Description

Offered in: Paris, Singapore and Taiwan

Managing financial aspects of business is becoming increasingly complex. Financial executives must constantly cope with new products and services, sources and uses of funds, interconnected global financial markets, and highly sophisticated tools of risk management. The MS in Finance, offered by Zicklin School of Business, is a highly focused executive program designed for those pursuing a career in the field of finance. The program blends advanced financial theory with a wide range of complex financial management problems. It provides finance professionals with:

• Understanding of cutting-edge financial theories and concepts
• Sophisticated skills
• State-of-the-art analytical tools
• The judgement to apply and innovatively adapt these concepts and tools effectively

This combination of theory with real-world business applications provides professionals with a critical strategic advantage needed for success in today’s complicated world of finance.

The one year, ten-course, 30-credit executive program is designed for cohort groups of working professionals. Each course is taught on-site over two consecutive weekends by visiting Baruch faculty. The courses are scheduled approximately once every five weeks. Students take the courses together as a cohort, which facilitates close teamwork with their peers and strengthens the learning experience.

THE CURRICULUM (subject to change):

Core Courses (required)

• Quantitative Tools for Finance
• Corporate Financial Theory & Applications
• Investment Theory and Applications
• Managerial Economics
  

Advanced Courses (a subset of 6 courses is offered from the following list)

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• International Financial Markets
• Option Markets
• Futures and Forward Markets
  

Advanced Managerial Finance, Advanced Investment Analysis, and Special Topics courses, with modules on

• Financial Statement Analysis

• Corporate Financial Strategy
• Corporate Valuation
• Corporate Restructuring
• Venture Capital
• Private Equity
• Credit Derivatives
• Risk Management
• Equity Investment Management
• Financial Modelling

and others.

Contact:

Prof. Armen Hovakimian
Academic Director, International Executive Program MS in Finance
Email: armen.hovakimian@baruch.cuny.edu