The Finance Concentration

Degree Requirements

First Year Courses

Fall Semester SOM 871 - Intro to Financial Theory STAT 607 - Probability & Statistics I REC 701 - Quantitative Methods REC 711 - Microeconomics I	Spring Semester SOM 894 - Seminar in Finance I STAT 608 - Probability & Statistics II REC 712 - Microeconomics II REC 702 - Econometric Methods II
Paper: Summer Empirical Paper

Second Year Courses

Fall Semester
SOM 894 - Seminar in Finance II
REC 703 - Econometric Methods II
ECON 706 - Macroeconomics

Spring Semester
SOM 894 - Seminar in Finance III
IE 684 - Stochastic Processes

Paper: Second Summer Review Paper

Third Year Courses

Fall Semester
SOM 894 - Seminar in Finance IV
SOM 788 - Dissertation Thesis

Spring Semester
SOM 894W - Finance Workshop*

* The Finance Workshop is offered every semester. All Finance Ph.D. students must attend and participate in this workshop as a non-credit class every semester until they graduate. Third-year students will register for this class only if they are about to defend their dissertation proposal. Ever proposal must be presented at the workshop before it is defended.