MBA-Finance Track
MBA-Finance is a specialized track within the MBA program for students whose career choices require extensive finance training and preparation beyond the MBA foundation and core courses. For those students who seek preparation for investment management careers, we offer a select set of five courses, taken as a group, that provide the body of knowledge necessary to sit for the Level 1 exam that is part the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation. Students with career interests in other areas of finance may choose from these or other finance elective courses.
Students who are interested in the MBA-Finance track must designate this choice to their adviser prior to completing the Foundations for Effective Management core courses.
The MBA-Finance track program of study is listed below.
MBA/Finance Program of Study
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Course Work | ||
| MBA 601 | Foundations for Decision Making (MBA QUick Start) | 1 |
| Decision Making Tools: | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Managerial Economics (recommended for CFA candidates) | ||
| Information Systems Strategy | ||
| Business Decision Analysis | ||
| Decision Making and Strategic Integration (Part 1) | ||
| MBA 615 | Managing the Decision Making Process | 3 |
| Core Business Disciplines | ||
| MBA 620 | Financial and Managerial Accounting for Decision Making (AC 620) | 3 |
| MBA 625 | Organizational Behavior and Leadership for Decision Makers | 3 |
| MBA 635 | Decision Making for Business Operations | 3 |
| MBA 640 | Financial Decision Making | 3 |
| MBA 645 | Marketing Decision Making | 3 |
| MBA 660 | Decision Making in a Global Economy 1 | 3 |
| Finance Courses | ||
| Choose five courses from the following 3-credit courses: | 15 | |
| Financial Statement Analysis 2 | ||
| Risk Management | ||
| Global Investments Analysis 2 | ||
| Fixed Income Investments 2 | ||
| Emerging Financial Markets | ||
| Derivatives 2 | ||
| Portfolio Theory and Practice 2 | ||
| Cases in Corporate Finance | ||
| Issues in Equity Compensation | ||
| Trading and Exchanges | ||
| International Corporate Finance | ||
| Graduate Electives 3 | ||
| Complete one graduate finance or graduate business elective | 3 | |
| Decision Making and Strategic Integration (Part 2) | ||
| MBA 690 | Strategic Management Capstone | 3 |
| Total Credits | 46 | |
| 1 | Additional travel fee applies |
| 2 | Courses that apply toward the CFA® Body of Knowledge |
| 3 | BS/MBA students must complete MBA 688 as their elective |