Go beyond a conventional finance and business education with our intensive Full-Time MS in Finance/MBA program. As technological advances redefine how the world does business, you'll unlock the interdisciplinary skills needed to identify and solve both old and new business problems and create effective and innovative financial solutions. You'll also gain a deep understanding of game-changing technologies and fields, all while you prepare to lead in finance.
Program Overview
- Program Structure: 67 credits plus a paid corporate residency of up to 12 months
- Class Schedule: Monday–Friday
- Time to Complete: Two and a half years on average
Full-Time MS in Finance/MBA | Program timeline

Unique Features
CFA
build knowledge aligned with the Chartered Financial Analyst exams
2 finance tracks
select a study track in either finance or quantitative finance
2.5
years to complete on average
- Leverage data and technology in financial decision-making
- Select one of two study tracks: Finance or Quantitative Finance, and choose a concentration aligned with your professional goals
- Earn a salary through your corporate residency, where you'll apply what you've learned in an intensive work experience with significant responsibilities
- Perform equity research and portfolio management with the student-managed 360 Huntington Fund responsible for over $1.2M of the School's endowment
- Apply what you've learned as you advise a startup through the IDEA Venture Accelerator
- Complete a transformative global or domestic consulting project
- Get personalized career guidance from the D'Amore-McKim Graduate Career Center
Meet our students
Army veteran pursues passion for finance
“I don't think I could have logically gone from construction to the Navy and then straight into corporate finance without the MS in Finance/MBA program—this degree made that transition possible,” says Ross Whelton, MS in Finance/MBA'22
Acquiring the necessary tools to become a leader in finance
“I'm really looking to continue my career in finance and develop as a manager and leader. The Master's in Finance portion broadens my knowledge of finance and strengthens my day-to-day work at Acadian.” says Brian Whyte, MS in Finance/ MBA'22
Admissions
- GMAT/GRE required? Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business is currently test-optional and does not require applicants to submit GRE or GRE scores. For more information, review our admissions policies.
- English language proficiency: English proficiency, both written and verbal, is necessary for success in D'Amore-McKim classrooms. For more information, review our admissions policies.
- Where do I apply? Learn more here.
- Interview required? By invitation.
Admissions at D'Amore-McKim – Deadlines & Decisions
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Once you are a student, your financial aid advisor will work with you one-on-one to answer your questions, point you to resources and provide valuable insight as you navigate the financial commitments of your program.
At Northeastern, we value and celebrate diversity in all its forms and strive to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds community, which is vital to learning and discovery.
Scholarships and Fellowships
D'Amore-McKim offers and partners with organizations that provide a variety of scholarships and fellowships to foster diversity and inclusion. Examples of these include The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Graduate Fellowship, Prospansica MBA Scholarship, Posse MBA Scholarship and Reach Out MBA Fellowship.
Clubs and Organizations
Northeastern has many opportunities for you to be engaged with our community. Examples include the following:
Graduate Students of Color Collective
The purpose of the GSCC is to build community for graduate students of color at Northeastern University by promoting education, professionalism, and civic duty. The GSCC fosters student, staff, and faculty relationships to establish a campus home for higher education at Northeastern. Through civic engagement with surrounding communities, the GSCC recognizes the continued struggles of marginalized populations, and the need for those who have succeeded to give back.
Grad Q
Grad Q is a student organization for LGBTQ+ graduate students at Northeastern. Grad Q is focused on building community, social events, advocacy, and mentoring undergraduate students.
Campus Resources
We have a number of cultural centers on campus to support our campus community by providing programs, lectures, and events for students with a range of affiliations and interests including the LGBTQA Resource Center, Office of Global Services, Latinx Student Cultural Center, Asian American Center, and many more.
Curriculum
The Full-Time MS in Finance/MBA program offers two curriculum tracks: Finance and Quantitative Finance. Choose the Finance track and gain advanced financial skills and high-level knowledge to drive financial strategy, increase shareholder value, support flexible operating models, minimize risk, and maximize revenue. Choose the Quantitative Finance track and develop advanced mathematical and technological skills through a challenging curriculum that integrates finance with other disciplines such as economics, mathematics, and computer science.
