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)