Financial Services Analytics (PhD)

Degree Requirements (45-54 Credits)

Core (18)

• FSAN 815 - Analytics I: Statistical Learning (3cr.) * or
• ELEG 815 - Analytics I: Statistical Learning (3cr.) *

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• FSAN 820 - Foundation of Optimization (3cr.)
• FSAN 830 - Business Process Management Innov (3cr.)
• CISC 683 - Introduction to Data Mining (3cr.)

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• FINC 841 - Financial Services Markets (3cr.) * or
• FSAN 841 - Financial Services Markets (3cr.) *

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• FINC 842 - Financial Services Risk Analytics (3cr.) * or
• FSAN 842 - Financial Services Risk Analytics (3cr.) *

Required Class (3)

• BUAD 840 - Ethical Issues in Domestic and Global Business Environments (3cr.)

Electives (9)

• FSAN 817 - Large Scale Machine Learning (3cr.) or
• ELEG 817 - Large Scale Machine Learning (3cr.)

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• MISY 831 - Enterprise Information Systems (3cr.) or
• FSAN 831 - Enterprise Information Systems (3cr.)

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• FINC 843 - Financial Services Regulation (3cr.) * or
• FSAN 843 - Financial Services Regulation (3cr.) *

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• ACCT 804 - Database Design and Implementation (3cr.)
• ACCT 806 - Object-oriented Systems Analysis, Design and Implementation (3cr.)
• ACCT 817 - Information Technologies Audit (3cr.)
• ACCT 820 - Financial Statement Analysis (3cr.)
• CISC 684 - Introduction to Machine Learning (3cr.)
• CISC 681 - Artificial Intelligence (3cr.)
• CISC 886 - Multi-Agent Systems (3cr.)
• ELEG 630 - Information Theory (3cr.)
• ELEG 636 - Statistical Signal Processing (3cr.)
• ECON 801 - Microeconomics (3cr.)
• ECON 803 - Applied Econometrics I (3cr.)
• ECON 810 - Mathematics for Economists (3cr.)
• ECON 861 - Industrial Organization and Regulation (3cr.)
• FINC 855 - Capital Markets & Financial Institutions (3cr.)
• FINC 856 - Financial Engineering and Risk Management (3cr.)
• FINC 870 - Theory of Financial Decision Making (3cr.)
• FINC 871 - Workshop in Finance: Seminar (3cr.)
• MATH 612 - Computational Methods for Equation Solving and Function Min (3cr.)
• MATH 630 - Probability Theory and Applications (3cr.)
• MATH 631 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes (3cr.)
• MATH 672 - Vector Spaces (3cr.)
• MATH 829 - Topics in Mathematics (3cr.)
• APEC 801 - Applied Demand and Marketing Analysis (3cr.)
• STAT 601 - Probability Theory for Operations Research and Statistics (3cr.)
• STAT 602 - Mathematical Statistics (3cr.)
• STAT 611 - Regression Analysis (3cr.)
• STAT 615 - Design and Analysis of Experiments (3cr.)
• STAT 617 - Multivariate Methods (3cr.)
• STAT 674 - Applied Data Base Management (3cr.)
• STAT 675 - Logistic Regression (3cr.)
• FSAN 850 - Financial Services Analytics Seminar (3cr.)
• FSAN 860 - Current Research Topics (1 to 9cr.)
• FSAN 969 - Doctoral Dissertation (9cr.)

Note:

* FSAN 815 /ELEG 815  and  FSAN 817 /ELEG 817  are housed in and administered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The courses will be cross-listed with FSAN as the secondary designation.

* FINC 841 , FINC 842 , FINC 843  are housed in and administered by the Department of Finance. FINC is the primary designation of FINC 841 , FINC 842  and FINC 843 . The courses will be cross-listed with FSAN as the secondary designation.