15-3 Finance Electives Minors

Updated for Spring 2026

15-3 Minor Requirement:
Each student must take two full subjects from the approved list of subjects below. A full subject is either 9 or 12 units. Two 6-unit subjects are counted as one full subject.

RESTRICTED ELECTIVES

• 15.4311 Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital (Fall)
• 15.4331 Financial Markets (Fall)
• 15.4341 Advance Corporate Finance (Fall)
• 15.436 Corporate Financial Strategy (Fall)
• 15.4371 Options and Future Markets (Spring)
• 15.4381 Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives (Spring)
• 15.4451 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Private Equity (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)
• 15.466 Functional and Strategic Finance (Spring)
• 15.476 Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing, and Retirement Finance (Spring)
• 15.481 Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior (Spring)
• 15.482 Healthcare Finance (Fall)
• 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.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)