Master global finance technologies and management with a Graduate Certificate or MS in Financial Management

The MS in Financial Management (MSFM) provides a specialized education in global quantitative finance, including investment analysis and international finance. The MSFM is ideal for those seeking careers in corporate finance, financial management, investments, and multinational finance.

The program provides a hands-on, immersive financial analytics experience, including a significant amount of statistical analysis, forecasting techniques, and programming. To prepare you for the analytical and programming curriculum, you’ll be supported by several laboratories that cover mathematics and statistics with applications in management, advanced Excel, R, and Python. 

Additionally, you’ll be encouraged to work on projects and a master thesis involving various aspects of data analysis, using data to extract and present helpful information for financial and investment decision-making. You’ll use sophisticated tools to design comprehensive visualization of significant organizational trends and prepare convincing presentations.

When you complete the master’s degree in Financial Management, you’ll have:

• Proficiency in application of mathematical and statistical modeling in financial analytics.
• Understanding of quantitative analysis in financial management and investment decision-making.
• Mastery in forecasting techniques to the analysis of problems of business organizations and performance.
• Comprehension of optimization theories and data analytics techniques in portfolio management.
• Knowledge and ability to perform data organization, analysis, and visualization for financial decision-making.

The MS in Financial Management, Concentration in International Finance is designed for professionals whose work involves multinational corporations and global financial markets. 

As a student, you’ll be equipped to perform quantitative analysis to assess transnational organization challenges and address them efficiently. You’ll be exposed to hands-on analytics of foreign exchange risk, transaction and translation exposure, foreign direct investments, and multinational corporate strategic management. 

When you graduate, you’ll be qualified for jobs in worldwide credit risk evaluation, quantitative strategies for global security selection, risk measurement and mitigation, cash management, and the impact of foreign exchange rates on the cost of capital and budgeting.

The concentration in International Finance will provide the necessary tools you’ll need to navigate the international financial system, understand global portfolio management, explore the balance of payments and international economic linkages—specialize in a highly desired area of quantitative finance.

When you complete the master’s degree in Financial Management, International Finance Concentration, you’ll have:

• Proficiency in multinational finance quantitative analysis, including international trade and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
• Demonstrated ability to apply mathematical and statistical modeling in financial analytics in the context of multinational financial management.
• Mastery in forecasting techniques to the analysis of problems of multinational business organizations and performance.
• The ability to utilize financial statements and foreign exchange derivative instruments to assess and manage currency transactional and translational risk.
• Knowledge and ability to perform data organization, analysis, and visualization for global finance decision-making.

The MS in Financial Management, Investment Analysis Concentration is designed for professionals already working or seeking positions in investment research, risk management, security selection, and portfolio management. The concentration in Investment Analysis provides in-depth knowledge of investment strategies, asset valuation, and investment management—and prepares you to excel in a variety of careers in finance involving analysis and valuation of financial assets and risk management.

The investment analysis concentration offers you an opportunity to learn sophisticated portfolio management approaches, including quantitative techniques for portfolio optimization and rebalancing. 

Over the course of the program, you’ll apply analytical methodologies within the overall investment process and utilize the critical elements, such as asset allocation and security selection, including specialized portfolios, such as ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)-focused investments. 

You’ll also learn about services provided by mutual funds and be able to construct portfolios with different risk levels. In addition, you’ll learn how to value a firm using constant growth or multistage dividend discount models, financial statements, and financial ratio analysis. 

When you complete the master’s degree in Financial Management, Investment Analysis Concentration, you’ll have:

• Proficiency in constructing and managing investment portfolios with different risk levels, and quantitatively assessing and adjusting portfolio risk-return profiles.
• The ability to apply mathematical and statistical modeling in financial analytics in the context of equity and fixed income portfolios.
• Mastery in forecasting techniques to the analysis of macroeconomic factors and monetary and fiscal policy effects on security selection and portfolio evaluation.
• Comprehension and quantitative evaluation of derivative instruments to assess their role in portfolio risk adjustment and risk hedging to reduce portfolio volatility.
• Knowledge and ability to perform data organization, analysis, and visualization for domestic and global portfolio management.

The Graduate Certificate in Corporate Finance is designed for those currently working in, or seeking a career in, the corporate finance field—regarded as one of the most competitive areas within finance. 

BU MET’s Corporate Finance curriculum will help you acquire the foundational knowledge and tools needed for corporate financial analysis and capital budgeting, offering a unique opportunity to develop your analytical skills and critical thinking abilities through hands-on coursework and real-world case studies.

