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Universities / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Master of Finance (MFin)

A flexible Sloan masters with concentrations in capital markets, corporate finance, financial engineering, climate and social impact finance and fintech. Action Learning labs with industry partners are required, and students can cross-register at Harvard.

What you’ll study

Core

  • Foundations of Modern Finance
  • Financial Mathematics or Advanced Mathematical Methods for Financial Engineering
  • Programming for Finance Professionals
  • Corporate Financial Accounting
  • Finance Ethics & Regulation
  • Corporate Finance
  • Financial Markets
  • Analytics of Finance or Advanced Analytics of Finance
  • Communications course
  • Action Learning lab (Investment Management Lab, Private Equity/Investment Banking/Corporate Finance Lab, or Finance Lab)

Electives

  • Financial Engineering
  • Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance
  • AI and Money
  • AI and Machine Learning Research in Finance
  • Options and Futures Markets
  • Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives
  • Consumer Finance and Fintech
  • Modeling with Machine Learning: Financial Technology
  • Practice of Finance: Crypto Finance
  • Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Private Equity
  • Climate and Social Impact Investing

Source: mitsloan.mit.edu ↗

Before you apply

Background
Four-year undergraduate degree or three-year non-US equivalent by start

Source: mitsloan.mit.edu ↗

After graduation

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STEM-designated (eligible F-1 graduates may extend OPT by up to 24 months). Outcome pages were not retrievable; a fact sheet exists behind a registration form.

Checked 6 November 2026 against the sources linked on this page. Fees, units and requirements change each year, so confirm them on the programme’s website before applying.

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