Our finance curriculum is taught by the world’s leading finance scholars—with an unmatched legacy of award-winning research and innovation—including Nobel laureate Eugene F. Fama, considered the father of modern finance, and fellow Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen.
Booth’s finance MBA curriculum takes an empirical approach to the evaluation of risk and reward.
Our corporate finance offerings will prepare you at the business level: Should a company buy or build? Should it borrow money or issue stock? How should it compensate executives? Should it hedge costs, and if so, how?
Investment courses prepare you to make decisions in financial markets: What determines stock and bond prices? How do you evaluate a fund manager? What financial risks carry big rewards, and how should an investor allocate his or her portfolio to take advantage of them?
In our collaborative culture of inquiry and debate, you'll learn to look beyond easy answers to find better solutions.
Customize your MBA education with a concentration in finance by choosing four finance courses to match your interests. Here are just a few of the options.
This course develops, critically assesses, and applies theories of pricing derivatives. Topics include forward contracts, futures, and swaps; pricing forwards and futures; interest rate and currency swaps; options and no-arbitrage restrictions; and trading strategies and slope and convexity restrictions.
This quantitative course presents advanced material relevant for portfolio managers. Topics include the money management industry (mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds), modern techniques for optimal portfolio selection, liquidity and transaction costs, properties of asset returns, and investment strategies designed to exploit apparent violations of market efficiency.
This is an advanced course in corporate finance. The course studies financial institutions, financial crises, and the design of financial contracts. The economic role of various types of debt contracts is one theme. The strategic effects of the bankruptcy and reorganization process is another. The perspective is that of the chief financial officer (CFO), who must choose a source of funds, choosing between issuing securities directly to the public versus borrowing from an intermediary such as a bank or insurance company.
To see more finance courses, visit our course catalog and search by concentration area for your program of interest.
UChicago faculty members have earned the American Finance Association’s Fischer Black Prize four of the eight years it has been awarded. At Booth, you’ll learn about the forces shaping global capital markets from faculty members who conduct groundbreaking research and who have served in roles ranging from presidential advisor to member of the board of governors for the Federal Reserve.
Our finance faculty conduct research that’s making significant contributions to the field, and Chicago Booth Review regularly writes about their work.
Insights from Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales, Jessica S. Jeffers, and Samuel Hartzmark help explain shareholders’ and managers’ new views of the business of business.
Why We’re All Impact Investors Now
Keeping people out of debt traps isn’t as simple as paying off their loans, according to research by Chicago Booth’s Sendhil Mullainathan and others.
Given an Out, People Still Fall Back into Debt
Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber finds that investors could earn significant short-term gains on monetary policy using a simple trading strategy.
How to Make Money on Fed Announcements—with Less Risk
Faculty members at Booth are connected to some of the most important leaders across industry. Our faculty regularly invite these leading practitioners and influencers to speak to students in the Booth classroom, providing you with greater access to learn, network, and grow.
Learn from Industry ExpertsChicago Booth MBA students have access to several interdisciplinary centers that fund faculty research, host workshops and conferences, and foster a strong research community.
Bringing together researchers from the entire Chicago economics community, the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics fosters novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems.
Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
An affiliate of Chicago Booth, CRSP, LLC is the leading provider of historical stock market data for researchers. The center has long been an integral part of the academic and commercial world of financial and economic research.
Center for Research in Security Prices, LLC
The Fama-Miller Center was founded to promote and enhance academic research in finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance
The Clark Center for Global Markets organizes Booth faculty efforts to influence public policy and the practice of business around the world. By hosting expert panels, visiting thought leaders, and conferences, the Clark Center raises the impact of Booth research.
Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets
The Stigler Center confronts conventional thinking and investigates the obstacles preventing markets from being truly competitive.
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
As Booth’s social impact hub, the Rustandy Center offers hands-on learning opportunities, supports innovative courses, and pursues research—all with the goal of developing people and practices with the potential to solve the world’s biggest problems.
Rustandy Center for Social Sector InnovationDevelop your skills, meet new people, and build a dynamic global network. As an MBA finance student at Booth, you’ll have many opportunities to get involved in student groups, competitions, and other activities.
Test your theories and gain valuable experience in some of the world’s most prestigious competitions on campus and around the globe.
Participate in a Competition
Get involved, develop new skills, and meet new people in a wide array of student-led groups.
Join a Full-Time MBA Group
Pursue your interests and expand your network by joining a student-led group for Part-Time MBA students.
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