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As a finance PhD student at Chicago Booth, you’ll join a community that encourages you to think independently.
Taking courses at Booth and in the university’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, you will gain a solid foundation in all aspects of economics and finance--from the factors that determine asset prices to how firms and individuals make financial decisions. Following your coursework, you will develop your research in close collaboration with faculty and your fellow students. Reading groups and workshops with faculty, student-led brown-bag seminars, and conferences provide many opportunities to learn from others.
The Finance PhD Program also offers the Joint Program in Financial Economics , which is run by Chicago Booth and the Department of Economics in the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
Chicago Booth finance faculty are leading researchers who also build strong relationships with doctoral students, collaborate on new ideas, and connect students with powerful career opportunities.
Assistant Professor of Finance and Liew Family Junior Faculty Fellow, Fama Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Finance and MV Advisors Faculty Fellow
Leo Melamed Professor of Finance
Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Neubauer Family Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago Departments of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business
Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance
Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Kessenich E.P. Faculty Director at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance
AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Assistant Professor of Finance and Cohen and Keenoy Faculty Scholar
Neubauer Family Associate Professor of Finance and Kathryn and Grant Swick Faculty Scholar
Charles P. McQuaid Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy
Assistant Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow
Deputy Dean for Faculty and Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance
Myron S. Scholes Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Neubauer Faculty Director of the Davis Center
Associate Professor of Finance
Associate Professor of Finance and FMC Faculty Scholar
Assistant Professor of Finance
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
Graduates of the Stevens Doctoral Program go on to successful careers in prominent institutions of higher learning, leading financial institutions, government, and beyond.
Assistant Professor of Finance UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles Shohini Kundu's research lies in financial intermediation and macroeconomics, security design and externalities of financial contracts, and emerging market finance. Her dissertation area is in finance.
Assistant Professor of Business, Finance Division Columbia Business School, Columbia University Jane's research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. She is particularly interested in how financial intermediaries affect the real economy and how different types of financial institutions can contribute to financial instability. Her dissertation area is in financial economics.
The pages of Chicago Booth Review regularly highlight the research findings of finance faculty and PhD students.
Chicago Booth’s Eugene F. Fama describes the serendipitous events that led him to Chicago, and into his monumental career in academic finance.
It was a dramatic example of how White House communications on climate policy can affect asset prices, according to Washington University in St. Louis’s William Cassidy, a recent graduate of Booth’s PhD Program.
It’s become harder for many prospective borrowers to access capital. But private debt funds have stepped in to fill the gap, according to Joern Block (Trier University), Booth PhD candidate Young Soo Jang, Booth’s Steve Kaplan, and Trier’s Anna Schulze.
While go-betweens can benefit the broader economy by smoothing the flow of credit, there are now probably too many links in the credit chain, argue Zhiguo He and Jian Li (Booth PhD graduate).
Chicago Booth is home to several interdisciplinary research centers that offer funding for student work, host workshops and conferences, and foster a strong research community.
Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance Tasked with pushing the boundaries of research in finance, the Fama-Miller Center provides institutional structure and support for researchers in the field.
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Bringing together researchers from the entire Chicago economics community, the Becker Friedman Institute fosters novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems.
Center for Research in Security Prices CRSP maintains one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive stock market databases. Since 1963, it has been a valued resource for businesses, government, and scholars.
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets Enhancing the understanding of business and financial market globalization, the Clark Center positions Chicago Booth as a thought leader in the understanding of ever-changing markets and improves financial and economic decision-making around the world.
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State Dedicated to examining issues at the intersection of politics and the economy, the Stigler Center supports research by PhD students and others who are interested in the political, economic, and cultural obstacles to better working markets.
Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation Committed to making the world more equitable and sustainable, the Rustandy Center works to solve complex social and environmental problems. The center’s student support includes fellowships, research funding, and networking opportunities.
For Itzhak Ben-David, PhD ’08, the PhD Program in Finance was an exploratory journey.
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Itzhak Ben-David, ’08: 00:03 For me, the PhD Program was an exploratory journey. It was about discovering what was interesting for me, what will be interesting for other economists. It was about discovering something new about the world. Much of the PhD Program experience is to explore and to wonder a bit and to just think and expose yourself to new ideas and new disciplines. Back then, this was 2006, I found a billboard that said, "If you buy this house, we're going to give you a free car or $20,000 in cash." And this seemed really odd to me. What I realized that was going on, that this was part of a borrower fraud and the idea was that seller and the buyer will agree on a higher price on a house and the lender would be under the impression that the collateral worth more than it really is.
Itzhak Ben-David, ’08: 00:58 So I started to investigate other parts of the real estate food chain. What I saw is that in many parts of this chain, there were incentives in place pushing the intermediaries or the different economic agents to inflate prices. It's not always a bubble, but oftentimes it points out behavior that is not consistent with our textbook behavior. I had the dream team of advisors, Toby Moskowitz, Dick Taylor, Steve Levitt, and Erik Hurst. Each one of them contributed in different way to my dissertation and brought different ideas, brought different aspects. There is no better place of doing research than in Booth. It's really a hub of academic activity. There is no important work that doesn't pass at Chicago before being published. It's really an intellectual home. When you meet people and you know that they are from Booth, you can see the difference in their thinking.
PhD students in finance study a wide range of topics, including the behavior and determinants of security prices, the financing and investment decisions of firms, corporate governance, and the management and regulation of financial institutions. They go on to careers at prestigious institutions, from Yale University to the International Monetary Fund.
Current Students
Rahul Chauhan Ching-Tse Chen Aditya Dhar Mihir Gandhi Huan (Bianca) He Piotr Langer Jessica Li Edoardo Marchesi Rayhan Momin Lauren Mostrom Meichen Qian Francisco Ruela Sixun Tang Hui (Judy) Yue
Booth also offers joint degrees. Learn more about the current students in our Joint Program in Financial Economics .
