MBA with Risk Management Concentration

The risk management concentration gives students a solid grounding in quantitative financial economic tools and methods as well as firm general management foundation from the rest of the MBA curriculum.

Students fully admitted to the MBA program who wish to obtain a concentration in Risk Management would be required to complete the following coursework.

Proposed 52 credit hour curriculum for an MBA degree with Risk Management Concentration:

MBA Courses Credit Hours Risk Mgmt Track Credit Hours
ACCT 5183 3 FIN 5223 3
ACCT 5283 3 FIN 5763 3
ECON 5113 3 FIN 5550 (Risk Mgmt) 3
MKTG 5133 3 STAT 4203 3
MGMT 5113 3 STAT 4043 or ECON 5213 3
FIN 5053 3
MSIS 5623 3
MSIS 5303 3
MBA 5233 3
MBA 5303 3
BADM 5613 or LSB 5163 3
MBA 5100 4
TOTAL 37 TOTAL 15
  • FIN 5223 Investment Theory and Strategy
  • FIN 5763 Derivative Securities and the Management of Financial Price Risk
  • FIN 5550 Special Topics in Finance
  • STAT 4203 Mathematical Statistics I
  • STAT 4043 Applied Regression Analysis
  • ECON 5213 Introduction to Econometrics