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The Master of Science in Finance (MSF)

Program Requirements

 

Tools (Prerequisite) Courses

 

It is expected that the following tools courses have been completed as prerequisites to the MSF courses. These prerequisites can be waived for students who have completed equivalent courses in either an undergraduate program or a graduate program that is AACSB accredited. A course will be waived only if it has been completed with a grade of A or B within five years of entering the MSF program.

ACG 6025       Financial Accounting (2)
ACG 6075       Managerial Accounting and Control (2)
ECO 6114       Managerial Economics (2)
ECO 6204       Global Economic Environment of Business (2)
FIN 6406         Financial Management (2)
QMB 6305      Managerial Decision Analysis (2)

MSF Curriculum (credit hours are noted in parentheses)  

 

Core Economics (6 hours)

ECO 6115       Microeconomics (3)

ECO 6205       Macroeconomics (3) or ECO 6206 Aggregate Economics (3)
 

Core Statistics (6 hours)
            ECO 6936       Mathematical Economics (3)
            ECO 6424       Econometrics I (3)


 

Core Finance (12 hours)

FIN 6416        Advanced Financial Management (3)

FIN 6515        Investments (3)

FIN 6804        Theory of Finance (3)

FIN 6445        Financial Policy (3)—must taken at the end of the program after the other core courses are completed

 

Core finance courses may be waived for students who graduated with finance majors from AACSB accredited programs within five years of entering the MSF program. Only courses with the same content as the core finance courses can be used to satisfy the MSF course requirements, and students must have earned grades of A or B to have such courses waived. Advanced finance elective courses with the same total credit hours must be substituted for waived courses.

 

Advanced Finance Electives (6 hours)

Students can select any two of the following courses:

FIN 6246        Advanced Money and Capital Markets (3)

FIN 6326        Bank Management (3)

FIN 6418        Working Capital Management (3)

FIN 6605        International Finance (3)

FIN 6934        Financial Statement Analysis (3)

FIN 6934        Financial Options and Futures (3)

FIN 6934        Selected Topics in Finance (3)

 

Total program (30 hours)

To be granted an MSF degree, a student must have completed all of the required courses with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

 

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