The Stevens Doctoral Program at Chicago Booth is a full-time program. Students generally complete the majority of coursework and examination requirements within the first two years of studies and begin work on their dissertation during the third year. For details, see General Examination Requirements by Area in the Stevens Program Guidebook below.
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“Welcome to UCLA Anderson’s Finance area, long recognized as one of the world’s top programs. Our Ph.D. students work with renowned faculty whose expertise covers corporate finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, derivatives, investments and behavioral finance. The UCLA Anderson Doctoral Program is highly selective. We expect you to develop a passion and tenacity for excellent research in finance and, through mentorship and collaboration, we prepare you for a distinguished academic career. We look forward to receiving your application.”
Barney Hartman-Glaser Professor of Finance
Recent publications.
Risk and Return in Segmented Markets with Expertise Andrea Eisfeldt
Complex assets appear to earn persistent high average returns, and to display high Sharpe ratios – but investor participation is very limited. Eisfeldt, along with co-authors Hanno Lustig and Lei Zhang, provides an explanation for these facts using a model of the pricing of complex securities by risk-averse investors who are subject to asset-specific risk in a dynamic model of industry equilibrium.
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Learning Millennial Style Bruce Carlin
The growing use of online educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. Here, Carlin – with co-authors Li Jiang and Stephen A. Spiller – characterizes how video content affects individual decision-making and willingness to share in the context of a personal financial decision.
Volatility Managed Portfolios Tyler Muir
Managed portfolios that take less risk when volatility is high produce large, positive alphas and increase factor Sharpe ratios by substantial amounts. Muir, together with co-author Alan Moreira, documents a profitable trading strategy that increases stock market exposure in low volatility episodes and reduces exposure in high volatility times.
First academic placement: NYU Stern
In 2016, Robert Richmond earned the Conference on International Finance Best Paper Award (2016), the Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research and the Xavier Drèze award for most outstanding Ph.D. research paper. His current research uncovers an economic source of exposure to global risk that drives international asset prices.
First academic placement: UT Austin
Mindy Zhang is recipient of the 2014 Trefftzs Award for Best Student Paper, WFA; and the 2014 Yihong Xia Best Paper Award, CICF. She conducts research on macro finance, equilibrium asset pricing, dynamic contracting, dynamic corporate theory, labor and finance.
First academic placement: University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Recipient of numerous honors and awards, Tobias "Toby" Moskowitz is one of UCLA Anderson's Inspirational 100 alumni. Moskowitz was named the inaugural Dean Takahashi '80 B.A., '83 M.P.P.M. Professor of Finance at Yale School of Management in 2016. He was previously the Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he had taught since 1998. In 2011, he co-authored the best-selling book Scorecasting , which uses economic principles to explain the hidden side of sports.
First academic placement: University of Michigan Business School
Joshua Coval's current research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on ratings and unsound pricing models led to the spectacular rise and collapse thereof. His research awards include the 2000 and 2005 Smith-Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance . His research has been featured in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Time, Money Magazine and Financial Times .
Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, William Sharpe was mentored at UCLA by the late Professor J. Fred Weston. Sharpe was one of the originators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model and developed the Sharpe Ratio for investment performance analysis. He co-founded the independent investment advisory firm Financial Engines.
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Finance Doctoral students are trained in major areas in finance and economics, including, asset pricing, corporate finance, continuous-time models in finance, information economics, international finance, market micro-structure, and banking. The program prepares students for careers in scholarly research, and graduates take jobs primarily in academic or research institutions, while some students opt to work in industry. Details about the coursework and research students conduct on their way to earning their doctorate can be found on the Academics page.
The Finance Division at Columbia Business school has a track record of training scholars who go on to become academics at Universities, including many of the world’s most prestigious institutions. Our placement success is due in part to the close working relationship that students develop with the faculty in the division. The School intentionally keeps the PhD program small making it easier for students to find faculty collaborators and thrive. See our Placement page for more information.
The Columbia Business School doctoral community consists of 125 students across six programs. The program attracts exceptional students from all over the world who are looking to develop research skills under the tutelage of faculty experts. Students come to the School for the exceptional training but also because they value the diversity, creativity, entrepreneurship and social tolerance that NYC offers. See here for more about student life.
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The department prepares students for careers in research and teaching at the world’s leading academic institutions, focusing on Asset Pricing and Portfolio Management, Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Institutions and Macroeconomics.
Wharton’s Finance faculty, widely recognized as the finest in the world, has been at the forefront of several areas of research. For example, members of the faculty have led modern innovations in theories of portfolio choice and savings behavior, which have significantly impacted the asset pricing techniques used by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. Another example is the contribution by faculty members to the analysis of financial institutions and markets, which is fundamental to our understanding of the trade-offs between economic systems and their implications for financial fragility and crises.
Faculty research, both empirical and theoretical, includes such areas as:
For information on courses and sample plan of study, please visit the University Graduate Catalog .
Visit the Finance website for details on program requirements and courses. Read faculty and student research and bios to see what you can do with a Finance PhD.
Finance Doctoral Coordinator Prof. Luke Taylor John B. Neff Associate Professor in Finance, Professor of Finance Co-Director, Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Email: [email protected] Phone: (215) 898-4802
I. preparation.
The study of financial economics requires a grasp of several types of basic mathematics. Students must enter with or very quickly acquire knowledge of the concepts and techniques of:
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It is strongly advised that students without a strong and recent background in calculus, linear algebra, or statistics come to Stanford in June to take courses to strengthen any weak areas.
Computer programming skills are necessary in coursework (as early as the first quarter of the first year) and in research. If students do not have adequate computer programming skills, they may wish to take a computer programming course before they arrive at Stanford, or take an appropriate Stanford computer science course while here.
