Dual MS-MBA in Financial Engineering
The dual MSFE-MBA degree is designed for students that aspire to a career in the financial services sector or a position of leadership in the chief financial office of any firm. A technical Master of Science degree coupled with an MBA provides a great mixture of education and creates a well-rounded employee. This dual degree can equip Master’s in Financial Engineering students with strong business management skills and MBA students with specialized knowledge of areas in Financial Engineering beyond the general courses in their program’s curriculum, accelerating their growth into positions of leadership and opening a more diverse selection of career choices. Students will earn two separate master's degree in this dual degree program.
This dual program offers an exceptional combination of management skills with deep and practical knowledge of all relevant aspects of Financial Engineering. The MBA program is particularly suited for Financial Engineering professionals, as it incorporates a unique blend of courses on leadership development, management skills, technology, and analytics skills, as well as human skills.
Students in this program benefit from close interaction with an internationally recognized faculty body with diverse educational and professional backgrounds in both programs within the School of Business, from the in-classroom, online and hybrid formats of the classes offered, including summer classes, and networking opportunities with alumni from both programs and other industry professionals.
Dual MS-MBA in Financial Engineering Degree Requirements
Students are required to take the following core courses and elective courses:
Core Courses
| BIA 600 | Business Analytics: Data, Models & Decisions | 3 |
| BIA 610 | Applied Analytics | 3 |
| MGT 606 | Economics for Managers | 3 |
| MGT 612 | Leader Development | 3 |
| MGT 699 | Strategic Management | 3 |
| MGT 657 | Operations Management | 3 |
| MGT 609 | Project Management Fundamentals | 3 |
| MGT 635 | Managerial Judgment and Decision-Making | 3 |
| MGT 641 | Marketing Management | 3 |
| MGT 663 | Discovering and Exploiting Entrepreneurial Opportunities | 3 |
| FE 610 | Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineers | 3 |
| FE 620 | Pricing and Hedging | 3 |
| FE 621 | Computational Methods in Finance | 3 |
| FE 630 | Portfolio Theory and Applications | 3 |
| FE 680 | Advanced Derivatives | 3 |
| FE 800 | Project in Financial Engineering | 1-6 |
Elective Courses
Students are required to take 4 electives (12 credits) of Financial Engineering (FE) courses. Electives must be approved by an advisor.