Regardless of which track you choose, you'll develop your financial and analytical knowledge and participate in our corporate residency at a leading company or startup. You'll learn from world-class finance scholars and business leaders who understand today's challenges because they've experienced them firsthand. If you want to pursue the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, your coursework will help you prepare for the exams.
Choose Your Track
Quantitative Track
Our Quantitative Finance Track emphasizes the intersection of technology and business analytics with finance.
Core Curriculum
Marketing
Examines the role of marketing as an organizational function and a set of processes to manage offerings that provide superior value to customers. Focuses on developing student skill in analyzing the customer and business environment and using that analysis to build an effective marketing strategy. Emphasizes methods for the identification, acquisition, and retention of customers in a way that provides mutual value to the customer and the organization.
MKTG 6318 | 2 Hours
Strategic Decision Making
Highlights managerial decisions affecting a company's performance in generating revenues, controlling costs, and producing profits. Begins with a brief review of financial accounting, then focuses on the development and use of information, especially financial information, for managerial decisions related to the firm's planning—operations—control cycle.
ACCT 6318 | 2 Hours
Provides the fundamental concepts for understanding and managing strategy in a competitive context. Focuses on analysis, critical thinking, and making strategic decisions. Discusses the analytical tools to understand the industry and firm context. Explores the design and execution of strategies to compete successfully. Investigates the strategic changes involved as firms grow and expand into new businesses and geographic markets.
STRT 6318 | 2 Hours
Management
Introduces time value of money calculations and applications. Building upon a basis in accounting, offers students an opportunity to learn how to extract relevant information from the accounting statements for use in financial calculations and ratio analysis. Also examines capital planning, including determining relevant cash flows, calculating decision measures, and making the correct decisions.
FINA 6318 | 2 Hours
Offers key insights every business professional should understand working in, managing, and leading organizations in today's complex, diverse, and dynamic business environment. The primary goal of this course is to challenge—and improve—students' understanding of human behavior in organizations so that they are better positioned to strategically leverage human capital. Introduces critical theories and concepts through case analyses, debates, TED Talks, and exercises that aim to help students understand, analyze, and ultimately address real business situations and problems.
HRMG 6318 | 2 Hours
Focuses on the integrative management of processes and activities involved in transformation and delivery of goods and services. Emphasizes foundational knowledge on supply chain and operations management concepts, techniques, and functions. Topics covered include sourcing and procurement, manufacturing and service operations, logistics management, process design and control, inventory management, interfirm relationship management, and attendant information flows.
SCHM 6318 | 2 Hours
Innovation and Social Impact
Explores how business practices affect society and how society affects business practices. Addresses topics such as social impact investing, sustainable supply chains, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and global perspectives on corporate citizenship. Business and society have never been more intertwined. Executives are increasingly called upon to consider the larger societal impacts of their decisions and at the same time find themselves subject to demands from multiple societal stakeholders that include customers, suppliers, employees, governments, and interest groups, among others.
BUSN 6363 | 2 Hours
Introduces a number of entrepreneurship and innovation topics, including innovation and entrepreneurship as a value-creating activity for economies and firms; types of innovation (technological, process, products, business models); fundamentals of product development (design thinking, rapid prototyping, ethnography); startup creation and articulating a value proposition; the role and traits of the entrepreneur; maximizing odds of success and minimizing odds of failure; growing the startup and creating a market; finding or creating the right niche; pivoting and judo strategy; lean startup approach; innovation in established firms and resistance to change; organizational inertia; business model change; and technological discontinuities.
ENTR 6318 | 2 Hours
Career Management
Required for the Co-op MBA program. Begins with an introduction to the career planning process and to the services of the MBA Career Center. Topics include résumé writing, videotaped practice interviewing, job search strategies, interview preparation, salary negotiation, marketing communication, and visa issues for international students seeking employment in the United States. May include additional topics depending on student interest. Requires admission to co-op MBA program. May be repeated once.
BUSN 6200 | 0 Hours
Continues the full-time MBA orientation program. Offers students an opportunity to develop the management skills necessary to become effective managers, including communication skills, qualitative and quantitative business analysis, and ethics and values.
