Master of Finance
Optional Concentrations
Students are able to complete one of three available concentrations: capital markets, corporate finance or financial engineering. 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 FE Concentration, courses taken to satisfy a concentration cannot be counted towards the MFin Degree Requirements.
Financial Engineering
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Required
15.455: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Financial Engineering
15.457: Advanced Analytics of Finance
15.4 56: Financial Engineering*
*15.470 Asset Pricing can be taken in place of 15.456: Financial Engineering.
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Concentration Electives (choose 1)
15.437: Options & Futures Markets
15.438: Fixed Income Securities & Derivatives
15.447: International Capital Markets
15.459: Financial Data Science & Computing II
15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning in Finance
15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance
15.467: Asset Mgmt, Lifecycle Investing & Retirement Finance
15.481: Financial Market Dynamics
Capital Markets
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Concentration Electives (choose 2)
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