跨专业申请金融专业先修课要求
以Boston College为例
BC的金融硕士项目 每年申请人数超过1000,录取率6% 国际学生毕业三个月的就业率2014年为16% 2015为19%
Those few international students who in recent years have obtained jobs in the United States possessed the following characteristics:
1Exceptional English language skills
2An undergraduate degree in a business discipline, including finance and/or accounting
3Significant work experience relevant to the specific job obtained
4Entered the job market with a clear understanding of where their skills/experience and graduate degree positioned them in the organization
申请BC 的MSF项目必须修过以下课程:
FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME PREREQUISITES
ACCOUNTING (会计)
Students should have completed a course focused on the development and use of accounting information to evaluate the status and performance of business enterprises. Specifically, students should have a thorough grounding in the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. The course should cover reporting of information for use by persons and institutions outside the enterprise as well as the use of accounting information in managerial decision making.
CALCULUS (微积分)
Students should have completed an introductory course in Calculus covering a brief review of polynomials, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions, followed by discussion of limits, derivatives, and applications of differential calculus to real-world problem areas. The course concludes with an introduction to integration.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (财务管理)
Students should have completed an introductory course in Finance that covers projected financial statements, the time value of money, capital budgeting, financial leverage, security valuation, risk/return, working capital management, and international finance. The course should also cover financial statistical analysis and tools of planning and control.
STATISTICS (统计)
Students should have completed a course focusing on the analytical tools of statistics that are applicable to management practice. The course should include descriptive statistics and probability and progress to inferential statistics relative to central tendency and dispersion. In addition to basic concepts of estimation and hypothesis testing, the course should include coverage of topics such as analysis of variance, regression, probability, hypothesis testing, Z-scores, P-values, the standard normal distribution, OLS regression, t-statistics, and Chi-square distributions.
ADJUNCT COURSE
The MSF Program also requires that students have a basic understanding of economics. Students must complete undergraduate- or graduate-level course work in microeconomics and macroeconomics before the MSF degree will be conferred. This coursework is not required to start the program.