COLLEGE OF Commerce

The Department of Finance is dedicated to offering a conceptually grounded, quality education for a broad community of learners. Central to this mission is providing a foundation for lifelong learning and enhanced professional and intellectual growth for our community of students, faculty, business and alumni.

The part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has been ranked sixth in the nation by U.S.News & World Report in the magazine's 2009 graduate degree rankings, issued in March 2008. Our career-focused MBA program for working professionals has earned a top-10 rating more than a dozen times in the magazine's annual rankings. The MBA program was also rated among the top three in Chicago's highly competitive business school market, according to the first-ever ranking of local MBA programs by Crain's Chicago Business in October 2006.

The Department of Finance offers MBA concentrations in Banking, Behavioral Finance, Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Management and Control, Investment Management, Managerial Finance (Weekend MBA only), Real Estate Finance and Investment, and Strategy, Execution, and, Valuation. Additionally, we offer a Master of Science in Computational Finance, Master of Science in Finance as well as a Master of Science in Real Estate.