Through the challenging, rigorous curriculum taught by leading finance scholars, students in the Asness and Liew Master in Finance Program build deep skills in valuation, financial modeling, data analysis, risk assessment, and financial decision-making.
The Asness and Liew MiF Program's core curriculum establishes a strong analytical foundation in finance and economics, while Areas of Specialization deepen knowledge and expertise aligned to each student’s career objectives.
The MiF curriculum combines foundational quantitative core classes with advanced specialized coursework and broad elective choice, allowing students to build deep expertise while tailoring their academic experience.
Time to complete:
15 months
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Core Courses Core courses provide you with an unmatched foundation in finance and economics. |
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Electives Specialize or Customize Select nine electives from more than 100 options. Create a personalized academic experience, or focus your choices within one of three Areas of Specialization: Asset Management, Investment Banking, or Fintech. |
Build the skills that drive confident financial decision-making.
Core courses establish a rigorous foundation in finance and economics, designed to strengthen quantitative reasoning and analytical precision.
You will take these four required core courses as a cohort with your classmates:
Through the core curriculum, students develop the ability to:
These foundational skills act as career accelerators, preparing students to contribute quickly in demanding finance roles and grow over time.
When it comes to your electives, there are two paths to your future career success.
All students in the MiF Program complete nine electives from a list of more than 100 elective courses. Most are taken with MBA students. Students have the option of fulfilling their electives requirement by either:
We encourage students to select an Area of Specialization from three choices:
Doing so shows future employers a student has deeper knowledge and expertise in a particular area.
Specialized coursework allows students to focus their learning while maintaining the flexibility to explore complementary topics through electives.
Program Electives: Specialize or CustomizeThrough intensive coursework in asset pricing, portfolio management, and financial markets, students develop the skills to evaluate risk and return, analyze securities across asset classes, and make informed investment decisions in global and institutional contexts.
Students who select Asset Management as their Area of Specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.
| Real Estate Investments I | Real Estate Investments II |
| Entrepreneurial Finance | Advanced Financial Analysis and Valuation for Global Firms |
| Navigating the ESG Landscape: Sustainability Information and Analysis | Impact Investing |
| International Financial Policy | Entrepreneurial Finance |
| Behavioral Finance | Advanced Models of Security Pricing and Credit Risk |
| Institutional Private Capital Investing | Financial Instruments |
| Portfolio Management | Quantitative Portfolio Management |
| Fixed Income Asset Pricing | Advanced Investments |
| Behavioral and Institutional Finance | Financial Econometrics |
Through rigorous coursework in corporate finance, private capital, and deal structuring, students build the ability to analyze complex transactions, assess risk and opportunity, and support strategic decisions across mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets.
Students who select Investment Banking as their Area of Specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.
| Deal Structuring and Financial Reporting Implications | Advanced Financial Analysis and Valuation for Global Firms |
| Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity | Impact Investing |
| Life Sciences: Innovation and Finance | Healthcare Finance |
| Public & Private Lending Markets: Investment Opps & Risks | Institutional Private Capital Investing |
| Cases in Financial Management | International Corporate Finance |
| Technology Strategy |
Through coursework spanning finance, innovation, and digital products, students build the skills to evaluate emerging technologies, design new financial solutions, and navigate the evolving intersection of finance, data, and technology.
Students who select Fintech as their Area of Specialization must complete any four of the courses listed below.
| New Venture Strategy | Building the New Venture |
| Quantitative Portfolio Management | Generative Thinking |
| The FinTech Revolution | Blockchains and Decentralized Finance |
| The Economics of Digital Asset Products and Markets | Lab in Developing New Products and Services |
| Advanced Investments | Consumer Finance |
| New Products and Services | Technology Strategy |
Research-driven teaching at the forefront of finance.
MiF students learn from Booth faculty who are among the most influential finance scholars in the world. Their research shapes how markets, institutions, and investors understand risk, valuation, and decision-making.
In the classroom, faculty challenge students to think independently, test assumptions, and apply theory to real financial problems—bridging academic rigor with practical relevance.
Faculty insights extend beyond the classroom through Chicago Booth Review, where our finance faculty regularly translate their ongoing finance research into timely, real-world perspectives on markets, investing, and financial innovation.
Learn From Leading Finance Faculty
Boothcamp is a required two-week experience in Chicago that begins in late August, before the start of Autumn Quarter. Boothcamp features both academic activities and professional development opportunities.
Students participate in hands-on programming to:
The skills students develop include:
In parallel, students work on key interpersonal skills that will be fundamental to their success in business school and as a business professional.
Boothcamp Experience
Your development as a professional is a critical part of the MiF Program. As a complement to foundational coursework in business disciplines, the curriculum includes a cocurricular course designed to prepare students for the recruiting process. This is a course that you take at the beginning of the program, starting in Boothcamp and running into Autumn Quarter.
This course covers three areas, each of which is essential to launching and managing a successful career:
A speaker series that brings the world of finance to MiF students.
Booth's Specialized Masters Program Speaker Series regularly brings guest speakers from leading finance firms to Booth. Enhancing what students learn in the classroom with insights from their experience, these top finance executives bring real-world perspective to MiF students. The sessions explore how financial decisions are made in practice—and how careers in finance evolve over time.
Recent speakers have included top executives from Morningstar, Goldman Sachs, Northern Trust, Google, and McKinsey.
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