MBA in Finance and Risk Management
Accounting & Finance
Graduate
College of Business Management
MBA’s Specialization in Finance and Risk Management is designed to cover all dimensions of Risk Management and Finance including recent development in Corporate Risk Management, Sustainable Risk and Risk Financing techniques. Students will learn how to choose alternative techniques to reduce exposure and risks and implement a risk-assessment tool to evaluate future risks. They will also learn implementation and monitoring of selected techniques.
Students selecting the domain based specialization in Finance and Risk Management are expected to have completed the 30 credit hours of foundation stage of the MBA program. Specialization stage consists of 42 credit hours of course work covering strategic and operational areas. These include courses in the area of Marketing Strategy, Strategic Finance, Strategic Management, Leadership, Technology/ Operations, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Processes, Analytics of Decision Making, etc. During the specialization stage, students take 12 credit hours of strategy courses, 9 credit hours of operational level courses, and 12 credit hours of elective courses. These courses are specifically designed to understand the financial risk management. In addition to strategic, operational and elective courses students select two real life Capstone Projects (6 credit hours) in their area of specialization during their final year.
MBA track for specialization in Finance and Risk Management as well as the foundation stage is only available during the weekends. Candidates must select the specialization at the time of filing the application.
| Accounting | Communication | Economics | Finance | Finance and Risk Management | Human Resource Management |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACC401 Introduction to Managerial and Cost Accounting ACC419 Financial Accounting |
COM402 Business Communication |
ECO401 Micro and Macroeconomics ECO408 Applied Financial Economics |
FIN408 Theory and Practice of Financial Management FIN501 Advanced Financial Management FIN511 Analysis of Financial Statements |
FRM401 Principles of Risk Management FRM402 Computational Methods in Risk FRM403 Introduction to Financial Risk Management FRM404 Risk Financing Techniques FRM405 Advanced Financial Risk Management |
HRM410 Managing Human Capital |
| Law | Management | Marketing | Mathematics | Social Sciences | Statistics |
| LAW403 Business and Insurance Law |
MAN418 Management and Organizational Dynamics MAN405 Strategic Management |
MKT401 Principles of Marketing |
MTH409 Financial Mathematics I MTH410 Financial Mathematics II |
SSC405 Business Ethics and Financial Responsibility |
STA402 Model and Inferences |
2 Elective
| Finance and Banking | Finance and Risk Management |
|---|---|
| FIN403 Islamic Banking and Finance |
FRM503 Corporate Risk Management FRM504 Theory of Risk and Insurance FRM505 Corporate Treasury and Risk Management FRM506 Financial Regulation for Risk Management FRM508 Financial Market Issues and Crisis FRM510 Energy Risk Management FRM512 International Risk and Financial Reporting FRM513 Project Risk Management FRM514 Takaful and Risk Management in Islamic Products FRM516 International Financial Reporting and Standards FRM517 Property Risk Management FRM518 Management of Insurance Institutions |
| SEMESTER ONE | SEMESTER TWO | SEMESTER THREE |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Financial Accounting Business Communication Management and Organizational Dynamics Model and Inferences |
Micro and Macroeconomics Financial Management Principles of Marketing Financial Mathematics I |
Intro. to Managerial & Cost Accounting Principles of Risk Management Computational Methods in Risk Financial Mathematics II |
| SEMESTER FOUR | SEMESTER FIVE | SEMESTER SIX |
| Advanced Financial Management Intro. to Financial Risk Management Business and Insurance Law Managing Human Capital |
Applied Financial Economics Analysis of Financial Statements Business Ethics & Fin. Responsibility Elective I |
Risk Financing Techniques Advanced Financial Risk Management Strategic Management Elective II |
