Business Administration (PhD) - Finance Track

Program Requirements

Complete a minimum of 57 credits from at least sixteen courses including two core courses, ten track courses, three electives, and twelve credits of dissertation research.

Doctoral candidacy: Pass qualifying exams at the end of the first and second years.
Dissertation: Compose and defend a dissertation based on original research.
Project: Complete a summer project.

Statute of limitations: Eight years.

Course Requirements

Core Courses (6 Credits)

BUSADM 700 - Business in Context: Markets, Technologies, Societies 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 775 - Professional Development Workshop - Doctoral Teaching 3 Credit(s)

Track Courses (30 Credits)

BUSADM 710 - Accounting for Finance I 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 711 - Accounting for Finance II 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 721 - Quantitative Financial Analysis 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 722 - Cross-Section Analysis of Financial Data 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 723 - Time Series Analysis of Financial Data 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 730 - Seminar in Investment & Asset Valuation 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 731 - Seminar in Financial Economics 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 732 - Seminar in Corporate Finance 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 780 - Advanced Data Mining and Predictive Modeling 3 Credit(s)

Electives (9 Credits)

Complete three additional BUSADM courses.

At least one course must be from below.

BUSADM 733 - Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 734 - Topics in Investment Asset Pricing 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 736 - Accounting for Finance III 3 Credit(s)
BUSADM 782 - Optimization for Data Science 3 Credit(s)

Dissertation Research (12 Credits)

BUSADM 777 - Dissertation Seminar - Finance track 3 Credit(s)
or
BUSADM 899 - Dissertation Research 1-12 Credit(s)