Elective Courses

Pursuing a specialization track allows you to develop valuable expertise and become attractive to employers in a specific area of finance. You will be encouraged to pursue one of the following tracks (with related electives listed under each track):

Corporate Finance	Investment Management	Risk Management	Real Estate
Corporate II Mergers & Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts, Corporate Governance	Investments II Fixed Income Securities and Credit Risk	Risk Management I Corporate and Money-Manager Risk Management	Real Estate I Property Management, Property Law
Corporate III Spinoffs, Bankruptcy, Corporate Restructuring	Investments III Equity and Fixed-Income Portfolio Management	Risk Management II Applied Enterprise Risk Management	Real Estate II Real Estate Finance and Valuation, REITs
Corporate IV Action-based cases course, advanced topics	Student investment management	Derivatives II Advanced Derivatives Valuation, Financial Engineering	Financial Institutions
Entrepreneurial Finance	Trading and Markets	Trading and Markets	Entrepreneurial Finance
Private Equity	Legal Business Issues	Financial Institutions
Behavioral Finance	Derivatives II Advanced Derivatives Valuation, Financial Engineering	Insurance
International Finance	Behavioral Finance
Corporate Financial Reporting (AMIS)	Private Equity
Financial Statement Analysis (AMIS)	Corporate Financial Reporting (AMIS)
Accounting for Mergers & Acquisitions (AMIS)	Financial Statement Analysis (AMIS)

Students specializing in Investment Management will have the opportunity to participate in the Student Investment Management (SIM) program.

The Specialized Master in Finance program requires completion of 30 semester hours of elective coursework. Electives are taken together with MBA and other graduate students in Fisher College, thus offering SMF students an opportunity to interact and collaborate with students from a diverse set of educational backgrounds and professional experiences.

Students will also be encouraged to pursue the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) professional designations and can customize their program of studies to prepare themselves for these examinations.

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Elective Courses