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Mar 28, 2024
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2009-2010 Downtown Campus Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Finance MS
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Program Director: Associate Dean of Programs and Students
Telephone: 303-556-5804
Faculty
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Professors: |
Marcelle Arak, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Jean-Claude Bosch, PhD, University of Washington |
E. Woodrow Eckard, PhD, University of California-Los Angeles |
Richard Foster, PhD, University of Chicago |
James Morris, PhD, University of California-Berkeley |
Dean Taylor, PhD, University of Chicago |
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Associate Professors: |
Ajeyo Banerjee, PhD,University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Elizabeth Cooperman, PhD, University of Georgia |
Jian Yang, PhD, Texas A&M University |
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Senior Instructors: |
John Byrd, PhD, University of Oregon |
Chen Ji, MS, University of Colorado |
Barbara Pelter, PhD, University of California-Davis |
John Turner, PhD, St. Louis University |
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Instructors: |
John Daley, PhD, University of Washington |
Cindy Sutfin, MS, University of Colorado |
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The master of science in finance provides the necessary depth and specialized expertise to meet the need of businesses for financial managers, investment analysts and other finance specialists.
The program emphasizes a familiarity with the institutions in our financial system, an understanding of financial markets and instruments, and the analytical skills and tools necessary to make informed decisions about investment and financing.
The program is suited to students from a wide variety of undergraduate backgrounds and is particularly appropriate to students with strong technical and analytical backgrounds.
The MS in finance offers flexibility with on-campus and online courses. The MS finance degree requirements are met by the following courses and options:
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Total: 30 Hours
Prerequisites: BUSN 6550, Analyzing and Interpreting Accounting Information, or the equivalent accounting background. Students are also expected to be knowledgeable in spreadsheet software. Notes and Restrictions
Finance Electives. Choose three courses in finance from the list of regularly scheduled graduate classes in consultation with an advisor.
Free Elective. Students complete 3 semester hours of graduate business course work (excluding BUSN courses numbered below 6800). Modern finance is heavily mathematical and draws extensively on economics and accounting. Courses in these areas are especially useful. Petitions may be submitted to the program director for special courses that fit a student’s individual needs.
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