Employers are interested in connecting with recruits who have unique backgrounds and perspectives—people who bring something new to solving problems, who approach their work differently. You'll stand out with our STEM-designated MS in Finance, which enables you to build on your undergraduate degree with in-demand skills in finance.
About the Kelley MS in Finance degree
31.5
credit hours
without boot camp
37.5
credit hours
with boot camp
48%
student selected
courses
You can complete the MSF degree in less than one year or in 18 months if you choose to do the extended program model which includes an internship.
No business degree required
The Kelley MS in Finance curriculum complements an undergraduate degree in another field—such as liberal arts, engineering, political science, and economics—with advanced training in finance. The power of the degree lies in this pairing—a rarity highly valued by Kelley’s large network of recruiting companies.
Tell us about yourself to learn more about powering your career with an MS in Finance degree from Kelley.
Business Foundations Boot Camp
The Business Foundations Boot Camp is an intensive four-week program that provides exposure to core business disciplines such as finance, accounting, marketing, operations, strategic management, and quantitative methods. Starting in June, Boot Camp will help you gain the broader business perspective that financial analysts need to be effective in their work. Complete the pre-application advising form to set up a meeting with MSF program staff to review requirements.
Areas of expertise
You will develop skills such as:
- Risk management
- Asset allocation
- Capital budgeting
- Financial modeling
- Treasury management
- Capital structure analysis and management
- Asset and company valuation
- Currency management
The Kelley MSF Degree explained
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00:00:00:00 - 00:00:35:09Unknown
The MSF program is master of Science and Finance, and it's really aimed at people who want to take a deep dive into finance and step into careers that are genuinely a step above what undergraduates are typically going to get. It's a one year program and we're very confident in our ability to take students with a wide range of backgrounds, give them the basics that they need, and then take them in those deeper dives into finance and now can bring that different perspective into the business environment and help businesses do things better.
00:00:35:11 - 00:01:02:10
Unknown
We want them to be able to leverage this out of the box, thinking that they have with the necessary finance skills to succeed in these larger roles that we envision them for. They need to be creative in harnessing the tools of finance to confront the decisions that they they'll face when a student gets a degree from us. They have genuine and high quality career opportunities ahead of them.
00:01:02:12 - 00:01:24:23
Unknown
We worked with the Career Services Office. They're terrific at providing coaching services to students who are just starting out to think about their careers, and they're also terrific at bringing in the right kinds of companies here who understand the Kelley student and who are anxious to bring them into their firms. We have a long history of successful leaders that have been graduates from Kelley.
00:01:24:23 - 00:01:53:19
Unknown
A huge value that we see in Kelley students is that they're not just doers. They're able to take it to that next level and give suggestions and think outside of the box. They are part of this strategic thought process that we have. The Kelley students have a high level of business acumen. You can give them an example or you explain to them the type of business that we run and they're able to associate of financial applications that they've learned in the classroom to real work experience.
00:01:53:21 - 00:02:19:11
Unknown
Students, especially outside of business, are going to be able to come into this program, get a really excellent grounding in the field of finance and be ready to go from day one upon graduation into a high level quality position where they can apply right away What they've learned here in the program.
Learn from world-class finance faculty
With over 60 faculty members conducting state-of-the-art research and holding deep industry experience, the Department of Finance at the Kelley School of Business is widely recognized as one of the premier finance departments in the world.
This group influences the finance profession through their cutting-edge research, other business schools through their leading textbook publications, and public policy and corporate practice through their expert testimony and consulting work.