All required courses must be taken for a grade (not pass/fail or credit/no credit). Exceptions are made if the required course is offered pass/fail or credit/no credit only. Each course must be passed with a grade of P or B- or better. Substitutions of required courses require approval from the faculty liaison. Waiving a course requirement based on similar doctoral level course completed elsewhere requires the approval of the course instructor, faculty liaison, and the PhD Program Office.
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Finance Specialization Requirements (2 Courses) | Students specialize in one of two tracks in finance research.
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General Field Methods (4 courses) | Students choose a minimum of two 2-course sequences from the alternative fields listed below. Courses may not be used to fulfill two general fields. In many cases, students interested in the field will want to take more than two of the suggested course in the field.
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Students are required to sign up for either a research or teaching practicum each quarter of enrollment. Below is a description of the practicum requirements for Finance students.
During the student’s first year, the student will be assigned each quarter to work with a different faculty member. This assignment will involve mentoring and advising from the faculty member and RA work from the student. The purpose of new assignments each quarter is to give the student exposure to a number of different faculty members.
In subsequent years, the practicum will take the form of a research or teaching mentorship, where the student is expected to provide research or teaching support under the guidance and advice of a faculty member. Faculty assignments here will be made through informal discussions between faculty and students, and may be quarterly, or for the entire year.
For students of all years, one requirement to satisfy the practicum is that students regularly attend the Finance seminar. The only exception to this will be if there is a direct and unavoidable conflict between the seminar and necessary coursework.
All students in all years are expected to complete a research paper over the summer, and present this paper in the Fall quarter. A draft of this research paper should be submitted by the end of September to the field liaison. Students can continue to work on and improve their paper up to their presentation.
For students completing their first year, the summer paper should demonstrate the mastery of a specific area in the literature together with the early development of a research idea in this area. The student will be expected to present this paper to a gathering of three Finance faculty members of the student’s choosing in October.
In all years after the first year, the summer research paper should be a well-developed research paper. (Well-developed does not mean completed – research is always presented as work in progress. Rather, it means that the work shows enough progress and development to merit a seminar presentation.) Students will then present their papers to the overall Finance faculty and PhD student body in scheduled talks over the Fall quarter. Student presentations will typically be 45 minutes, save for job market paper presentations, which will be a full hour and a half.
A passing grade on the paper at the end of the second year is one requirement for admission to candidacy. More generally, these presentations throughout all years will be a primary manner that faculty who are not advising the student become familiar with the student’s work, and will play a crucial role in the assessment of the student’s academic progress.
Students take the field exam in the summer after the first year. Material from the field exam will be based on required first year coursework. This includes required finance courses, as well as the required microeconomic and econometric classes. The primary purpose of the exam is to ascertain that students have learned the introductory material that is a necessary foundation for understanding and undertaking research in the field. Additionally, studying for the field exam will give students the opportunity to review and synthesize material across all their different first year courses. Students may be asked to leave the program if they fail the field exam, or may be allowed to retake the exam at the Faculty’s discretion. Students who fail the field exam two times will be required to leave the program.
One quarter of course assistantship or teaching practicum. This requirement must be completed prior to graduation.
The finance oral exam takes place at the end of the spring quarter of the second year, in early June.
At the beginning of the spring quarter of the second year, the student meets with the liaison to determine three finance faculty members who will administer the exam. The student then meets with the selected faculty examiners to discuss a set of topics that will be covered in the finance oral exam. These topics will generally be chosen from coverage in the Finance PhD classes. An important component of the exam involves the student identifying a particular research area to discuss at the exam. The student will be expected to discuss major results in the literature related to this area and to identify important unresolved questions that need to be addressed. In addition the student will be expected to discuss how one or more of these questions might be addressed either theoretically or empirically. This discussion can be viewed as a preliminary step towards identifying the research project of the second year paper. The results from the finance oral exam plus the result from the second-year summer research paper (presented in the fall of 3rd year) and overall performance in the program are weighed in the decision to admit to candidacy.
Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree is a judgment by the faculty of the student’s potential to successfully complete the requirements of the degree program. Students are required to advance to candidacy by September 1 before the start of their fourth year in the program.
The university oral examination is a defense of the dissertation work in progress. The student orally presents and defends the thesis work in progress at a stage when it is one-half to two-thirds complete. The oral examination committee tests the student on the theory and methodology underlying the research, the areas of application and portions of the major field to which the research is relevant, and the significance of the dissertation research. Students are required to successfully complete the oral exams by September 1 before the start of their fifth year in the program.
The doctoral dissertation is expected to be an original contribution to scholarship or scientific knowledge, to exemplify the highest standards of the discipline, and to be of lasting value to the intellectual community. The Finance faculty defer to the student’s Dissertation Reading Committee to provide general guidelines (e.g., number of chapters, length of dissertation) on the dissertation.
Years one & two.
Related departments.
The Finance doctoral program provides students with rigorous training in finance, economics, mathematics and statistics. These tools, plus opportunities for supervised independent research, enable students to make their own contributions to the understanding of financial markets and institutions that lead to productive research careers. The Finance doctoral program trains students to apply empirical methods and theoretical tools to advance our understanding of how financial markets and institutions work, and how they may contribute to economic development. The program aims to produce scholars who develop rigorous and creative research in finance and economics. Students are exposed to a variety of research methods in their coursework, and interact closely with faculty as they develop their own research projects. A distinctive characteristic of our program is its close ties with the Department of Economics, which are fostered by joint seminars, mutual advising of students, and frequent collaboration on research projects. The academic interests of the finance faculty also span a very broad range of topics in finance, from the role of culture and trust in financial markets to the identification of jump risk premiums. The breadth of knowledge and interests of our faculty create an environment that encourages students to conduct advanced research in novel aspects of the field.
