Today’s financial landscape is increasingly complex, and organizations need leaders who can connect business strategy, financial expertise, and AI-driven insights. The MBA/MS in Finance combines business strategy, analytic rigor, advanced financial expertise, and emerging AI capabilities to make smarter decisions, navigate complex financial challenges, and lead across industries.
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Full-time MBA Integrated Dual Degrees
Connect business strategy with financial expertise
Details
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Fall Term -
Full-time -
In-Person -
Baltimore, MD -
2-3 years -
60 Credits
Benefits & Highlights
- Earn and MBA and an MS in Finance degree in only two years
- Prepare for careers across investment, consulting, corporate finance, and more
- Build advanced financial expertise alongside MBA-level leadership skills
- The Johns Hopkins MBA program is 54 credits, 18 of which may be applied from the MS in Finance program
Who Should Apply
Current Full-time MBA students who want to pair broad business leadership skills with deeper financial expertise. Apply if you want to strengthen your strategic perspective, sharpen your financial decision-making, and use AI and analytics to create greater impact in finance and beyond.
Admissions
The admissions teams at Carey are here to help you with the application process, curriculum options, pacing, and how this dual degree can increase your influence and career outcomes.
Students have access to various financial aid opportunities including some that can cover up to the full cost of tuition and living expenses, so you can focus on achieving your goals without financial stress. Many of these scholarships can also be applied to the additional cost of the MS in Finance degree.
MBA Scholarship Opportunities:
- The Dean’s Scholarship
- Carey Business Fellowship
- Reaching Out MBA Fellowship
- Forté Fellowships
- Baltimore Scholars Fellowship
- Various endowed scholarships
To apply for the MBA/MS in Finance program, you must be a current Johns Hopkins Full-time MBA student. At the end of the first year of your MBA program, you can submit a streamlined internal application after meeting with your academic advisor to indicate interest and confirming you are in good standing.
Curriculum
Develop the financial expertise and strategic perspective to evaluate complex business decisions, identify opportunities, and create value. Build the analytical and leadership skills to navigate evolving financial markets and lead with confidence across industries.
Core Curriculum
REQUIRED COURSES
Build a strong foundation in business leadership and financial expertise and develop strategic, analytical and technical skills to lead in today's evolving business and financial landscape. Customize your MS in Finance with an optional area of concentration to further develop expertise aligned with your career goals.
MBA Required Courses
- Accounting Foundations
- Behavioral Science: Leadership and Organizational Behavior
- Behavioral Science: Negotiating Collaboratively
- Business Communication
- Competitive Strategy
- Data Science: Big Data Consulting Project
- Data Science: Statistics
- Finance
- Innovation Field Project
- Marketing Management
- Microeconomics and Market Design
- Operations Management
- Professional Development for Career Success (0 credits)
- 5 MBA electives
MS in Finance Required Courses:
- Derivatives
- Empirical Finance
- Fixed income
- Investments
- 8 MS in Finance Electives
MS in Finance’s Financial Econometrics Area of Concentration:
- Computational Finance
- Derivatives
- Empirical Finance
- Financial Modeling Valuation
- Fixed Income
- Investments
- Linear Econometrics for Finance
- Non-Linear Econometrics for Finance
- 4 MS in Finance Electives
Shape your degree around your goals
ELECTIVES
Customize your MBA/MS in Finance experience with electives that complement your business and finance coursework. Choose courses that align with your career goals while building expertise in areas such as AI, analytics, leadership, and strategy.
Beyond the classroom
Innovation Field Project
Solve real business challenges
Work with real organizations to tackle complex business challenges and develop solutions that create measurable impact. Through this hands-on consulting experience, apply the strategic, analytical, and innovative thinking you build across the MBA/MS in Finance curriculum.
Student Managed Investment Fund
Put financial strategy into practice
Gain hands-on experience managing a real investment portfolio of more than $500,000. As part of a student-led investment team, conduct financial research, evaluate opportunities, debate investment strategies, make recommendations, and execute trades, putting the analytical and decision-making skills you develop in the MBA/MS in Finance to work.
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