Concentration in Management Science For Finance

Undergraduate Program: Curriculum: Degree Requirements: Management Concentrations:
Management Science For Finance

CM Courses

General Education Requirements

Management Foundation and Core

Management Concentrations

Schedules

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE FOR FINANCE CONCENTRATION (MS-F)
Six courses (18 credits)

Overview	This concentration provides the foundation for corporate problem solvers – financial and business analysts who use strong quantitative skills to identify profitable opportunities (at investment companies or in corporate finance departments); with more extensive coursework, MS-F concentrators can enter investment firms as quantitative analysts.

Career Paths	Graduates of the MS-F concentration will be ready to begin careers in providing quantitative support to finance departments of larger traditional companies as well as to commercial banks, investment banks, mutual fund companies, and more.

Advising Notes	This concentration is an interdisciplinary concentration, so students should seek guidance from both Finance and MSIS departmental advisors. Prerequisites for these courses are strictly enforced, so MS-F concentrators should plan their schedules carefully and early.

Take all three:

AF 325: Theory of Corporate Finance (prereq for AF 495)

AF 335: Investments (prereq for AF 495)

AF 495: Financial Policy

And at least two of the following:

MSIS 422: Decision Support Systems and Groupware

MSIS 452: Quality Management

MSIS 455: Decision Analysis

With additional choices:

AF 425: Topics in Corporate Financial Management

AF 426: Financial Modeling

AF 435: Derivative Securities

AF 445: Management of Financial Institutions

AF 455: International Financial Management

MSIS 309: and Programming for Managers

MSIS 427: Knowledge Management: Competing in the Knowledge Economy

MSIS 428: Information System Security

MSIS 450: Operations Management: Domestic and Global

MSIS 454: Supply Chain Management

MSIS 478*: Special Topics in Management Science and Information Systems

MSIS 480*: Internship

MGT 497*: Honors Seminar

* Students may count only one of MSIS 478, MGT 497, and MSIS 480 towards this concentration.

For More Information Contact:
Arindam Bandopadhyaya, Chair of the Accounting and Finance Department at 617.287.7854 or Jean Pierre Kuilboer, Chair of the Management Science and Information Systems Department at 617.287.7868.

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