MBA.BAFIC - Master of Business Administration: Finance Concentration

MBA: Finance Concentration

Finance is a field with great potential for a rewarding career. The finance concentration curriculum provides training, knowledge, and tools in corporate finance and international financial management–skills essential to the success of nearly any organization.

A Finance Concentration allows a career-motivated MBA graduate to pursue a wide range of job opportunities in financial institutions and financial markets that demand in-depth financial knowledge. These career opportunities are available in commercial banks, investment banking firms, mutual fund companies, mortgage banking, life insurance companies, pension fund management, property and casualty insurance companies, credit rating agencies, and health insurance firms.

The School of Business MBA’s Finance Concentration provides an alternative for students to substitute core MBA courses with offerings that focus on:

• theories, models, and practical applications on the efficient and effective management of corporate finance to accomplish the objectives of the firm

• planning, raising, controlling, and administering of funds for the business

• operating characteristics of financial institutions of financial markets

• financial analysis and analytical techniques in evaluation managerial decisions vs. economic value-added and market value-added for the firm

• investment analysis, asset allocation strategies, and security selection decisions that effectively and efficiently manage investment risk and/or transfer risk

• corporate approaches to global financial markets and multinational financial management