Undergraduate

15-3 Finance Electives - Majors

Updated for Fall 2026 - Spring 2027

15-3 Major Requirement: Seven full subjects* from the approved list of Restricted Electives. At least two of the subjects must be in the area of Core Electives in Finance, and there must be at least five full subjects in total between the areas of Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance (*Full Subject = 9 or 12 unit class. Two 6-unit classes (half course) are counted as one full subject).

CORE ELECTIVES IN FINANCE (2-6 Full Subjects):  
(minimum of two Core Electives in Finance. minimum of five subjects between Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance)

  • 15.4311 Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital (Fall and Spring)
  • 15.4331 Financial Markets (Fall)
  • 15.4341 Advance Corporate Finance (Fall)
  • 15.4371 Options and Future Markets (Spring)
  • 15.4381 Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives (Spring)
  • 15.4451 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Private Equity (Spring)

TOPICS IN FINANCE (1-5 Full Subjects):  
(minimum of five subjects between Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance)

  • 15.439 Quantitative Investment Management (Spring)
  • 15.446 Public versus Private Capital Markets (Spring)
  • 15.450 Analytics of Finance (Fall)
  • 15.456 Financial Engineering (Fall)
  • 15.457 Advanced Analytics of Finance (Fall)
  • 15.458 Financial Data Science and Computing (Spring)
  • 15.465 Alphanomics: A New Approach to Security Analysis (Spring)
  • 15.480 Science and Business of BioTechnology (Spring)
  • 15.482 Healthcare Finance (Spring)
  • 15.483 Consumer Finance and FinTech (Fall)
  • 15.492 Blockchain, Crypto Finance, & Money (half subject. Spring)
  • 15.497 FinTech Ventures (Fall)         
  • 15.5181 Taxes and Business Strategy (Spring)
  • 15.521 Accounting Information for Decision Makers (half subject. Fall and Spring)
  • 15.535 Business Analysis Using Financial Statements (Fall and Spring)
  • 15.C51 Modeling with Machine Learning: Financial Technology (half subject. Spring)
  • 15.S07 Private Equity and Hedge Fund Long-Term Investing (half subject.Fall)
  • 15.S08 Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance (Fall)
  • 15.S16 Disrupting Wholesale Finance: The Rise of Alternative Firms and What’s Next? (half subject. Spring)

NON-FINANCE COURSES (0-2 Full Subjects):  
(maximum of two Non Finance courses)

  • 15.053 Optimization Methods in Business Analytics (Spring)
  • 15.7611 Introduction to Operations Management (Spring)
  • 15.8141 Marketing Innovation (Spring)
  • 15.9001 Competitive Strategy (Spring)
  • 15.301 People, Teams, and Organizations Laboratory (Fall)
  • 15.777 Healthcare Lab (Fall)
  • 15.830 Enterprise Management Lab (Fall)