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Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Finance Online
Become a highly skilled professional manager and play a key role in ensuring the success of any organization. This career-boosting program prepares you for a wide range of in-demand leadership roles in any business organization, including financial services and related industries.
Apply by:
2/21/25
Program Overview
Explore the value of our online finance MBA
Earn your affordable Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Finance from St. Thomas University Online and meet the high demand for skilled finance professionals whose work is the lifeblood of any organization.
Gain an advanced understanding of stocks, debt, interest rates, and international accounting practices so you can help your organization make informed investment decisions. Analyze how commercial banks and other financial intermediaries operate, and examine principles and practices used in evaluating securities ranging from top-quality bonds to low-quality common stocks and warrants.
Take advantage of pay-by-the-course tuition and multiple start dates and begin studying online at your own pace. No GRE or GMAT is required to enroll.
Finance Career Opportunities
- Financial Analyst
- Portfolio Manager
- Financial Planner
- Financial Consultant
- Private Equity Associate
- Finance Director
- Finance C-Level Executive
- Financial Analyst
- Portfolio Manager
- Financial Planner
- Financial Consultant
- Private Equity Associate
- Finance Director
- Finance C-Level Executive
Total Tuition
$19,500
Duration
As few as 12 months
Credit Hours
30
Tuition
Invest in your future with our online MBA in Finance
Tuition for the MBA in Finance online degree program is the same for in-state and out-of-state students and can be paid by the course. The total tuition is inclusive of all fees, including a technology fee for each course.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| MBA in Finance | $625 | $1,950 | $19,500 |
Tuition breakdown:
Total Tuition
$19,500
Per Credit Hour
$625
Calendar
Take note of these important dates
The MBA in Finance program is delivered in an online format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring multiple start dates each year. Choose the start date that is best for you.
| Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2 | 3/15/25 | 2/21/25 | 2/28/25 | 3/7/25 | 3/19/25 | 5/9/25 | 7 weeks |
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Apply Date
2/21/25
Class Starts
3/15/25
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Admissions
How to apply to our online Master of Business Administration – Finance program
Our streamlined admission requirements allow students with diverse academic backgrounds greater access to the MBA in Finance online program.
Admission Requirements:
- Free application
- 2.5 GPA or higher
- No GRE or GMAT required
MBA in Finance Online Admission Requirements
The following are required for admission to the MBA in Finance online program:
- Completed free application
- Bachelor’s degree transcript (unofficial transcripts are accepted)
- 2.5 or greater GPA, no GMAT
- 2.33 – 2.49 GPA. Other documents may be requested for additional program director review. No GMAT required.
Official transcripts can be sent to St. Thomas University through Parchment and National Student Clearinghouse. Unofficial transcripts and other documents can be uploaded via your Admissions Portal or emailed to [email protected].
Courses
Get to know the online finance MBA curriculum
The MBA in Finance online curriculum is comprised of 10 courses, including 18 credit hours of core courses, 12 credit hours of specialization courses, and up to nine credit hours of foundation courses based on a review of transcripts.
Courses in this program are seven weeks long. Courses during the two summer terms, however, are six weeks long.
Students will be placed in one of the following courses based on course availability.
MAN 510: Management Ethics
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The study of ethics and ethical behavior in public and private organizations is the fundamental purpose of this core course, which also explores broad areas of social responsibility to others in the enterprise, customers, the community and the preservation of the environment.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify, analyze, and apply traditional ethical theories.
- Evaluate the effect of culture on ethical issues and identify, discuss, and assess current ethical issues in local, regional, national, and international arenas.
- Articulate and assess conflicts between business practices and social justice.
- Develop a personal code of ethics by synthesizing theory and practical application and apply ethical principles in one's professional life.
MAN 700: Organizational Behavior
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides a micro-perspective on organizations within the context of motivation, leadership, communication, interpersonal relations and group dynamics. Students will be encouraged to apply theoretical material to case studies and their own organizations.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine experiences and identify organization behavior concepts in everyday life.
- Evaluate the impact of organizational behavior concepts on cases by defending and justifying your position.
- Apply knowledge of organization behavior concepts to solve organizational problems ethically.
- Work effectively with others in team environments.
- Articulate the impact of diverse and multicultural work environments.
- Apply and evaluate the effectiveness of leadership in various organizational situations.
- Write professional communications.
Students will take the following courses.
BUS 777: Business Data Analytics
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an introductory framework to understand the structure and dynamics of Data Analytics for Business in relation to Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive, and Prescriptive Analytics through the use of data, quantitative mathematical and statistical models, and information technology software and applications. Graduate students will apply Data Analytics for Business tools to help decision makers gain improved insights about their business operations; and therefore to support them to make better, rational, fact-based, and data-driven business decisions.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine the diverse applications and influence of data analytics on business practices, encompassing data creation, sharing, analytics, mining, reporting, and storage within and across organizations, including related ethical issues.
- Apply Data Analytics for Business concepts to real-life business scenarios using common-place information technology.
- Analyze and frame Data Analytics for Business problems and develop both proactive and reactive solutions.
- Use critical thinking skills to develop effective case analysis recommendations and course of actions.
ACC 770: Managerial Accounting
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Acquisition of capital and debt, long-range and annual budgeting, budget management, cash flow management, short-term debt financing, interfacing with operation functions. (Pre-requisite: ACC 530 or have come in with 6 hours of undergraduate accounting courses)
Learning Outcomes
- Perform essential managerial functions such as planning, control, and decision-making.
- Prepare cost analyses, cash flow statements, budgets, and cost comparisons.
- Make managerial decisions by analyzing financial statements.