Active Research Areas : Current theoretical and empirical research in Finance spans the areas of asset pricing and corporate finance. Research topics include corporate governance, household financial decisions, macro-finance, financial crises, the pricing of securities in financial markets, international finance, financial history, development economics, market microstructure, regulation, and financial econometrics. Please note: Applicants to economics-based PhD programs, such as Finance, may opt-in to have their application considered by Weinberg's Economics PhD program. More information about this option is available on The Graduate School website .
Finance faculty members include scholars who are fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Bureau of Economics Research, and the Society for Financial Econometrics, as well as recipients of the Smith Breeden Prize from the American Finance Association and other top paper awards. Several faculty serve/served in editorial positions at leading journals, such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Econometrica , and as directors of the American Finance Association and past-presidents of the Western Finance Association. Recent publications within top economics and finance journals include American Economic Review , Econometrica , Journal of Finance , Journal of Financial Economics, and Journal of Political Economy.
We seek students with strong training in mathematics and statistics and a solid background in economics, either through prior study or through work and research experience. Recommended coursework at an advanced level includes calculus, linear algebra, optimization, probability and statistics. Although a master’s degree is not required, about half of our incoming class has a graduate degree. Prior research experience is not required.
In years one and two, students take three or four courses each quarter (fall, winter, spring). The first-year students complete the three core sequences in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics. In year two, students enroll in the 3-course sequences in asset pricing and corporate finance, plus an additional course/elective – preferably from the Economics Department. Students must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade point average (GPA). Qualifying Exam At the end of year one, students are required to establish competence in the Economics course sequences: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics. This competence is satisfied by achieving a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) across the nine required courses in the sequence.
During the summer following the student’s second year of study, students must pass a comprehensive qualifying exam designed to measure competence in both asset pricing and corporate finance or they must demonstrate competence by maintaining a 3.6 GPA average across both course sequences.
Candidacy As students transition from coursework to research, they are required to write an original research paper in the summer of their second year supervised by a faculty advisor. Students present their completed research project to the department in September following the summer quarter of their second year. At that time their performance is reviewed by the Finance faculty, and upon successfully completing their coursework, passing their qualifying exam and second-year paper, students are admitted to candidacy.
Fourth Year Paper At the end of the fall quarter of the fourth year, students are required to pass the dissertation proposal requirement by presenting a completed research paper to the department. The research paper has to be sufficiently advanced to be part of the student's dissertation. Students who do not pass the dissertation proposal at that stage have an additional opportunity to do so by the end of the spring quarter of the fourth year.
Research, Proposal & Dissertation The main activity in years three and four is research toward a thesis of publishable quality, under the direction of one or more faculty advisors. During the third year, students are required to present their work in progress to the department. A thesis proposal must be presented to the Finance faculty by the end of fall quarter of their fourth year. In their final year in the program, each candidate must complete a dissertation demonstrating original and significant research and must pass a final oral examination (“defense”) on the dissertation.
Teaching Requirement To promote engagement with faculty and integration with the intellectual life of the department, students serve as research assistants and teaching assistants during years two, three, and four. Research assistantships (RAs) are an excellent lead-in to research; teaching assistantships (TAs) prepare students for teaching after obtaining the PhD.
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Finance ph.d., earn a ph.d. in business and a major concentration in finance and learn from and work with top faculty members.
The Ph.D. in Business and a Major Concentration in Finance at Rice University prepares doctoral graduates to be superior classroom instructors and research scholars in financial economics upon graduation.
Our emphasis on research productivity, collaboration and collegiality is reflected in the students’ high completion rate in the program and the faculty’s commitment to the success of their students.
Deeply invested in the path their students take, the finance faculty believe in an open-door policy and collegial atmosphere during the program and after graduation. The essence of the finance doctoral program is the opportunity to learn from and work with top quality faculty members on a broad range of topics in modern finance.
Discussing and debating my ideas with professors at Rice Business honed the ideas into specific and testable questions. When time is a person's most precious commodity and people who give it to you believe strongly in what you are doing, you know you're in the right place. Lizzy Berger, Ph.D. in Finance '16 Assistant Professor of Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Rice Business offers an outstanding program for doctoral students interested in finance.
Full financial assistance will be offered to each admitted student in the Ph.D. in Finance program in the form of a research assistantship, where the student must work as a research assistant for assigned faculty members. The financial assistance is merit-based and is contingent on continued satisfactory progress (which includes prior satisfactory performance as a research assistant).
Tuition Grants
Full tuition support is available for each year of full-time study, conditional on satisfactory progress in the doctoral program.
Admitted students will be offered stipend support of $40,000 per fiscal year*. This stipend is available for each year of full-time study, conditional on satisfactory progress in the doctoral program.
Research and Academic Support
Each student will be provided with a workspace, a personal computer with office software**, including all necessary (as determined by area faculty) statistical packages and access to the Rice University network, library access, online academic journals access and e-mail. Each student will also have available $1,000 per year for miscellaneous research and academic expenses such as text books required for classes, computer upgrades, conference travel etc. Students may roll over unused monies from one year to the next.
*A condition for such stipend support is that the student must not engage in outside work for pay without prior permission from the Ph.D. program director. An incoming student bringing outside financial support in the form of a merit-based or fellowship will still be eligible to receive the stipend in full in addition to such outside support. If a student in the third year or beyond generates such outside support, the Rice Business stipend will be decreased by 50 percent of the outside support.
**The computer will be refreshed after successful defense of the dissertation proposal. Instead, students completing their third year of study may be eligible for a computer refresh if needed and with the recommendation of their advisor.
Most coursework is completed in the first three years of the Ph.D. program. Students are expected to be in residence throughout the calendar year. Exceptions to this requirement must be approved by the student's dissertation chairperson, area advisor, and the director of the Ph.D. program.
