MASTER OF FINANCE - Master - Peking University HSBC Business School(PHBS)

MASTER OF FINANCE

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Master of Finance Program at HSBC Business School

The Finance program provides specialist training in finance for international students. The master's degree in the finance program focuses on a core curriculum in financial theory and applications. This is a two-year, full-time program in which international students learn alongside Chinese peers in an environment of cross-cultural dialogue. All courses are instructed exclusively in English, as is all academic support provided by faculty, TAs, and staff members. The faculty members of this program have earned their PhD degrees from top-ranked universities over the world.

*The Masters of Finance program curriculum is very quantitative based and therefore requires students to have a very high level of mathematical skills. It is recommended that students who apply for this program have an undergraduate degree in a related or quantitative field such as economics, finance, mathematics, engineering, etc.

Curriculum Overview

Please note that this is the curriculum for 2018, curriculum for 2019 is soon to be confirmed.

Finance	Module 1	Module 2	Module 3	Module 4
Year 1	Microeconomics	Macroeconomics	Corporate Finance	Research Methodology & Business Ethics
	Financial Accounting	Advanced Econometrics	Investments	Elective 1
	Business Math	Intro.to Chinese Economy	English Writing	Elective 2
	Chinese Language(Level 1)		Chinese Language(Level 2)
Year 2	Business Chinese 1	Business Chinese 2	Thesis (Graduate Thesis Seminar and Defense)
	Elective 3	Financial Markets
	Elective 4	Independent Study of China

I.Degree Requirements
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To obtain a Master of Finance degree from Peking University HSBC Business School, students are required to fulfill 54 credits (including 14 required courses, 3 major elective courses and 1 general elective courses), complete 1 required course that do not count credits (Graduate Thesis Seminar) and complete a Master’s thesis.

Students will earn the credits only if they pass course examinations. For required courses and elective courses, students need to pass by earning a score of 70 (D) or above. Those who fail a required course will retake the course. Students who fail the same required course two times or fail any 3 courses within one semester will be removed from the program and not receive their master's degree.

This is two year postgraduate program. Those who have difficulty completing the required coursework can apply to extend their studies by half a year to one year at the beginning of the second academic year. The tuition cost of the extended period will be significantly lower than traditional tuition fees, but will be covered entirely by the student himself/herself.
II. Research Fields
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Concentrations: Financial Engineering, Corporate Finance, Investment, Risk Management, Chinese Financial Markets
Advisors: Chang Yong Ha,Daniel Sungyeon Kim ,Di Li,Domenico Tarzia,Duckki Cho,Hursit Selcuk Celil,Jaehyuk Choi , Jake Zhao,Lan Ju ,Lei Sun,Liangyi Ouyang ,Linlin Ma ,Nan Liu ,Naqiong Tong,Seungjoon Oh,Srinivasan Selvam,Sungbin Sohn ,Timothy Lu ,Wei Cen ,Wei Xu , Xianhua Peng, Limei Che, Yanling Guan,and Yilin Zhang

III. Curriculum

* Please refer to class schedule for elective courses' availability.

Course	Credits
Financial Markets	3
Financial Accounting	3
Applied Econometrics	3
Microeconomics	3
Macroeconomics	3
Introduction to Chinese Economy	3
Business Chinese	6
Independent Study of China	3
Writing in English	3
Business Mathematics	3
Business Ethics and Research Methodology (Business Ethics:1.5 credits, Research Methodology: 1.5 credits)	3

Course	Credits
Graduate Thesis Seminar	N/A

Course	Credits
Numerical Methods and Analysis	3
Topics in Quantitative Finance	3
Hedge Funds	3
Empirical Asset Pricing	3
Financial Econometrics	3
Financial Econometrics II
Financial Engineering	3
Financial Risk Management	3
Advanced Econometrics	3
Advanced Financial Economics	3
Market Microstructure	3
Fixed Income Securities	3
Money and Banking	3
Real Estate Finance and Economics	3
Entrepreneurial Finances	3
Investment II	3
International Finance	3
Advanced Econometrics II	3
Principles of Risk Management and Insurance	3
Industrial Organization	3
Public Finance	3
Game Theory	3
Managing Mergers & Acquisitions	3
Mergers and Acquisitions	3
Financial Markets and Investments in China	3
Asset Valuation Theory	3
Advanced Macroeconomics Ⅱ	3
Corporate Finance	3
Economics of Public Issues	3
Bayesian Statistics	3
Finance in Practice	3
Business Case Analysis	3
Financial Modeling I	3
Financial Modeling II	3
Financial Modeling in VBA	3
Enterprisers and Enterprises	3
Financial Statement Analysis	3
Credit Risk Modeling for Debt Investment	3
Trading and Arbitrage Strategies	3
Empirical Industrial Organization	3
Communication for Business	3
Applied Stochastic Processes	3
Information Securing	3
Household Finance	3
Software Engineering	3
Stochastic Finance	3
Wealth Management	3
Corporate Governance	3

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