Advisor: Khaldoun Khashanah

Less theoretical than competing financial engineering programs, the Financial Engineering major provides students with both managerial and analytical skills specific to the world of finance.

Students in this major take eleven MBA core courses, two preparatory courses in mathematics and probability, six courses specialized to financial engineering, and one elective course.

Prerequisites for this major include a semester of microeconomics (Mgt 503 or equivalent) and a semester of introductory calculus.

Core Courses 

MGT 600 Managerial Accounting
MGT 607 Managerial Economics
MGT 609 Introduction to Project Management
MGT 623 Financial Management
MGT 641 Marketing Management
MGT 657 Operations Management
MGT 671 Technology & Innovation Management
MGT 680 Organizational Behavior and Theory
MGT 690 Designing Complex Organizations
MGT 725 Strategic Management

Breadth Courses

MGT 679 Management Information Systems

FE Major Courses

FE 510 Introduction to Financial Engineering
MA 540 Introduction to Probability Theory (maybe waived by advisor)
TM 613 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Telecommunications Managers
MIS 682 Capital Markets
FE 610 Probability and Stochastic Calculus
*FE 620 Pricing and Hedging
*CS 535 Financial Computing
FE 621 Computational Methods in Finance
FE 630 Portfolio Theory and Risk Management

Plus 1 advisor-approved elective
* Select one of these two courses