All Ph.D. students are required to complete a doctoral dissertation and must maintain at least a 3.0 (B) grade point average. Students must defend their dissertation research proposal within a maximum of five years from the time of matriculation and defend their dissertation within a maximum of seven years from the time of matriculation.
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Your coursework over the first two years, which should cover a minimum of nine courses, will be determined by you in consultation with the finance area faculty advisor.
You must defend your dissertation research proposal within a maximum of five years from the time of matriculation and defend your dissertation within a maximum of seven years from the time of matriculation.
These times represent generous upper limits. Students will be expected to complete their doctoral studies well within these stipulated deadlines.
Requirements
Course, Research Work and Dissertation Advisor
Exam Requirements
Third-Year Research Paper Each student must write and present a sole-authored original research paper during their third year in the program. The paper must be presented by October 15 of the student's third year in the program. The specific procedures are as follows:
Failure to complete the Third-Year Paper requirement, as outlined above, will mean that the student is not making satisfactory academic progress in the Ph.D. Program and is grounds for dismissal from the doctoral program.
Sample Course Sequence
The course curriculum is designed around a challenging course of study in both the theory of financial economics and in cutting edge empirical work. Here is a sample course sequence for a doctoral student in finance. BUSI 524, 525, 526, and 527 are half-semester courses on special topics in finance taught biennially. Students should consult the finance area advisor regarding whether to substitute a more advanced math course for Math 321 in the fall of the first year.
Year 1 - Summer (May 23 - August 15) Math Camp and Stat Camp
Year 1 - Fall ECON 501 - Microeconomic Theory I ECON 502 - Macroeconomics I MATH 321 Introduction to Analysis I ECON 510 - Econometrics I Year 1 - Spring ECON 508 - Microeconomic Theory II ECON 511 Econometrics II BUSI 521 Asset Pricing Theory Year 2 - Fall BUSI 524 or BUSI 525 BUSI 523 - Empirical Methods in Finance BUSI 522 - Corporate Finance Year 2 - Spring BUSI 526 or BUSI 527
Year 3 - Fall BUSI 524 or BUSI 525
Year 3 - Spring BUSI 526 or BUSI 527 Course Descriptions BUSI 521: Asset Pricing Theory This course is an introduction to portfolio choice and asset pricing theory. Topics include expected utility maximization, stochastic discount factors, arbitrage, mean-variance analysis, representative investors, and beta-pricing models. Single-period and dynamic models are studied.
BUSI 522: Corporate Finance The purpose of this course is to provide a background for understanding the major research directions in corporate finance. Topics include theory of the firm, capital structure, external financing decisions, payout policy, agency problems, corporate control and governance, investment decisions, and the role of financial institutions in corporate transactions.
BUSI 523: Empirical Methods in Finance This course is an introduction to empirical research in finance, covering the techniques most often used in the analysis and testing of financial economic theory. The course covers both time-series and cross section methods. Topics include event studies, empirical tests of asset pricing models, forecasting relationships, return predictability in the time-series and cross-section, asset pricing anomalies, and specification and identification issues in corporate finance.
BUSI 524, 525, 526, 527: Advanced Topics in Finance These are half-semester courses covering various topics in financial economics.
Certification of Candidacy indicates that a student has reached the advanced stage of the Ph.D. Program, permitting him/her to devote full time to writing a dissertation. At least eight months must elapse between admission to candidacy and conferral of the degree. The requirements for candidacy are:
Every year, we have a diverse group of applicants for the finance Ph.D. program. Successful applicants have been music majors, engineers, newly graduated undergraduates, MBAs, Ph.D.s in other fields, economists, finance majors, computer scientists, and financial professionals. Although applicants who have strong backgrounds in mathematics, economics, and statistics and demonstrate proficiency in spoken and written English are among the most competitive in our applicant pool, we give all applicants due consideration.
Successful candidates for admission typically have had GMAT scores between 710 and 760. Roughly half of admitted candidates take the GRE instead of the GMAT and have comparable scores. In the spring, we arrange for finalists come to campus to see the school and meet the faculty.
The business school accepts students for full-time study beginning in the fall semester each year.
International applicants whose native language is not English need to submit a TOEFL score. If you applied to Rice Business previously, we ask that you submit the complete application package again regardless of the previous decision. You will be required to use a new e-mail address to start a new application.
An applicant must declare finance as their intended area of study while applying to the Ph.D. in Finance program. Selected candidates will be notified of admission decisions via e-mail no later than April 15. Candidates who submitted an application to the doctoral program and were not offered admission may re-apply for a later year.
Unlike MBA program applicants, Ph.D. program applicants are not required to have work experience. While experience is certainly helpful, evidence of strong intellectual ability is the most important factor.
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The Department of Finance, Real Estate, and Insurance and Risk Management at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business offers a rigorous, systematic, and highly structured doctoral program that develops quantitative, analytical, and teaching skills required for a successful career as a financial economist or as a faculty member. Our primary objective is to train scholars who will join top academic and research institutions or enter the field of financial economics.
The department has experienced phenomenal growth in the past few years, with exceptionally talented and highly energetic fresh PhDs from Columbia University, Indiana University, London Business School, and the University of Michigan joining our internationally renowned faculty. We work with a select number of PhD candidates each year on a wide range of empirical and theoretical research topics in finance.
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Our faculty publications appear in journals such as Geneva Risk, Insurance Review, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Finance , Journal of Financial Research , Financial Review , Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics , Quarter Journal of Business and Economics , Journal of International Business Studies , and the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal .
Lindner doctoral students receive excellent research support. Our seminar series features prominent researchers. Our department has subscriptions to all major finance and accounting databases through WRDS, and funding is available to doctoral students for travel to conferences. Our top-ranked Carl H. Lindner III Center for Insurance and Risk Management and the UC Real Estate Center provide a great opportunity for doctoral students to interact with practitioners.
