Finance, PhD

Program Overview

The Finance PhD program at the University of Oregon emphasizes financial economics applied to financial management, institutions, and markets. Students specialize in corporate finance, asset management, or empirical asset pricing. The program aims to equip graduates with the skills to conduct original research in finance, preparing them for careers in academia or the financial industry.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Finance PhD program focuses on financial economics applied to financial management, financial institutions, and markets. The program includes coursework in microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, and finance seminars. Specializations are corporate finance, asset management and institutional investors, and empirical asset pricing. The doctoral program requires four to 5 years of work while in residence on the Eugene campus. The goal is to equip students to conduct original research on important problems that are of interest to both academics and practitioners in the field of finance.