Financial Analytics Graduate Option
This option is available within the Business major at the following locations:
- Corvallis
- Ecampus
Financial Analytics focuses on advanced quantitative techniques to provide critical insights into valuation, portfolio optimization, and risk managements. The curriculum includes foundational work in finance, accounting, and business analytics. Students are able to customize their degree with a wide-range of electives. The strong quantitative and analytical focus of the option leads to a wide range of career opportunities.
Option Code: 2046
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
- Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
- Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
- Analyze the impact of an enterprise on its various stakeholders.
- Propose and collect data necessary to inform a discipline-based evaluation of a complex business challenge.
- Apply critical thinking skills to a business challenge in the presence of uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Organize and present in written and oral form a persuasive and comprehensive evaluation of a business challenge.
- Learn and apply core concepts and tools in the finance discipline to address current business challenges.
- Evaluate the tradeoff between risk and reward using appropriate quantitative methods.
- Provide defensible financial recommendations by applying financial tools and analytical methods.
- Appraise real-world financial challenge and formulate data-driven and research-informed practical solutions.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core | ||
| BA 528 | FINANCIAL AND COST ANALYSIS | 3 |
| BA 540 | CORPORATE FINANCE | 3 |
| BA 555 | PRACTICAL BUSINESS ANALYSIS | 3 |
| FIN 542 | INVESTMENTS | 3 |
| FIN 546 | ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE | 3 |
| BANA 560 | DATA ANALYTICS FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE | 3 |
| BANA 570 | DATA MANAGEMENT | 3 |
| BANA 571 | DATA EXPLORATION AND VISUALIZATION | 3 |
| Capstone | ||
| FIN 549 | MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select minimum of 3 credits from the following: 1 | 3 | |
| PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | ||
| FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT | ||
| INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | ||
| COMMERCIAL BANKING | ||
| INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS | ||
| PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL PLANNING | ||
| MANAGING ETHICS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS | ||
| MICROECONOMIC THEORY I | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ECONOMETRICS | ||
| PROGRAM EVALUATION | ||
| Total Credits | 30 | |
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Other electives may be approved by the Graduate Business Programs Office and full program of study must include 45 graduate credits.
Option Code: 2046