Finance MS

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Program Director: Ajeyo Banerjee
Telephone: 303.315.8456

Faculty

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

Associate Professors:
Ajeyo Banerjee, PhD,University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Elizabeth Cooperman, PhD, University of Georgia
Jian Yang, PhD, Texas A&M University

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

Instructors:
John Daley, PhD, University of Washington
Cindy Sutfin, MS, University of Colorado

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:

Required Courses

BUSN 6620 - Applied Economics for Managers Summer 2010 Registration: BUSN 6620
BUSN 6640 - Financial Management Summer 2010 Registration: BUSN 6640
FNCE 6290 - Quantitative Methods for Finance Summer 2010 Registration: FNCE 6290
FNCE 6300 - Macroeconomics and Financial Markets Summer 2010 Registration: FNCE 6300
FNCE 6330 - Investment Management Analysis Summer 2010 Registration: FNCE 6330
FNCE 6380 - Futures and Options Summer 2010 Registration: FNCE 6380 or
FNCE 6382 - Survey of Financial Derivatives: Futures, Options and Swaps Summer 2010 Registration: FNCE 6382
FNCE Electives (3) (9 semester hours)
Free Elective (1) (3 semester hours)

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.