A collegial environment has long been a hallmark of Lindner PhD programs. Students frequently collaborate with one another and with faculty to produce original research. We strongly encourage these collaborations and place a high priority on students pursuing their own research agendas as quickly as possible. The finance program is highly selective, allowing faculty to work closely with each doctoral student to customize a program of study that meets his or her interests and needs. The goal of this interaction is for you to develop the ability to conduct original research that will become the cornerstone of your dissertation.
In order to enhance our students' teaching abilities, Lindner offers teaching workshops to develop their classroom skills. In our program, students are mentored by department faculty while in various teaching assistant roles and they are given hands-on teaching experience in the classroom to complete their teacher training.
The program begins with a thorough grounding in quantitative methods and economic and financial theory and is complemented by a sequence of seminars covering all the major areas of financial economics. Through work on an independent research paper, students develop the skills and ability necessary to conduct original research. Satisfactory performance on a written comprehensive examination marks the transition from coursework to full-time thesis research. A brief list of the research topics students may choose to pursue as a dissertation topic include theoretical, experimental, or empirical aspects of asset pricing, corporate finance, financial institutions, market microstructure, or real estate.
The program offers a thorough grounding in the basic tools of economics, statistics, and mathematics through a series of introductory courses followed by a series of well-defined seminars that cover the major areas of financial economics.
In addition to gaining basic analytical tools, candidates learn to develop economic intuition into financial problems and acquire the necessary mind-set to teach and conduct independent research as a university professor.
The curriculum consists of four components: required courses, an independent research paper, a comprehensive exam and a dissertation.
Students complete a program of study that leads to competency in three areas: quantitative methods, economics, and finance. The requirements of the program of study are typically satisfied by completing 18 courses in the first two and a half years of the program. Required courses include seven courses in quantitative methods and economics, six in finance, and several electives. In some cases coursework prior to entering the Program may be substituted for required courses.
Students are expected to engage in research early in the program. All students work at least part-time as research assistants during the first two years of the program. By the end of their second year, students are required to submit a research paper as part of the FIN 9025 Research Colloquium. A more detailed description of the research paper and the standards and criteria used to evaluate it is available from (and maintained and updated by) the PhD Committee.
Satisfactory performance on a written comprehensive examination marks the student's transition from coursework to full-time thesis research. The examination is intended to allow the student to demonstrate substantial knowledge of finance, economics and quantitative methods.
The candidate will have completed most course work, including all finance coursework, and submitted a satisfactory research paper prior to taking the comprehensive examination.
The doctoral dissertation is expected to be a substantial, significant and original contribution to knowledge. It is prepared under the guidance of a thesis committee of three or more faculty members (including one from outside the Finance department) selected by the candidate in consultation with his or her thesis advisor. Early in the process, the candidate submits a thesis proposal. The proposal is presented in a seminar to which the finance faculty and doctoral students are invited. The purpose of the presentation is to give the student an opportunity to hear the suggestions and comments of members of the UC finance community while the research plan is still fluid.
A thesis-defense seminar, open to the entire University of Cincinnati academic community, is held when the research is completed.
The finance PhD program requires the following coursework:
The department offers the following seminars. The final seminar, FIN 9025 Research Colloquium: Special Topics in Finance, does not meet as a regular course. It is the course credit associated with the second-year paper.
FIN 9011: Foundations of Finance
FIN 9012: Corporate Finance Theory
FIN 9013: Empiracal Studies in Corporate Finance
FIN 9014: Asset Pricing Theory
FIN 9015: Empiracal Studies in Asset Pricing and Investments
FIN 9020: Advanced Topics in Finance
FIN 9025: Research Colloquium: Current Topics in Finance
Recent graduates of Lindner's Finance PhD concentration have accepted positions at:
Bond, Shaun, Pai, Yu-Jou , Wang, Peng, and Suyan Zheng (2019), “The Impact of Dividend Reinvestment Plans on Firm Payout Choices -Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts”, Real Estate Economics , 47(1), 178-213.
Suyan Zheng, “Why Do Multinational Firms Hold So Much Cash? Further Evidence on the Precautionary Motive,” Journal of Accounting and Finance , forthcoming
Suyan Zheng (2017), “Can Corporate Diversification Induce More Tax Avoidance Practices?”, Journal of Multinational Financial Management , 41, 47-60.
Doina C. Chichernea , Anthony D. Holder, and Alex Petkevich. "Does return dispersion explain the accrual and investment anomalies?" Journal of Accounting and Economics .
Doina C. Chichernea , Michael F. Ferguson, and Haimanot Kassa, "Idiosyncratic Risk, Investor Base and Returns," Financial Management .
Hui Guo and Buhui Qiu , "A Better Measure of Institutional Informed Trading," Contemporary Accounting Research .
Kee H. Chung and Sean Yang. "Reverse Stock Splits, Institutional Holdings, and Share Value" , Financial Management .
Kee H. Chung and Chairat Chuwonganant. "Uncertainty, Market Structure, and Liquidity" . Journal of Financial Economics 113 (September 2014), 476-499.
Guo, Hui, Michael F. Ferguson, and Haimanot (Haim) Kassa , "On the Relation between EGARCH Idiosyncratic Volatility and Expected Stock Returns," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 49(1) (2014), 271-296.
Guo, Hui, and Buhui Qiu . "Options-implied variance and future stock returns." Journal of Banking & Finance 44 (2014): 93-113.
Glascock, John, and Ran Lu-Andrews . "An examination of macroeconomic effects on the liquidity of REITs." The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 49.1 (2014): 23-46.
Qiu, Buhui , Svetoslav Trapkov, and Fadi Yakoub. "Do target CEOs trade premiums for personal benefits?" Journal of Banking & Finance 42 (2014): 23-41.
Kee H. Chung and Hao Zhang. "A Simple Approximation of Intraday Spreads with Daily Data." Journal of Financial Markets 17 (January 2014), 94-120.
