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CURRICULUM

Both the Corporate Finance and Quantitative Finance tracks fuse mathematical tools with a strategic understanding of business decision-making.

In the Corporate Finance & Investments track, students take a significant amount of course work alongside finance-oriented MBA students. In the Quantitative Finance track, students take courses to develop a skill set similar to a Financial Engineering program while still including course work in corporate finance, investments and financial markets.

Depending on their academic background, students in either track may be required to enroll in foundation courses upon entering the MS/Finance program in August:

FIN 510 Introduction to Finance (2 credits)
ACCT 560 Introduction to Financial Accounting (2 credits)
ACCT 562 Intermediate Accounting (2 credits)

CORPORATE FINANCE & INVESTMENTS COURSES
Fall Semester (15 credits)
Fall A	Fall B
FIN 500J Mathematical Foundations for Finance (1.5)	FIN 538 Stochastic Foundations (1.5)
FIN 532 Investment Theory (1.5)	FIN 532B Data Analysis For Investments (1.5)
FIN 527 Financial Markets (1.5)	FIN 521 Financial Intermediation (1.5)
Acct 503 Business Analysis - Financial Statements (1.5)	ACCT 503B Adv. Business Analysis -Financial Statements (1.5)
MGT 537 Invest In Your Career (0)
MEC 537 Data Analysis, Forecasting and Risk Analysis
Spring Semester (15 credits)
Spring A	Spring B
FIN 534 Adv. Corporate Finance I - Valuation (1.5)	FIN 534B Adv. Corporate Finance II - Financing (1.5)
FIN 525 Fixed Income Securities (1.5)	FIN 523B Mergers & Acquisitions (1.5)
FIN 524 Options & Futures (1.5)	FIN 524B Derivative Securities (1.5)
Choose one of:	Choose one of:
ACCT 500G Analysis of Financial Institutions & Financial Instruments (1.5) OR	FIN 531 Venture Capital & Private Equity (1.5) or
ACCT 507/FIN 536 Accounting Issues in Leasing (1.5)	MEC 540 Money, Capital Markets & Economic Growth (1.5)
FIN 528 Investments Praxis (3)
30 CREDITS TOTAL
Academic Director – Todd Milbourn

Course substitutions are available to further tailor this track to your specific career goals. Permission of the academic director is required.

ACCT 502 Managerial Control Systems (1.5)
FIN 530 International Finance (1.5)
FIN 533 Real Option Valuation (1.5)
FIN 534C Adv. Corporate Finance III-Frontiers of Valuation (1.5)
FIN 537 Advanced Derivative Securities (3)
FIN 549H Special Topics: Real Estate Finance (1.5)
FIN 500P Computer Programming for Quantitative Finance (3)
FIN 500R Risk Management (3)
MEC 500J Markets, Business, and the Environment (1.5)
MEC 538 Economics of the Organization (1.5)
MEC 538B Compensation, Incentives & Organization (1.5)
MEC 592 Competitive Industry Analysis (3)

QUANTITATIVE FINANCE COURSES
First Fall Semester (15 Credits)
Fall A	Fall B
FIN 524 Options & Futures (1.5)	FIN 524B Derivative Securities (1.5)
FIN 532 Investment Theory (1.5)	FIN 538 Stochastic Foundations (1.5)
FIN 527 Financial Markets (1.5)	FIN 550 Numerical Methods & Optimization (1.5)
MGT 537 Invest in Your Career (0)
MEC 537 Data Analysis, Forecasting and Risk Analysis (3)
FIN 500P Computer Programming for Quantitative Finance (3)
Spring Semester (15 Credits)
Spring A	Spring B
FIN 525 Fixed Income Securities (1.5)	FIN 551 Adv. Credit Risk Modeling (1.5)
FIN 534 Adv. Corporate Finance I - Valuation (1.5)	FIN 534 Adv. Corporate Finance II - Financing (1.5)
FIN 537 Advanced Derivative Securities (3)
FIN 539 Mathematical Finance (3)
FIN 500Q Risk Management (3)
Second Fall Semester (9 credits)
Fall A	Fall B
FIN 500K Finance Consulting Seminar (1.5)	FIN 533 Real Option Valuation (1.5)
FIN 552 Fixed Income Derivatives (1.5)	FIN 532B Data Analysis for Investments (1.5)
FIN 500R Topics in Quantitative Finance (3)
39 CREDITS TOTAL
Academic Director - Hong Liu, PhD