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Master of Business Administration in Finance

Master of Business Administration in Finance (MBA-Finance)

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Admission Requirements

In addition to the general admission requirements and procedures, applicants wishing to be considered for admission to the Master of Business Administration in Finance program must have:
 
MBA in Finance Admission Requirements
 
1. Bachelor’s Degree
  • A 4-year undergraduate degree from an accredited institution
  • Any field is usually accepted (business, engineering, arts, etc.)
  • Minimum GPA requirement (often 3.0 or equivalent, varies by school)
2. Entrance Exams
  • GMAT/GRE waivers (based on experience or GPA)
  • Test-optional MBA programs
3. Work Experience
  • Typically 2–5 years of professional experience (optional)
What matters:
  • Leadership experience
  • Career progression
  • Impact at work
4. Resume (CV)
  • Professional resume highlighting:
  • Work experience
  • Achievements
  • Leadership roles
  • Skills
5. Statement of Purpose (SOP) / Essays
Explain:
  • Why you want an MBA
  • Career goals
  • Why this school
This is one of the most important parts of your application.
 
6. Letters of Recommendation
Usually 1–3 letters
From:
  • Managers
  • Professors
  • Professional mentors
7. English Language Test (if applicable)
For international students:
  • IELTS or TOEFL
8. Interview
Interviews (online or in-person)
Focus on:
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Career clarity

Program Objectives

  1. To prepare the student for a career in financial management, specifically to undertake the various financial
    management functions in managing financial institutions, as well as the functions of the financial manager or the
    treasurer in non-financial institutions.
  2. Expand students’ skills in communicating financial knowledge. Both written and oral communication skills will be
    improved.
  3. The Program also intends to prepare the student for responsibilities in regulatory and policy-making functions
    affecting financial markets and institutions.
  4. The Program provides the student with a strong foundation in theory, principles, and concepts of finance. In
    addition, the student is introduced to analytical tools and perspectives that shall provide a firm basis for financial
    decision-making.
  5. Encourage professional socialization to provide students with a strong personal sense of identification with the
    finance profession, awareness of their social responsibilities, and acceptance of the personal discipline needed
    to be productive members of the profession.

Program Outline:

Course Number Course Name Academic Engagement Hours Total Semester Credits
Semester I – Term A
ISM 5403 Enterprise Information Systems 45 3
MGT 5015 Legal, Ethical, and Social Values of Business 45 3
Semester I – Term B
MGT 5020 Managing Organizational Behavior 45 3
ECO 5050 Economic Thinking 45 3
Semester II – Term A
MKT 5070 Managerial Marketing 45 3
FIN 5080 Applying Managerial Finance 45 3
Semester II – Term B
OPS 5095 Service Operations Management 45 3
QNT 5040 Business Modeling 45 3
Semester III – Term A
FIN 5530 Money Markets and Monetary Institutions 45 3
FIN 5535 Futures and Options 45 3
Semester III – Term B
FIN 5560 Advanced Financial Policy 45 3
FIN 5620 Investment Principles and Policies 45 3
FIN 5502 Finance Capstone 45 3
Total: 585 39

Course Description:

