Undergraduate
15-3 Finance: Major Requirements
Major Requirements (Updated for Fall 2023)
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5-6 Required Subjects
Managerial Finance: 15.417 [LAB. CI-M] or 15.401 [students who take 15.401 must take 15.418]
Corporate Finance: 15.418 [LAB. CI-M] or 15.402 [students who take 15.402 must take 15.417]
Communication (optional): 15.276 [CI-M] or 15.279 [CI-M] [students who take either 15.401 or 15.402 must take 15.276 or 15.279]
Accounting: 15.501
Microeconomics: 14.01 [HASS] or 15.0111
Probability and Statistics: 15.069 or 18.05 or 14.30 [all RESTs] (Updated requirement for Fall 2022)
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7 Required Subjects
Each student must take an additional seven full subjects from the approved list of Restricted Electives. At least two 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.
*A full subject is either 9 or 12 units. A half subject is 6 units.
Special Note For Classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024:
You can choose to either fulfill the updated requirements (listed above) or the previous requirements. Please contact the Sloan Undergraduate Office (ugeducation [at] sloan.mit.edu) to discuss your specific situation and which option makes the most sense for you.
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