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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 | |||||||||||
| Corporate Financial Theory and Applications | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| Quantitative Tools for Finance | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| Investment Theory and Applications | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| Financial Statement Analysis | 1.5 | |||||||||||
| Communication Skills for Executives | 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. | |||||||||||||
| Advanced Corporate Financial Theory & ApplicationsMergers and Acquisitions | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| 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. |
| Advanced Investment Theory & Applications | 3.03 | |||||||||
| 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. |
| Financial Technology | 3.03 | |||||||||
| Fundamentals of Financial DerivativesAdvanced Managerial Finance | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| Data Analytics for FinanceAdvanced Investment Analysis | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| Debt Instruments and Markets |
| Special Topics in Business for Executives: Financial Engineering | 3.0 | |||||||||
Subtotal | 15 | ||||||||||||
Culminating Experience (3 credits) | 3|||||||||||||
| Perspectives on Global BusinessOptions Markets | 3.0 | |||||||||||
| showcourse-v Subtotal | CourseNumber 3 9893 | ||||||||||||
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| Discipline | FIN | 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. | 330 | ||||||||||
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Addendum: Courses open to students with permission, not to be included in the 30 credits of the program | |||
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| Graduate Internship Module I | 1. |
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Special Topics in Investments
| Graduate Internship Module II | 1.0 | ||
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| Graduate Internship Module III | 1. |
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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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Note: The program reserves the right to amend, modify, and change the courses offered and/or the sequence of courses. | ||
Degree Requirements
Students must earn 30 credits for the degree, maintain a cumulative 3.00 grade point average (GPA), and satisfy all Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, and Executive Programs policies, rules, and regulations.
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