Financial Analytics
Equips students to harness the power of data to solve financial challenges and support strategic business decisions. Through coursework in financial modeling, data analysis, forecasting, and business intelligence, students develop the technical and analytical skills needed to uncover insights from complex financial data.
Students who'd like to study financial analytics fully online should visit OSU Ecampus.
Overview
Financial analytics is an emerging field in finance that focuses on advanced quantitative side of financial analysis.
Coursework includes traditional financial topics such as investments, portfolio analysis, derivatives and financial modeling, but with an additional focus on data and business analytics. Analytics skills such as data collection, analysis, visualization and communication are at the forefront of the field of finance and translate into excellence in forecasting, modeling, reporting and optimization.
The specialized master’s in business allows you to customize the degree with a wide range of electives.
What you’ll learn
Apply core concepts and tools in the finance discipline that address current business challenges and evaluate the tradeoff between risk and reward using appropriate quantitative methods.
Coursework topics include financial and cost analysis, corporate finance and data analytics for a competitive advantage and investments.
Our master’s of science in financial analytics graduates are ready to meet the demand for advanced financial decision-making, and also gain a strong quantitative and analytical focus for a wide range of career opportunities.
Program statistics
Job placement rate for graduates of the OSU graduate business programs
Ranked Oregon business programs
Industry insiders on our advising council
Learning outcomes
Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
Analyze the impact of an enterprise on its various stakeholders.
Propose and collect data necessary to inform a discipline-based evaluation of a complex business challenge.
Apply critical thinking skills to a business challenge in the presence of uncertainty and ambiguity.
Ways to attend
Attend classes in Austin Hall, the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building with five research centers, a marketing research suite, 10 classrooms, 23 computer- and teleconference-equipped project rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a café and faculty offices.
Study from anywhere and earn one of our 100% online, fully AACSB-accredited business degrees. Nationally top-ranked for online learning, our classes are taught by business faculty who are known for research excellence and industry experience.
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Oregon State Investment Group
The Oregon State Investment Group is a student-led asset management organization that provides portfolio management on behalf of the Oregon State University Foundation. MBA students and undergraduate students work together to provide high-caliber sector analysis and portfolio management.
Founded in 2007, OSIG members perform in-depth equity research, fundamental valuation techniques and portfolio management. OSIG assets under management, exceeding $4 million, are dispersed between three distinct portfolios: the Large-Cap Portfolio, the D.A. Davidson Competition Portfolio, and the Global Portfolio.
The OSU Foundation is a nonprofit organization that partners with Oregon State University to engage the OSU community, inspire investment and steward resources to enhance the university's excellence and impact.
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