Curriculum - Leavey School of Business

Students enrolling in our MSFA program have two full-time options; an intensive 9-month or a 16-month program or a flexible, part-time one. Below is the list of the core classes and elective options.¹

	MSFA Program (students admitted prior to Fall 2020)	New MSFA Program (effective for Fall 2020 admits and beyond)
Pre-requisites	Statistics Calculus I Calculus II	Statistics Calculus I 3 online courses (or equivalent): linear algebra, introduction to R, and introduction to Python.²
Bootcamp	Financial Forecasting & Analysis (course starts before Fall quarter)	N/A
Core Classes	Corporate Finance Math for Finance & Analytics Database Management Systems Econometrics Investments Data Analytics with Python Time-Series Analysis Analytics for Finance R Programming	Corporate Finance and Financial Analysis Math for Finance and Analytics with R Database Management System Econometrics Investments Data Analytics with Python
Elective Options	Business Valuation Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate Real Estate Finance International Financial Management Risk Management Emerging Company Finance Behavioral Corporate Finance Governance Financial Markets & Instruments Financial Engineering Machine Learning Fin Tech	Business valuation Mergers and acquisitions Real estate finance and investments International investment International risk management Emerging company finance Emerging company finance 2 Behavioral corporate finance and risk management Applied portfolio management I Applied portfolio management II Fixed income Financial engineering Machine learning Intro to FinTech Intro to time-series analysis Advanced time-series analysis Analytics for finance (Panel Data) Analytics of Optimal Pricing Reinforcement learning Data visualization Big Data Modeling and Analytics Applied Cloud Computing
Experiential learning	N/A	Industry Practicum/Independent Study
Number of units	30 core and 16 electives 46 units total	20 core and 16 electives 36 units total
Duration	10 or 16 month full-time option or part-time	9 or 16 month full-time option or part-time

¹Courses are subject to change and availability in a given quarter is not guaranteed.

²We require all students to finish three online courses (or equivalent) prior to the start of the program: linear algebra, introduction to R, and introduction to Python.

Linear Algebra course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/linear-algebra-machine-learning
R course: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-r
Python course: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python

These courses each take around 20-25 hours to complete and we will require certificate of completions for them. Please use personal IDs that will be recognizable (Legal Name, application email, etc). Students with a grade of B or better in Linear Algebra on an official Undergraduate transcript are exempt from taking the online course.