Finance and General Business Department

Finance Graduate Certificate

Elizabeth Rozell, Graduate Program Director
Glass Hall, Room 223, Phone: 417-836-5616
Email: mbaprogram@missouristate.edu
Website: http://mba.missouristate.edu/

Elizabeth Reger, Graduate Program Coordinator
Glass Hall, Room 223 Phone 417-836-5616
ElizabethReger@MissouriState.edu

Review the following Program Costs and Potential Occupations (Gainful Employment Disclosure).

Program description

  • The Graduate Certificate in Finance provides a 12 hours graduate-level experience in the area of finance. 
  • The program involves in depth study of finance, including exposure to international issues.  Contact the MBA Director or Program Coordinator for additional information.

Admission

  • Candidates for the certificate program must be admitted to the University as a graduate student.
  • The candidate should have a bachelor’s degree and meet minimum admission criteria for the Master of Business Administration program.
  • All course work must be approved by the MBA Program Director.
  • EMBA students must have a program of study approved by the Director of the EMBA program.

Required courses (12 hrs)

Course Code Course Title Credit Hours
FIN 785 Investment Management 3 hrs

FIN 787

OR

FIN 790

Seminar in Derivatives

OR

Seminar in Finance

 3 hrs

FIN 682

OR

FIN 686

International Financial Management

OR

International Financial Statement Analysis

 3 hrs

Complete one 1 additional course from the following:

Course Code Course Title Credit Hours
FIN 638 Introduction to Estate Planning 3 hrs
FIN 681 Professional Financial Planning 3 hrs
FIN 682 International Financial Management 3 hrs
FIN 686 International Financial Statement Analysis 3 hrs
FIN 689 Management of Financial Institutions 3 hrs
FIN 698 Financial Research & Portfolio Management 3 hrs
FIN 699 Directed Study for CFA Level I Exam 3 hrs
FIN 785 Investment Management 3 hr
FIN 787 Seminar in Derivatives 3 hrs
FIN 790 Seminar in Finance 3 hrs
FIN 792 International Study Away in Finance 3 hrs
FIN 795 Domestic Study Away in Finance 3 hrs

No more than six hours of 600-level coursework may be used toward the Graduate Certificate in Finance

1 If a student already completed FIN 582 and FIN 586, the student must take two (2) courses from the "Complete one additional courses..." list (excluding FIN 682 and FIN 686) and satisfy the international requirement for the MBA program with a non-finance course.

GPA requirement

Students must have a 3.00 GPA on all coursework used toward the certificate. No course with a grade of C- or below can be used for the program.

Program Costs and Potential Occupations (Gainful Employment Disclosure)