Columbia Business School

Curriculum

Prerequisites:

Prior to commencing the program, all admitted students would be required to complete the following courses at an advanced undergraduate level:

Required Ph.D. Courses:

1. (Ph.D.) B8207 Microeconomic Analysis I (Fall first year)
2. (Ph.D.) B8208 Microeconomic Analysis II (Spring-first year)
3. (Ph.D.) B9311 Introduction to Econometrics (Fall first year)
4. (Ph.D.) B9311 Financial Econometrics (Spring first year)
5. (Ph.D.) B9302 Finance Theory I (Spring first year)
6. (Ph.D.) B9311 Asset Pricing Theory (Second year)
7. (Ph.D.) B9311 Empirical Asset Pricing (Second year)
8. (Ph.D.) B9311 Corporate Finance Theory (Second year)
9. (Masters) B9312 Thesis Seminar and MS Thesis (Spring, second year)

Elective(offerings may vary from year to year):

1. (Ph.D.) B9311 Continuous Time Finance
2. (Ph.D.) B9311 Empirical Asset Pricing II
3. (Ph.D.) B9399 Advanced International Corporate Finance
4. (Ph.D.) B9830 Computing for Business Research
5. (Ph.D.) B9311 Computational Methods for Bayesian inference
6. (Ph.D.) B9801 Computational Finance
7. (Ph.D.) Empirical Methods in Corporate Finance
8. (Ph.D.) B9310 Behavioral Finance
9. (Ph.D.) B9311 Seminar in International Finance

Required MBA level courses:

Elective MBA courses:

*Capital Markets and Accounting can be exempted out of via an exemption exam.

Typical first year course of study

First semester: