M.S. Programs in Finance at U.S. Universities
Compiled and maintained by Don Chance
The following is a set of links to specialty masters
programs in finance. To be included on this list, a program must
- be a U. S. university (sorry, I cannot handle the large
number of programs outside of the U. S., many of which cannot be distinguished
from MBA programs; a list of these programs is maintained by Barbaros Serdar
Ozsoy
of the University of Alberta at this
link.)
- offer a masters designated as master of science, master
of arts, master of finance, master of science in finance, but not master of
business administration
- not be in financial engineering, quantitative finance,
financial mathematics, mathematical finance, computational finance, etc.; this
list may not be inclusive of all possible variations of finance that are
excluded. See
www.global-derivatives.com for a list of those programs. Their list
also includes most of these as well.
You can email me with suggestions for consideration and
corrected links: dchance@lsu.edu.
GO NO FURTHER UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THE
FOLLOWING:
- This list is provided "as-is." The links and
the information may not be accurate (I will correct any that you make me
aware of).
- No, I do not know of rankings of programs.
- Prospective students: Do not ask me
questions or
advice about these programs or your career plans. Please be considerate.
I cannot serve as an advisor for everyone who sees this list and emails me.
I know this sounds arrogant, but I simply cannot get engaged in these types
of discussions with anyone who finds it easy to email me. Accept this
list as an offer with no customer service attached. (But see below)
- Prospective students (again): Here's
some general advice. Find a professor
you had who you like and did well in that course. Naturally this
should be a finance professor, but if you did not have one, go for an
economics professor. (If you have not had economics, you should not be
considering an MS in finance.) Talk to him or her. Also, pick out a
couple of schools with masters programs that sound interesting and contact
them. Ask to speak to someone involved in the program. These two people
should be able to answer your questions and give you good advice. Once
you narrow down your choices, talk more to the schools and also try to talk
to some students in the program. Find out if the program has met their
expectations. I hope this helps.
Note: This list has been recently updated and
about half of the schools on the original list have been purged due to
outdated links. The programs may still exist and I will be glad to add
them if you send me the link but I will not search for it.
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Last updated: October 6, 2009