Finance, MSF

Overview

Graduate Program

The Clark University M.S.F. program is a rigorous curriculum focusing on the skills and knowledge required to apply advanced financial theories to complex financial management problems. To be successful in this program, students need to have strong mathematical skills, along with required prerequisite course work in the following areas:

• Calculus
• Economic Theory
• Statistics

Graduate Program Requirements

The M.S.F. degree is usually offered as a full-time cohort program, completed in three or four semesters. Completion of a graduate internship is required for all students except those who have 3+ years of professional business work experience or those with full-time employment during the length of the program. It may be possible to waive this requirement. Visit a member of the Stevenish Career Management Center for more information.

The required courses taken for the M.S.F. degree are all full-semester, 14-week courses, each of which count as one unit. The curriculum for the M.S.F. program consists of the following eight required courses, plus one unit of an Experiential Learning Requirement, and one unit of elective coursework for a total of 10 units:

All courses are worth one unit, unless otherwise specified.

Required Core Courses:

• Semester 1

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• ACCT 4101 - Foundations of Financial Accounting
• FIN 5309 - Financial Econometrics
• FIN 5401 - Investments

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• Semester 2

   

• FIN 5208 - Fixed-Income Securities
• FIN 5201 - Case Studies in Corporate Finance
• FIN 5216 - Computational Finance

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• Semester 3

   

• FIN 5203 - Investment Strategies
• FIN 5310 - Case Studies in Derivatives

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Program Faculty

Steve Ng, M.B.A.
Sitikantha Parida, Ph.D.
Richard Spurgin, Ph.D.
Zhenyang Tang, Ph.D.

 

Emeriti Faculty

Maurry Tamarkin, Ph.D.

For a full list of faculty, including visiting and adjunct professors, please see the Faculty page on GSOM’s website.