BUSN 6950 | 0 Hours
Concentrations: You can choose one
The finance portion of your combined-degree curriculum fulfills the course requirements for one concentration and you may select your second concentration from the list below.
Quantitative Finance Track Concentrations
Corporate Finance Concentration
Master a range of financial, analytical, and communication skills for increasing profitability and shareholder value.
Investments Concentration
Become a knowledgeable manager of assets for individuals or institutions, building your expertise in capital allocation, valuation, and risk management.
Finance Track Concentrations
Analytics is the recommended concentration for finance majors.
Analytics Concentration
Learn how to succeed in data-driven management, no matter what your job function or industry.
Brand Management Concentration
Learn how to manage the integrity of a brand across all marketing activities and communication channels.
Business Management for Healthcare Concentration
Become an innovative leader and manager in the complex field of healthcare.
Corporate Innovation Concentration
Develop the knowledge, perspective, and leadership skills needed to be an agent of change and renewal within established organizations.
Entrepreneurship Concentration
Develop the knowledge, skills, and perspective necessary to conceptualize, launch, manage, and grow a new business.
International Business Concentration
Master a range of financial, analytical, and communication skills for increasing profitability and shareholder value.
Leading People & Organizations Concentration
Become a resilient and resourceful leader by learning to manage the human side of business.
Marketing Concentration
Learn how to build relationships with your customers and create a brand or product that engages them.
Marketing Analytics Concentration
Learn analytics skills taught from a marketing perspective—and create agile strategies that put your customers first.
Operations and Supply Chain Management Concentration
Learn to expertly manage the flow of goods and services in order to grow your company's bottom line.
Sustainability and Business Concentration
Learn to create sound business strategies that make a positive impact on the world.
MBA x Artificial Intelligence Concentration
Learn to leverage artificial intelligence to help organizations improve outcomes and productivity.
MBA x Bioinformatics Concentration
Forge a path for yourself as an innovative business leader in the complex and rapidly evolving biotechnology industry where the work has the potential to be lifesaving.
MBA x Biotechnology Industry Concentration
Forge a path for yourself as an innovative business leader in the complex and rapidly evolving biotechnology industry where the work has the potential to be lifesaving.
MBA x Cybersecurity Concentration
Develop your knowledge of cybersecurity to lead in our tech-driven economy.
MBA x Data Science Concentration
As big data and business operations merge, it's more important than ever for business leaders to speak the language of data science.
MBA x Data Visualization Concentration
The ability to analyze and present information so that it can be clearly understood by your audience is a critical leadership skill. You'll gain a firm grasp on best practices for information visualization and delivery systems-based on a deep understanding of the principles of human cognition.
MBA x Experience Design Concentration
Learn to lead with a knowledge base in experience design. This concentration will give you the chance to learn the tools, technologies, and processes for developing prototypes; and develop an understanding of human motivations and expectations.
MBA x Game Design and Analytics Concentration
Gain an understanding of the framework for analyzing and designing games based on a wide range of disciplines. You'll synthesize tools and theories from psychology, sociology, anthropology, media studies, data analytics, biometrics, and other relevant fields to help you learn to design digital gaming environments that satisfy the user.
MBA x Media Innovation and Advocacy Concentration
Deliver a message that moves your audience—no small feat in today's fast-changing digital world. You'll develop strategies for communicating a powerful message across a range of platforms via sound storytelling and design.
MBA x Software Development Concentration
Build your expertise to drive decisions about software development and acquisition.
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Part-Time MS in Finance/MBA
Develop a powerful blend of financial and business expertise by combining two advanced degrees—on a part-time schedule that works with your life. Choose from 15 in-demand concentrations.
Online MS in Finance/MBA
Develop a powerful blend of financial and business expertise by combining two advanced degrees—in an all-virtual format. Choose from eight in-demand concentrations.
Full-Time MBA
Build the tech-focused business expertise employers want—and power your learning with unique experiences, such as our high-impact corporate residency. Choose from 24 in-demand concentrations, including our signature non-business MBA x concentrations.
MS in Finance
Prepare to thrive in a finance industry being transformed by technology and innovation. The full-time quantitative finance coursework is STEM designated; our part-time and online options focus on financial theory and practice.