Want more? The Corporate Finance certificate is an excellent preparation for the internationally recognized Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) Program exams.

The Corporate Finance graduate certificate will equip you with:

• The ability to analyze financial statements and financial models.
• Skill in performing discounted cash flow analysis and valuation.
• Expertise in calculating net present values and internal rates of return.
• Understanding of investment rules and the ability to make capital investment decisions.
• Proficiency in risk analysis and capital budgeting.
• Understanding of the capital structure of the firm.
• The ability to use econometric methods to analyze financial data.
• The knowledge to analyze industry trends, regulations, and finance system participants.
• Comprehension of the significance and importance of ethical behavior in all aspects of business.
• The capacity to investigate and analyze how the changing regulatory environment in the US and abroad impacts finance.

The Graduate Certificate in Financial Management is designed to provide leaders and managers throughout an organization with essential skills for making intelligent business decisions. Those who complete the program will be qualified for positions in cash management, capital budgeting, and risk management.

You’ll receive a strong foundation in financial theory, acquire technical skills for developing analytical approaches, and improve your critical thinking abilities through hands-on coursework and real-world case studies.

The Financial Management certificate is an excellent preparation for the internationally recognized Chartered Financial Analyst^® (CFA) Program exams.

When you graduate with a Certificate in Financial Management, you’ll have:

• Expertise in how financial markets function.
• An understanding of the goals and functions of financial management.
• Skills in financial analysis and planning, working capital management, and the capital budgeting process.
• Knowledge of long-term financing.
• Proficiency in the overall investment process and the key elements involved, such as asset allocation and security selection.
• Understanding of debt, equity, and derivatives securities.
• The ability to construct portfolios of different risk levels, given information about risk-free rates and returns on risky assets.
• Full understanding of systematic and firm-specific risk, and portfolio diversification.
• Insight on the concept and usage of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
• Experience with the calculation of bond prices including accrued interest, promised yields, and realized yields.
• Competence with active bond portfolio management.
• Familiarity with how to analyze a firm using the basic financial statements to perform ratio analysis.
• Understanding of mergers and acquisitions through the case study methodology.

The Graduate Certificate in International Finance is designed for professionals whose work involves multinational corporations and global financial markets. The curriculum will equip you to address corporate questions pertaining to foreign exchange risk, transaction and translation exposure, and corporate strategy and foreign direct investment. 

As a graduate of the International Finance certificate program, you will be qualified for jobs in areas of credit risk evaluation, quantitative security selection, risk measurement and mitigation, cash management, and impact of foreign exchange rates on cost of capital and budgeting.

By completing this program in International Finance, you’ll have:

• Understanding of multinational financial management.
• Expertise in the concept of equilibrium exchange rates.
• Facility in calculating currency appreciations and depreciations.
• The ability to describe central bank currency interventions.
• The skills to differentiate between nominal and real exchange rates.
• The competency to describe the requirements for successful currency forecasting.
• The knowledge to distinguish between current, financial, and official reserve accounts.
• The ability to calculate a nation’s balance-of-payment.
• Proficiency in defining social, political, cultural, and economic country risks.
• Proficiency in defining translation and transaction exposures.
• Ease in identifying basic factors that determine foreign exchange risk for a company.
• The ability to determine the cost of capital for foreign investments.
• Understanding of the risks and advantages of international investing.
• The knowledge to describe international cash management.

The International Finance certificate is an excellent preparation for the internationally recognized Chartered Financial Analyst^® (CFA) Program exams.

The Graduate Certificate in Investment Analysis is designed for professionals already working in, or seeking positions in, investment research, risk management, security selection, and portfolio management.

As you study the overall investment process, as well as the key elements involved, such as asset allocation and security selection, you’ll obtain a basic understanding of debt, equity, and derivatives securities, such as options and futures contracts.

BU MET’s Investment Analysis graduate certificate introduces services provided by mutual funds and ensures that you are able to construct portfolios with different risk levels, while gaining an in-depth understanding of systematic and firm-specific risks—and how to reduce firm-specific risk by combining different securities in a portfolio. 

When you graduate, you’ll:

• Understand the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) concept.
• Be able to calculate bond prices, accrued interest, promised yields, and realized yields.
• Understand active bond portfolio management. 
• Learn how to value a firm using constant growth or multistage dividend discount models, financial statements, and financial ratio analysis.

The Investment Analysis certificate is excellent preparation for the internationally recognized Chartered Financial Analyst^® (CFA) Program exams.