Finance Concentration
Every business depends on sound financial management. Build the foundational skill set needed for a successful career.
Is your future in financial management, government finance, insurance or real estate? Do you aspire to be CFO or CEO, and manage your business to success? Are you ready to manage money for personal investors or large institutions? Do you have the aptitude and fortitude to succeed in high-stakes equity and venture capital?
Be Career Ready
- Learn the principles of investment decision-making, valuation and trading, and immediately put them into action
- Explore where finance meets law in electives like financial policy and strategy, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions
- Acquire competencies in risk diversification and portfolio theory, and programming complex models for decision-making
- Prepare for a quantitative finance career with electives in equity, bond and derivative markets in a curriculum built on advanced mathematics, finance and statistics
- Gain a comprehensive view of global economics and international finance for a career that can cross borders
Customize your MBA finance interest and increase your marketability by choosing a secondary concentration like analytics or management consulting. Pair finance with your engineering, law or health care dual degree to be better equipped in the business side of your industry.
Curriculum (15 credits)
Required Course (3 credits)
Availability varies by semester.
- MGF 633 Investment Management (3 credits)
Electives (12 credits)
Choose 4 electives below (12 credits). Availability varies by semester.
- MGF 632 Corporate Governance and Finance (3 credits)
- MGF 634 Quantitative Methods in Finance (3 credits)
- MGF 635 Financial Derivatives (3 credits)
- MGF 636 Complex Financial Instruments (3 credits)
- MGF 637 Financial Modeling (3 credits)
- MGF 638 Fixed Income Securities (3 credits)
- MGF 639 Security Training (3 credits)
- MGF 641 Financial Policies and Strategies (3 credits)
- MGF 644 Supervised Research: Fixed Income (3 credits)
- MGF 645 Supervised Research: Equities (3 credits)
- MGF 657 Financial Innovation (3 credits)
- MGF 658 M&A Strategy/Financial (3 credits)
- MGF 661 Management of Financial Institutions (3 credits)
- MGF 675 Multinational Banking & Finance (3 credits)
- MGF 685 International Finance Management (3 credits)
- MGF 696 Portfolio Theory and Strategy (3 credits)
- MGA 632 Financial Statement Analysis (3 credits)
- MGE 602 Global Economics (3 credits)
Review course descriptions in the Graduate Catalog.
Terese Kelly Investment Group
This isn’t practice.
The money is real.
The investors are serious.
The decisions are yours.
Financial Management Association
Broaden your exposure to real-world finance with speakers, networking events and investment games.
