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This bulletin is the official Baruch College Graduate Bulletin that all students should reference – do not reference the bulletin listed on the website of CUNY’s University Registrar. For curriculum questions, please contact the Dean’s Office of the applicable school.

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Required Core Courses (12 Credits)

The required courses include topics in capital budgeting, capital structure, valuation, statistics, investment management and evaluation, regression analysis, value at risk, quantitative methods, portfolio theory, money and capital markets, financial statement analysis, fixed income analysis, and corporate diversification.

Course

Title

Credits

FIN 9771

Corporate Financial Theory and Applications

3

FIN 9772

Quantitative Tools for Finance

3

FIN 9773

Investment Theory and Applications

3

FIN 9895

Special Topics in Corporate Finance: Financial Statement Analysis I

1.5

FIN 9895

Special Topics in Corporate Finance: Financial Statement Analysis II

1.5

 

Subtotal

12

Elective Courses (15 credits)

These courses are selected by the program Academic Director and Curriculum Committee from the graduate business courses that are offered in the Zicklin School of Business.  Shown here are courses that have been offered in recent years.  This list may be modified from year to year to reflect developments in the field and topics of current interest.

In addition to traditional courses, these may include special topics courses that are designed for particular cohorts. Special topics courses may be offered more than once in the same cohort, as long as the topic is different.

FIN 9759 9759

Mergers and Acquisitions

3

FIN 9790 9790

Seminar in Finance: Fin Tech Business Strategies

Designed by a CIS professor for the EMSF program, this course introduces students to technical concepts and applications from an information systems approach and offers them foundational knowledge of fin tech that enables them to understand the “why” and “how” of fin tech applications they see in the financial markets.

3

FIN 9790 9790

Seminar in Finance: Fundamentals of Financial Derivatives

This course covers trading strategies, pricing models, and valuation concepts of derivatives, ranging from forwards and futures, to swaps and options.

3

FIN 9792 9792

Advanced Managerial Finance

3

FIN 9793 9793

Advanced Investment Analysis

3

FIN 9795 9795

Debt Instruments and Markets

3

FIN 9797 9797

Options Markets

3

FIN 9893 

Special Topics in Investments: Financial Engineering

Designed by a professor of mathematics for the EMSF program, this course introduces students to concepts of financial engineering that build on their prior courses in the program to illustrate the power and potential for combining existing securities into new ones with unique payoff structures, and trading strategies firmly grounded in arbitrage concepts.

3

FIN 9891

Special Topics in Investments

1.5

FIN 9893

Special Topics in Investments

3

FIN 9895 9895

Special Topics in Corporate Finance

1.5

FIN 9897 9897

Special Topics in Corporate Finance

3

 

Subtotal

15

Culminating Experience (3 credits)

Seminar in Finance: International Business Consulting Practicum

3

 

Subtotal

3

Total for Program

30

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