New topics for elective courses have been consistently added to the EDHEC PhD in Finance programme curriculum since its inception. The programme management balances methodological electives with conceptual ones to help students stay informed about ongoing research debates and cutting edge research methodologies.
Participants are required to take a minimum of five elective seminars during their second and third years. PhD in Finance candidates will have the privilege of learning from world’s leading specialists in these areas from top research institutions such as Chicago GSB, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Duke University, Imperial College, Princeton University or Yale University.
In 2022-2023, the following topics were covered: Private Equity, Asset Pricing and Monetary Policy, Production-based Asset Pricing, Spectral Asset Pricing, and Models and Methods in Macro-Finance.
The next topics are unveiled below:
Fixed Income | Pietro Veronesi, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business | September 2024 |
Household Finance | Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London | September 2024 |
Alternative Risk Premia and Replication of Financial Anomalies | Robert Kosowski, Imperial College London | February 2025 |
Market Microstructure | Albert Menkveld, University of Amsterdam | February 2025 |
Sustainable Finance (Impact investing) | Ayako Yasuda, University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management | April 2025 |
Climate Finance | Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London | September 2025 |
Machine Learning in Asset Pricing | Semyon Malamud, EPFL, Swiss Finance Institute | September 2025 |
Access the programme curriculum, and the list of past and upcoming research seminars here .
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Below is a list of best universities in Moscow ranked based on their research performance in Finance. A graph of 114K citations received by 27.1K academic papers made by 28 universities in Moscow was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.
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400 | 24 | Nizhny Novgorod | |
468 | 23 | Voronezh | |
493 | 33 | Veliky Novgorod | |
571 | 2 | Sumy | |
633 | 31 | Saint Petersburg | |
635 | 3 | Saint Petersburg | |
636 | 20 | Saint Petersburg | |
637 | 12 | Saint Petersburg | |
646 | 7 | Kharkiv | |
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Traditionally, a doctoral degree is regarded almost exclusively as a passport to scholarly distinction and academic tenure. Any person who committed the time, energy, and expense to attain a PhD appeared inevitably destined for the academy, free to pursue knowledge without commercial intent.
So goes the standard rationale—and training—for a doctorate. Candidates are groomed for careers in academia, where they will research, teach, and publish. That tradition, though well-intentioned, is overdue for a drastic expansion.
Such an expansion has already begun. In December, the National Science Foundation awarded $100 million to 18 academic institutions all across the U.S. to “speed and scale research into products and services that benefit the nation.” The first-ever Accelerating Research Translation awards are designed to enable university scholars to convert academic innovation into commercial value and societal purpose. Each school awarded will partner with a mentoring institution of higher education already equipped with “a robust ecosystem for translational research.”
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Meanwhile, as the supply of jobs in academia struggles to keep up with the demand, more PhDs are turning to careers in industry. In 2020, The Princeton Review warned, “If it’s your ambition to become a professor, you should be aware that the PhD. track is no guarantee of a life in academia .” As such, candidates will need to be prepared differently.
Make no mistake: Some college graduates bearing PhDs have proven highly enterprising. It is estimated that the private sector now employs about as many PhD graduates as educational institutions.
Most research finds that between one-third and one-half of all PhD graduates globally stay in academia , while others may migrate to the private sector. Almost daily, some entrepreneurial PhDs launch new ventures that eventually hit the jackpot. Indeed, Forbes has reported that “at least” 35 U.S. billionaires obtained a PhD before plunging into business.
But let’s face it: Academics are rarely trained to be entrepreneurs. They typically focus on conducting research, publishing manuscripts, and at times, developing intellectual property, but without cultivating the business knowledge or resources to turn innovations into viable market solutions. And it’s a shame when university research languishes on the shelf, never reaching the market—the so-called “valley of death”.
Universities are amping up efforts to educate PhD students about how to better capitalize on a doctoral degree. At Lehigh University, we have conducted a competitive analysis of what other higher education institutions, particularly those highly regarded for entrepreneurial activity, are doing to engage PhD students in entrepreneurial courses and programs. Among the schools we studied were Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Dartmouth, and UC Berkeley. Overall, our analysis identified a need—and opportunity—to transform PhD education.
More particularly, we found that although most of these top-tier universities offer entrepreneurship education for graduate and undergraduate students alike, few target PhD students. We also learned that because most of the graduate courses in entrepreneurship originate in business or engineering schools, few are truly interdisciplinary. We also found that PhD students are more likely to participate in entrepreneurial activity if they have faculty advisors who are themselves entrepreneurs or at least entrepreneurial-minded.
Stanford University particularly stands out as an exemplary entrepreneurial environment for students. It benefits from education-industry partnerships that provide access to the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. UC Berkeley distinguishes itself, too, for its emphasis on interdisciplinary entrepreneurial development and close collaboration with nearby startup incubators.
Dartmouth College pioneered the first engineering PhD innovation program that provides entrepreneurial training to turn research discoveries into market solutions. The PhD fellows take additional coursework in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and spend up to six months at an industry internship.
Entrepreneurship education should be democratized. Other universities should follow the examples set by the top-tiers. All students—even those on a budget—should have access to the equivalent of an Ivy League experience.
Our university is taking a step in this new direction, to better expose our PhD students to entrepreneurial experiences and career pathways. Last fall, we introduced a hands-on, real-world, interdisciplinary course on entrepreneurship for PhD students. Built on a model designed by the National Science Foundation, the course is offered for credit and available to graduate students across disciplines through Lehigh@NasdaqCenter, partnering with the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Lehigh’s Office of Technology Transfer.
It’s time for doctorates to get down to business. More PhDs should treat the ideas that emerge from scholarship as entrepreneurial opportunities. But first, they must know how to harness all that valuable education in the service of both our society and our economy.
