Master of Finance
Optional Concentrations
Students are able to complete one of four available concentrations: capital markets, corporate finance, financial engineering, or impact finance. Completing a concentration is optional and is not a degree requirement. Students are only allowed to complete ONE concentration.
The concentration requirements are in addition to the MFin degree requirements. Courses counted toward your MFin degree requirements may not be counted toward your concentration, with the exception of 15.455 and 15.457 for the financial engineering concentration and 15.453 for the impact finance concentration.
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Financial Engineering
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Required
15.455: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Financial Engineering
15.457: Advanced Analytics of Finance
15.456: Financial Engineering
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Concentration Electives (choose 1)
15.235: Blockchain & Money
15.437: Options & Futures Markets
15.438: Fixed Income Securities & Derivatives
15.447: International Capital Markets
15.458: Financial Data Science and & Computing
15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance
15.467: Asset Mgmt, Lifecycle Investing & Retirement Finance
15.481: Financial Market Dynamics
15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning in Finance
Impact Finance
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Required
15.499: Social Impact Investing
15.453: Fin lab- impact related project
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Concentration Electives (choose 1)
15.431: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
15.456: Financial Engineering
15.482: Healthcare Finance
15.873: System Dynamics for Business and Policy
15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning
Capital Markets
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Concentration Electives (choose 2)
15.235: Blockchain & Money
15.437: Options & Futures Markets
15.438: Fixed Income Securities & Derivatives
15.447: International Capital Markets
15.456: Financial Engineering
15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance
15.467: Asset Mgmt, Lifecycle Investing & Retirement Finance
15.481: Financial Market Dynamics
Corporate Finance
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Concentration Electives (choose 2)
15.431: Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
15.434: Advanced Corporate Finance
15.436: Corporate Financial Strategy
15.437: Options & Futures Markets
15.445: Mergers, Acquisitions & PE
15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance
15.535: Business Analysis Using Financial Statements
15.482: Healthcare Finance
* As of Fall, 2023. Subject to changes.