Undergraduate

15-3 Finance Electives Majors

15-3 Finance Electives
[Updated for Fall 2025]

15-3 Major Requirement:
Each student must take an additional seven subjects from the approved list of subjects below. At least of the electives must be in the area of Core Electives in Finance, and there must be at least five electives in total between the areas of Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance.

RESTRICTED ELECTIVES

Core Electives in Finance: (2-6)
15.4311    Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital (Fall)
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:
15.436    Corporate Financial Strategy (Fall)
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)
15.466    Functional and Strategic Finance (Spring)
15.467    Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing, and Retirement Finance (Spring)
15.481    Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior (Spring)
15.482    Healthcare Finance
15.483    Consumer Finance and FinTech (Fall)
15.497    FinTech Ventures (Fall)         
15.5181    Taxes and Business Strategy (Spring)
15.535    Business Analysis Using Financial Statements (Spring and Fall)
15.S08    Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance (Fall)

Non Finance Courses Subjects: 
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)
15.310    People, Teams, and Organizations (Fall)
15.312    Organizational Processes for Business Analytics (no longer being offered)