Environmental Risk Management

The MS in Risk Management takes a minimum of 30 credits to complete, depending on one’s academic background. The program can be completed in as few as three semesters, and, because courses may be offered during the summer, the program may be completed in one calendar year for students attending on a full-time basis. 

All students across the four concentrations will take an overview course which will give them a broad view of risk management, and three additional courses: risk transfer to financial markets, risk transfer to insurance markets, and a team-based, hands-on capstone course after at least 18 credits have been taken in the program. 

Students will have additional required courses specific to their chosen concentration. If equivalent courses have been taken prior to admission, students may choose courses from a set of additional electives with the approval of the program director. 

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT CONCENTRATION

The concentration is designed to give students a solid risk management foundation, including basic risk management skills in finance, math, insurance, and modeling. Course work also will provide a solid foundation in the environmental sciences relevant to economic risk management and to the environmental regulatory framework that might impinge on risk management decisions.