BUS 672: Global Marketing Concepts & Strategies
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Concepts, theories, and applications of marketing in an international environment, including the analysis of marketing opportunities, structuring of marketing programs, marketing efforts, and legal aspects of multinational marketing
Learning Outcomes
- Identify variables in the global environment that require further analysis before creating a global marketing strategy.
- Develop a comprehensive marketing plan, determine its components, and explain which options are appropriate under the current environmental conditions to marketing personnel.
- Analyze the diverse cultures domestically and abroad.
FIN 751: Financial Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Acquisition of capital and debt, long-range and annual budgeting, budget management, cash flow management, short-term debt financing, interfacing with operation functions. Pre-requisites: ACC 530, BUS 532, and BUS 724, or have come in with 6 hours of undergraduate accounting courses, 6 hours of undergraduate economics courses, and 6 hours of undergraduate statistics courses)
Learning Outcomes
- Design an outline for ethical leadership by the financial manager based on different scenarios throughout the course.
- Utilize financial statements to create financial profiles for a firm's managers, investors, and stakeholders.
- Solve time value of money problems and apply the concepts to corporate finance decisions.
- Evaluate various financing sources available to financing managers and estimate a corporation's cost of capital.
- Select potential corporate investment projects by applying various capital budgeting criteria.
- Use a financial model for estimating cash flows and analyzing capital budget projects.
- Perform a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a potential project based on a real-world case study, including sensitivity analysis.
BUS 704: Policy, Planning, and Strategy Systems
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Concepts, theories, and practices in public, private, and non-profit organizations of policy-making, strategy, planning, budgeting, and various implementing systems. The case study method integrated with a contingency approach to management. This course should be taken after most of the MBA core courses have been completed.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop analytical and practical skills to understand Strategic Management's role in business, address realistic corporate challenges, and contribute to business organizations.
- Describe the Strategic Management implications of business trends like globalization, corporate mergers, technological advances, innovation, social media, workforce diversity, entrepreneurship, ecological sustainability, changing employment practices, corporate citizenship, and social responsibility.
- Examine and frame Strategic Management problems and create both proactive and reactive solutions.
- Create effective Strategic Management case analysis recommendations and courses of action.
Students will be placed in four of the following courses based on course availability.
ACC 508: International Accounting
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An overview of international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and comparison with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The evolution of international accounting principles and practices, International Financial Reporting Standards, and reference to accounting and reporting requirements in selected countries are discussed. Current developments and implications for multinational organizations are also addressed. Pre-requisite: ACC 500 or ACC 530.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the impact of globalization on financial reporting standards.
- Identify, analyze, and apply International Financial Reporting Standards.
- Analyze the importance of international trade, foreign direct investment, and multinational corporations in the global economy.
- Translate foreign currency financial statements to U.S. financial statements.
- Discuss reasons to analyze financial statements of foreign companies.
- Compare auditing and corporate governance among several countries.
BUS 536: Entrepreneurship
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The formation of a new enterprise and management of a small, growing business. Characteristics of the successful entrepreneur; methods of identifying new opportunities; legal and tax aspects of starting a new enterprise; pros and cons of various forms of organizations.
FIN 741: Investment Analysis
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Study of principles and practices used in analyzing securities ranging from top-quality bonds to low-quality common stocks and warrants. Course coverage includes investment risks, portfolio management, and policies of institutional investors. Application of analytical techniques to securities, effective income/risk selection of securities and portfolios in theory and practice.
FIN 742: Financial Markets and Intermediaries
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides an examination of commercial banks and other financial intermediaries. The economic functions of credit and credit institutions; the structure and determinants of interest rates; and the various monetary theories are considered as well as the volume of money and credit, capital formation, prices, interest rates, balance of payments, and exchange rates.
FIN 746: Global Investment and Risk Management Strategies
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Topics include: major global financial markets; major types of risks associated with global operations and investments; international portfolio construction; hedging, arbitrage, and speculative strategies and the potential risk-return benefits from these strategies; valuation of other contingent claims and trading devices. Also covered are: participants in international markets; the organization and operations of dealers; and innovations in derivatives markets.
FIN 772: International Finance and Banking
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An overview of the international financial system from the viewpoint of the corporate executive. Balance of payments, foreign exchange, financing and banking operations and institutions, capital budgeting and foreign investments, Euro-currency, international bond and capital markets.
The following courses may be required based on a review of transcripts.
ACC 530: Essentials of Accounting
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An intensive study of accounting principles and practices for those with no previous background in accounting. The collection, reporting and interpretation of the financial data of a modern business firm is emphasized.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and predict the impact of business decisions on a company's financial statements.
- Examine and determine the financial condition and performance of a business.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills in business situations.
- Understand accounting terminology and essential concepts in financial and managerial accounting.
BUS 532: Statistical Analysis for Management
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
An overview of basic probability and statistical techniques, to provide a foundation in the use of statistical methodologies, and the interpretation of the findings in analyzing business data.
BUS 724: Foundation for Business Studies
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
The purpose of this course is to provide the foundation for understanding accounting, economics, statistics and case study analysis. The development of the aforementioned basic skills occurs within a business organization context and recognizes previously completed courses as well as experiential learning.
Learning Outcomes
- Address "real life" corporate challenges and influence business performance using a mix of analytical and practical skills.
- Understand and explain the implications of contemporary business trends such as globalization, corporate mergers, technological advances, innovation, social media, workforce diversity, entrepreneurship, ecological sustainability, changing employment practices, corporate citizenship, and social responsibility.
- Analyze and frame strategic management problems and develop both proactive and reactive solutions to them.
- Use critical thinking skills to create effective strategic management case analysis recommendations and courses of action.
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