Master of Finance

Optional Concentrations

MFin students can deepen their expertise by pursuing a concentration in one of five areas: Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Financial Engineering, Climate and Social Impact Finance, or FinTech. While concentrations are not required for graduation, they allow students to tailor their academic experience to specific career goals and areas of interest.

The concentration requirements are in addition to the MFin degree requirements. Courses used to fulfill MFin degree requirements cannot also count toward a concentration. The only exceptions are 15.455 and 15.457 for the Financial Engineering concentration, and 15.453 for the Climate and Social Impact Finance concentration.

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Capital Markets (CM)

  • Electives (Choose Two)

    15.235: Blockchain & Money [not offered in AY 25-26]

    15.434: Advanced Corporate Finance

    15.437: Options & Futures Markets

    15.438: Fixed Income Securities & Derivatives

    15.439: Quantitative Investment Management

    15.447: International Capital Markets

    15.456: Financial Engineering

    15.458: Financial Data Science & Computing

    15.465: Alphanomics

    15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance

    15.467: Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing & Retirement Finance

    15.481: Financial Market Dynamics & Human Behavior

    15.492: Crypto Finance

    15.C51: Modeling with Machine Learning: Financial Technology

    15.S03: AI and Money

    15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance

Climate and Social Impact Finance (CSIF)

  • Required

    15.453: Finance Lab; impact-related project

    15.499: Climate and Social Impact Investing

  • Electives (Choose One)

    15.035: Energy Market Dynamics in a Decarbonizing Economy

    15.431: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

    15.456: Financial Engineering

    15.482: Healthcare Finance [not offered in AY 25-26]

    15.873: System Dynamics for Business and Policy

    15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning in Finance

    SCM.290: Sustainable Supply Chain Management

    15.C51: Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems

Corporate Finance (CF)

  • Electives (Choose Two)

    15.431: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

    15.434: Advanced Corporate Finance

    15.436: Corporate Financial Strategy [not offered in AY 25-26]

    15.437: Options & Futures Markets

    15.445: Mergers, Acquisitions & PE

    15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance

    15.482: Healthcare Finance [not offered in AY 25-26]

    15.497: FinTech Ventures [approved only for Feb ’26 graduates]

    15.535: Business Analysis Using Financial Statements

    15.665: Power and Negotiation [approved only for Feb ’26 graduates]

Financial Engineering (FE)

  • Required

    15.455: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Financial  Engineering

    15.456: Financial Engineering

    15.457: Advanced Analytics of Finance

  • Electives (Choose One)

    15.095: Machine Learning Under a Modern Optimization Lens

    15.235: Blockchain & Money [not offered AY 25-26]

    15.437: Options & Futures Markets

    15.438: Fixed Income Securities & Derivatives

    15.447: International Capital Markets

    15.458: Financial Data Science & Computing

    15.466: Functional & Strategic Finance

    15.467: Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing & Retirement Finance

    15.470J: Asset Pricing

    15.481: Financial Market Dynamics & Human Behavior

    15.773: Hands-On Deep Learning

    15.C51: Modeling with Machine Learning: Financial Technology

    15.S03: AI and Money

    15.S06: AI and Machine Learning Research in Finance

    15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics & Machine Learning in Finance

    6.7900: Machine Learning

FinTech (FT)

  • Required

    15.483 Consumer Finance and FinTech

  • Electives (Choose One)

    15.235: Blockchain and Money [not offered AY 25-26]

    15.390: New Enterprises

    15.431: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital

    15.456: Financial Engineering

    15.466: Functional and Strategic Finance

    15.467: Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing, and Retirement Finance

    15.492: Crypto Finance

    15.497: FinTech Ventures

    15.561: Digital Revolution: From Foundations to Future Trends

    15.783J: Product Design and Development

    15.S03: AI and Money

    15.S08: Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance

* As of Spring, 2025. Subject to changes.