MFIN Degree Requirements

2026-2027

Prerequisites

These do not count toward the 30 credits needed for the MFIN degree.

ACCT 5010: Financial Accounting (can be waived)
FIN 5010: Fundamentals of Finance (can be waived)
BUSAD 5930: Business Specialty Masters Seminar (R credit. Completed in the first fall or spring of a student’s program)

Required core courses (18 credits)

FIN 4500: Analytical Finance
FIN 5100: Advanced Corporate Finance
FIN 5200: Investments: online summer
FIN 5300: Financial Analysis and Valuation
FIN 5340: Financial Derivatives
FIN 5500: Financial Econometrics

Elective courses (6 credits)

Choose 2 courses totaling 6 credits from the following elective course options.

FIN 5150: Case Studies in Finance
FIN 5260: Quantitative Investment Analysis
FIN 5320: Financial Markets and the Economy
FIN 5350: Venture Capital, Private Equity, and M&A
FIN 5720: Real Estate Finance
FIN 5740: Real Estate Investment
FIN 5760: Real Estate Market Analysis
ECON 5570: International Finance

Other elective options (6 credits required)

ACCT 5840*: Advanced Acct Information Systems
ACCT 5910: Fraud Examination and Prevention
ACCT 5920*: Financial Statement Analysis
ACCT 5960: International Accounting
ECON 3010*: Microeconomics or ECON 501: Microeconomics (4 credits)
ECON 3440: Public Finance
ECON 4160: Industrial Organization
ECON 4550*: International Trade
ECON 4660: Agricultural Finance
ECON 5320*: Managerial Economics
ECON 5570*: International (Macroeconomic) Finance
MIS 5330*: Data Management for Decision Makers
STAT 5147: Mathematical Statistics (4 credits)
STAT 5232: Empirical Methods for the Computational Sciences
STAT 5278*: Computer Processing for Scientific Data
STAT 5279*: Statistical Computing for Data Analysis
STAT 5540: Stochastic Process Models
STAT 5615: Methods for Time Series Data

*Recommended courses

More information about courses can be found in the university course catalog.