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Wharton's PhD program in Finance provides students with a solid foundation in the theoretical and empirical tools of modern finance, drawing heavily on the discipline of economics. The department prepares students for careers in research and teaching at the world's leading academic institutions, focusing on Asset Pricing and Portfolio ...
The finance department offers an exceptionally large range of courses devoted exclusively to PhD students. Apart from core PhD courses in asset pricing and corporate finance, students can choose from a range of electives such as household finance, macro-finance, and financial intermediation.
This is one of the best PhD in Finance programs you can do completely online. It aims to prepare students to address issues in business finance through research, best practices, and relevant literature. Courses: Managerial Finance, Investments & Derivatives, Business Valuation, etc. Credits: 60. Duration: 3 years average.
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The field of finance covers the economics of claims on resources. Financial economists study the valuation of these claims, the markets in which they are traded, and their use by individuals, corporations, and the society at large. At Stanford GSB, finance faculty and doctoral students study a wide spectrum of financial topics, including the ...
As a finance PhD student at Chicago Booth, you'll join a community that encourages you to think independently. Taking courses at Booth and in the university's Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, you will gain a solid foundation in all aspects of economics and finance--from the factors that determine asset prices to how firms and individuals make financial decisions.
The Ph.D. in Finance. Stern's Ph.D. program in finance trains scholars to conduct research at the leading edge of financial economics. The faculty represents one of the largest finance research groups in the world that has been ranked consistently as the leading publisher of academic research in top finance journals. Comprised of more than 40 ...
2023-24 Curriculum Outline. The MIT Sloan Finance Group offers a doctoral program specialization in Finance for students interested in research careers in academic finance. The requirements of the program may be loosely divided into five categories: coursework, the Finance Seminar, the general examination, the research paper, and the dissertation.
Our Ph.D. students work with renowned faculty whose expertise covers corporate finance, macroeconomics, asset pricing, derivatives, investments and behavioral finance. The UCLA Anderson Doctoral Program is highly selective. We expect you to develop a passion and tenacity for excellent research in finance and, through mentorship and ...
Academics. Finance Doctoral students are trained in major areas in finance and economics, including, asset pricing, corporate finance, continuous-time models in finance, information economics, international finance, market micro-structure, and banking. The program prepares students for careers in scholarly research, and graduates take jobs ...
Wharton's PhD program in Finance provides students with a solid foundation in the theoretical and empirical tools of modern finance, drawing heavily on the discipline of economics. ... For information on courses and sample plan of study, please visit the University Graduate Catalog.
Finance Specialization Requirements (2 Courses) Students specialize in one of two tracks in finance research. Capital Markets Track. FIN 622 Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory. FIN 632 International Finance and Macroeconomics. Corporate/Household/Banking Track. FIN 626 Advanced Corporate Finance. FIN 633 Advanced Empirical Corporate, Banking and ...
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Degree Programs Choose from a range of full-time or part-time programs, and discover why Kellogg is the place where collaboration fuels innovation and next-level leadership. ... Please note: Applicants to economics-based PhD programs, such as Finance, may opt-in to have their application considered by Weinberg's Economics PhD program.
Here is a sample course sequence for a doctoral student in finance. BUSI 524, 525, 526, and 527 are half-semester courses on special topics in finance taught biennially. Students should consult the finance area advisor regarding whether to substitute a more advanced math course for Math 321 in the fall of the first year.
7,969 EUR / year. 4½ years. This Business Administration - Finance (Online) DBA program from Liberty University Online is designed to help expand upon your master's level education by providing the knowledge and training you need to succeed at the highest levels of business leadership. D.B.A. / Part-time / Online.
Finance PhD Courses. Asset Pricing Theory I (Fin I) (Lynch) Asset Pricing Theory II (Fin I) (Savov) Corporate Finance Theory I (Fin II) (John) Corporate Finance Theory II (Fin II) (Mueller) Empirical Corporate Finance (Fin III) (Schnabl) Continuous-Time Finance (Fin IV) (Carpenter) From Micro to Macro: Employment and Investment (Fin IV ...
PhD in Finance. The Department of Finance, Real Estate, and Insurance and Risk Management at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business offers a rigorous, systematic, and highly structured doctoral program that develops quantitative, analytical, and teaching skills required for a successful career as a financial economist or as a faculty member.
New topics for elective courses have been consistently added to the EDHEC PhD in Finance programme curriculum since its inception. The programme management balances methodological electives with conceptual ones to help students stay informed about ongoing research debates and cutting edge research methodologies.
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Finance Group. Finance is the study of markets for real and financial assets. The practical implications of modern financial theory are widely recognized and implemented by Wall Street and corporations. The PhD program provides students with an understanding of the theory on which the field is based and the tools they need to conduct ...
Financial trader - manage stocks, bonds, derivatives and currency trades for clients using up-to-date knowledge of market trends. Commodities trader - specialize in specific types of investments, such as agricultural commodities, oil and metals. With a degree in finance from the University of Idaho, you will have the skills to understand ...
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With a bachelor's degree in business or a Master of Business Administration (MBA), you can expect to take courses in finance, marketing, management, accounting, entrepreneurship, and business strategy, and build up expertise in one or more areas.. Beyond subject knowledge, both kinds of degrees are designed for you to strengthen key skills, including critical and creative thinking, problem ...
One of 20 nine-credit concentrations available, the finance specialization features courses in multinational finance and portfolio management, plus a three-day virtual or on-campus residency. Degree-seekers can start at the beginning of any semester and graduate within two years.
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Undergrad and graduate business, finance, and accounting students applying for FP&A internships and full-time roles. FP&A Analysts & Managers. ... Over the course of eight weeks, you will learn forecasting, analysis, business partnering, and financial storytelling in a curriculum that combines technical and interpersonal skills with real-world ...