Financial Services Analytics (PhD)

Degree Requirements (45-54 Credits)

Core (18)

• ELEG 815 - Analytics I: Statistical Learning Credit(s): 3 *
• FSAN 820 - Foundation of Optimization Credit(s): 3
• FSAN 830 - Business Process Management Innov Credit(s): 3
• CISC 683 - Introduction to Data Mining Credit(s): 3
• FINC 841 - Financial Services Markets Credit(s): 3 *
• FINC 842 - Financial Services Risk Analytics Credit(s): 3 *

Required Class (3)

• BUAD 640 - Ethical Issues in Domestic and Global Business Environments Credit(s): 3

Electives (9)

• ELEG 817 - Large Scale Machine Learning Credit(s): 3
• MISY 831 - Enterprise Information Systems Credit(s): 3
• ACCT 604 - Database Design and Implementation Credit(s): 3
• ACCT 606 - Object-oriented Systems Analysis, Design and Implementation Credit(s): 3
• ACCT 817 - Information Technologies Audit Credit(s): 3
• ACCT 625 - Financial Statement Analysis Credit(s): 3
• CISC 684 - Introduction to Machine Learning Credit(s): 3
• CISC 681 - Artificial Intelligence Credit(s): 3
• CISC 886 - Multi-Agent Systems Credit(s): 3
• ELEG 630 - Information Theory Credit(s): 3
• ELEG 636 - Statistical Signal Processing Credit(s): 3
• ECON 622 - Applied Econometrics I Credit(s): 3
• ECON 861 - Industrial Organization and Regulation Credit(s): 3
• FINC 612 - Capital Markets & Financial Institutions Credit(s): 3
• FINC 616 - Derivative Securities and Risk Management Credit(s): 3
• FINC 670 - Theory of Financial Decision Making Credit(s): 3
• FINC 671 - Workshop in Finance: Seminar Credit(s): 3
• MATH 612 - Computational Methods for Equation Solving and Function Min Credit(s): 3
• MATH 630 - Probability Theory and Applications Credit(s): 3
• MATH 631 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes Credit(s): 3
• MATH 672 - Vector Spaces Credit(s): 3
• MATH 829 - Topics in Mathematics Credit(s): 3
• APEC 801 - Microeconomic Theory and Behavior Credit(s): 3
• STAT 601 - Probability Theory for Operations Research and Statistics Credit(s): 3
• STAT 602 - Mathematical Statistics Credit(s): 3
• STAT 611 - Regression Analysis Credit(s): 3
• STAT 615 - Design and Analysis of Experiments Credit(s): 3
• STAT 674 - Applied Data Base Management Credit(s): 3
• STAT 675 - Logistic Regression Credit(s): 3
• FSAN 850 - Financial Services Analytics Seminar Credit(s): 3
• FSAN 860 - Current Research Topics Credit(s): 1-9
• FSAN 969 - Doctoral Dissertation Credit(s): 9

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