Master of Finance
Optional Concentrations
Students are able to complete one of four available concentrations: financial engineering, impact finance, capital markets, or corporate finance. Completing a concentration is optional and is not a degree requirement. Students are only allowed to complete ONE concentration.
The Impact Finance concentration is a new addition to the MFin program. This concentration will be available starting in July, 2021. In addition to core courses in Social Impact Investing and a Fin-Lab impact-focused project, there will be an opportunity to take an elective from several course offerings. Students can supplement academic coursework with clubs, centers, and initiatives. A sampling of these activities includes:
- Mi3 - MIT Impact Investing Initiative
- MIT Sustainability Initiative
- MIT Legatum Center
- MIT Net Impact
- MIT Energy Initiative
- MIT Solve
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.
Financial Engineering
-
Required
15.455: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Financial Engineering
15.457: Advanced Analytics of Finance
15.456: Financial Engineering*
*15.470 Asset Pricing can be taken in place of 15.456: Financial Engineering.
-
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
Impact Finance
-
Required
15.499: Social Impact Investing
15.453: Fin lab- impact related project
-
Concentration Electives (choose 1)
15.431: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
15.456: Financial Engineering
15.482: Healthcare Finance
15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning
15.873: System Dynamics for Business and Policy
Capital Markets
-
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
-
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