Information and communication technologies are essential tools in today’s global business environment. They are also crucial to the development of innovative business models. This course explores the use of these technologies to build innovative systems that gain a competitive advantage, as well as to optimize operations for competitive advantage, particularly through the use of enterprise systems. The implementation and use of these systems to build strategic partnerships and customer relationships are also discussed.
Students will gain an understanding of the meaning and importance of the law, ethics, personal morality, and corporate social responsibility. The students will be able to differentiate between the values of legality, morality, ethics, and corporate social responsibility. They will become more cognizant of the legal, ethical, moral, and social responsibility ramifications to business decision-making. They will learn how to apply these values in a modern business context. The students will be able to analyze business decisions from legal, ethical, and social responsibility perspectives.
Managing Organizational Behavior: Students will gain a working knowledge of how to manage personal, interpersonal, and group processes by developing their interpersonal skills to assume responsibility for leading and promoting teamwork among diverse stakeholders. Students will learn to manage individual and group behaviors in improving organizational productivity and performance. Through experiential learning, students will learn to integrate observations and experiences from home, work, and education, and convert them into proactive, practical applications for growth and renewal in these diverse settings.
Economic Thinking is a methodology that focuses on the role of incentives in the marketplace. The course reviews the components of markets, how markets function, factors that influence consumer and producer behavior, market structures, market power, and the appropriate role of government in the marketplace. The second part of the course focuses on the measures of economic activity used to assess the impact of inflation, unemployment, economic growth, and exchange rates on the national and local economy.
Students will gain a working knowledge of marketing management by learning to think strategically and develop marketing plans that align marketing initiatives with market opportunities. Students will be able to implement the functional strategies and marketing plans to optimize customer and organizational value.
Students will learn the fundamental concepts and analytical techniques necessary to comprehend, identify, and resolve financial decision-making problems. Topics covered in this course include time value of money, financial statement analysis, risk and return, corporate valuation, capital budgeting, and using Excel for economic analysis.
This course focuses on service management in general and service operations in particular. It explores the elements that unite services, differentiate service processes from non-service processes, and distinguish various types of services from one another. Customers typically participate in the service process, often engaging in direct and uncensored interactions with employees and facilities. The resulting variations in demand present a challenge for the operations manager to utilize perishable service capacity effectively. This results from the co-occurrence of production and consumption, and thus the inability to inventory services. The course covers strategic and tactical issues associated with designing and managing service operations. It provides tools to help assess operations, redesign processes, and establish systems to ensure an excellent customer experience.
This course covers the techniques of problem-solving, optimization, and business modeling using statistical concepts and management science in a spreadsheet environment. The course focuses on the practical application of quantitative analytical techniques. Prerequisites: FINP 5008 and QNTP 5002 or equivalents.
This course examines the structure and functions of modern US and international financial markets and institutions. The course covers the nature of the global economic system, interest rate determination, pricing of interest-rate dependent securities, money market instruments, the goals and roles of central banks, and commercial banking. Students will develop a thorough understanding of modern financial institutions and will learn to apply modern economic theory to practical problems in liability pricing and management. Prerequisites: FIN 5080.
This course examines the structure and functions of the futures and options markets. The course covers the structure of options and futures markets with an emphasis on American markets such as the CME and CBOE. Additional topics include arbitrage restrictions, option pricing, hedging with futures, options on futures, exotics, trading strategies, and an introduction to corporate securities as options on the underlying cash flows.
The course covers basic financial policies as applied to real management problems. It includes the areas of liquidity, capital management, funding requirements, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, and funding of new ventures. Prerequisites: FIN 5080.
This course will deal with a thorough analysis of the theory and application of investments in relation to business cycles, institutional behavior, and risk and return opportunities in the economics setting. The course is presented from the investor’s viewpoint and incorporates applied and empirical methodologies. The course covers investment strategies and policies. Prerequisites: QNT 5040 and FIN 5080.
The finance capstone course utilizes case studies to integrate coursework, knowledge, skills, and experiential learning, enabling students to demonstrate a broad mastery of financial policies as applied to real-world management problems within today’s multinational enterprises. It covers a wide range of topics from corporate financial management and financial institutions to investments and international finance. Additionally, the course examines international parity conditions, arbitrage, interest rate and currency derivative products, financial and operating hedges, and capital budgeting in a global environment. Prerequisites: FIN 5530, FIN 5535, FIN 5560, and FIN 5620.

Total Credits Hours

39

Disclaimer: Ember University, P.C reserve the right, because of changing conditions, to make modifications of any nature in academic programs and requirements of the university and its constituent colleges without advance notice. Students are advised to consult regularly with an academic advisor concerning their programs of study.
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