Course | Title | Credits |
Required for all MS Students* |
| Business Communication I | 1.5 credits |
or |
Program specific, 1.5 credit equivalent business communication instruction approved by the Graduate Curriculum Committee. |
Preliminary Courses (0-12 Credits)** Students with appropriate academic background will be able to reduce the number of credits in preliminary requirements. |
| Financial Accounting | 3 credits |
| Fundamentals of Microeconomics | 1.5 credits |
| Fundamentals of Macroeconomics | 1.5 credits |
| Introduction to Quantitative Tools for Finance | 3 credits |
| Financial Decision Making | 3 credits |
Required Courses (9 credits) |
| Corporate Financial Theory and Applications | |
or | | |
| Managerial Finance* | 3 credits |
| Quantitative Tools for Finance | |
or | | |
| Econometrics: Theory and Applications I* | 3 credits |
| Investment Theory and Applications | |
or | | |
| Investment Analysis* | 3 credits |
*Not open to students in the cohort format. |
Electives (21 credits)***
|
| Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy | 3 credits |
| Econometrics - Theory and Applications II | 3 credits |
| Technical Analysis | 3 credits |
| Mergers and Acquisitions | 3 credits |
| Entrepreneurial Finance | 3 credits |
| Real Estate Finance | 3 credits |
| Futures and Forward Markets | 3 credits |
| Management of Financial Institutions | 3 credits |
| Financial Markets and Intermediaries | 3 credits |
| International Finance Markets | 3 credits |
| International Corporate Finance | 3 credits |
| Equity Markets: Trading and Structure | 3 credits |
| Seminar in Finance | 3 credits |
| Advanced Managerial Finance | 3 credits |
| Advanced Investment Analysis | 3 credits |
| Debt Instruments and Markets | 3 credits |
| Options Markets | 3 credits |
| Classical Foundations of Financial Risk Management | 1.5 credits |
| Measurement and Management of Market Risk I | 1.5 credits |
| Measurement and Management of Market Risk II | 1.5 credits |
| Measurement and Management of Credit Risk I | 1.5 credits |
| Measurement and Management of Credit Risk II | 1.5 credits |
| Measurement and Management of Risks in Operations and Information Technology | 1.5 credits |
| Measurement and Management of Risks in Investments | 1.5 credits |
| Implications of Corporate Governance, Regulation, and Ethics of Risk Management | 1.5 credits |
| International Finance Markets | 1.5 credits |
| Debt Securities | 1.5 credits |
| Futures and Forwards | 1.5 credits |
| Options | 1.5 credits |
| Venture Capital | 1.5 credits |
| Special Topics in Investments | 1 credit |
| Special Topics in Investments | 1.5 credits |
| Special Topics in Investments | 2 credits |
| Special Topics in Investments | 3 credits |
| Special Topics in Corporate Finance | 1 credit |
| Special Topics in Corporate Finance | 1.5 credits |
| Special Topics in Corporate Finance | 2 credits |
| Special Topics in Corporate Finance | 3 credits |
| Risk Management in Financial Institutions | 3 credits |
*Effective spring 2016. **Effective for students admitted as of fall 2015. ***Elective courses to be selected by the Department of Economics and Finance from the above list for students in the cohort format. |