Risk Management - Finance

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.

FINANCE/CFA CONCENTRATION

The concentration is designed to give students a solid risk management foundation, including basic risk management skills in math, risk transfer markets, and modeling, plus training in enterprise risk management. The five graduate-level finance electives will further enhance the student’s financial and credit risk analysis, accounting, portfolio management, and financial modeling expertise. The curriculum covers a vast majority of the CFA Institute’s body of knowledge and should help students be well prepared to study for and pass the three exams required for the CFA Charter holder professional designation.