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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.

Program Overview

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

Total Tuition

$19,500

Duration

As few as 12 months

Credit Hours

30

Tuition Breakdown

Program	Per Credit Hour	Per Course	Per Program
MBA in Finance	$625	$1,950	$19,500

Calendar

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
Summer 1	5/17/25	5/2/25	5/7/25	5/12/25	5/21/25	6/27/25	6 weeks
Summer 2	6/28/25	6/13/25	6/18/25	6/23/25	7/2/25	8/8/25	6 weeks
Fall 1	8/23/25	8/8/25	8/13/25	8/18/25	8/27/25	10/17/25	7 weeks
Fall 2	10/18/25	10/3/25	10/8/25	10/13/25	10/22/25	12/12/25	7 weeks

Admissions

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

Courses

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.

Ethics Core Course

• MAN 510: Management Ethics
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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.

Required Core Courses

• BUS 777: Business Data Analytics
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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.

Specialization Courses

• ACC 508: International Accounting
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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
  • Credit Hours: 3
• FIN 741: Investment Analysis
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
• FIN 742: Financial Markets and Intermediaries
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
• FIN 746: Global Investment and Risk Management Strategies
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
• FIN 772: International Finance and Banking
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3

Foundation Courses

• ACC 530: Essentials of Accounting
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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
  • Credit Hours: 3
• BUS 724: Foundation for Business Studies
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Credit Hours: 3
  • 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.