金融学（Finance）专业是从经济学分化出来的，研究公司、个人、政府与其他机构如何募集和投资资金的学科。传统的金融学研究领域大致有两个方向：宏观层面的金融市场运行理论和微观层面的公司投资理论。 其主要研究分支包括：
- 货币银行学(Money, Banking and Economics)
- 国际金融学(International Finance)
- 公共财政学(Public Finance)
- 投资学(Investment)
- 公司金融学(Corporate Finance)
- 金融工程 (Financial Engineering)
- 金融市场学（Financial Market）
- 金融经济学(Financial Economics)
- 数理金融学(Mathematical Finance)
| 开设学位 | MBA、MSF、Ph.D. |
| 典型职业与薪水 |
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| 签证敏感度 | 无 |
| 高中课程准备 | 理科 |
| 所属专业领域 | 商科 |
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课程列表
| 微积分 | Calculus |
| 财务会计 | Financial Accounting |
| 成本会计 | Cost Accounting |
| 国际贸易 | International Business |
| 商业道德 | Business Ethics |
| 中级会计 | Intermediate Accounting |
| 人力资源管理 | Human Resources Management |
| 市场营销 | Marketing |
| 宏观经济学 | Macroeconomics |
| 微观经济学 | Microeconomics |
| 企业融资 | Corporate Finance |
| 投资管理 | Investment Management |
| 货币与资金市场 | Money and Capital Markets |
就业状况
从事职业：会计、精算师、律师、银行工作者、酒吧经理、金融分析师、外汇交易商、保险代理、市场调查员、餐馆老板、股票经纪人金融分析师美国各州就业情况：
| 州名 | 就业人数 | 薪水/h | 薪水/年 |
| 纽约 | 33240 | $55.94 | $116,350 |
| 加州 | 29880 | $48.76 | $101,410 |
| 德克萨斯州 | 18610 | $41.17 | $85,640 |
| 麻省 | 14710 | $43.81 | $91,120 |
| 宾夕法尼亚州 | 11080 | $35.65 | $74,150 |
| 哥伦比亚特区 | 4660 | $50.36 | $104,750 |
| 特拉华州 | 2310 | $38.35 | $79,770 |
| 康涅狄格州 | 6070 | $51.52 | $107,170 |
| 俄勒冈州 | 2040 | $52.16 | $108,490 |
2015USNews美国大学研究生金融专业排名
| 排名 | 院校 | 学费 | 工程专业研究生注册总人数 |
| #1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA |
$59,736 per year (full-time) | 1,677 |
| #2 | University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL |
$58,760 per year (full-time) | 1,176 |
| #3 | New York University (Stern) New York, NY |
$57,468 per year (full-time) | 786 |
| #4 | Columbia University New York, NY |
$60,720 per year (full-time) | 1,279 |
| #5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA |
$61,152 per year (full-time) | 819 |
| #6 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$59,550 per year (full-time) | 809 |
| #7 | Harvard University Boston, MA |
$56,175 per year (full-time) | 1,851 |
| #8 | University of California-Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA |
$51,412 per year (in-state, full-time); $53,959 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 497 |
| #9 | Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL |
$59,085 per year (full-time) | 1,148 |
| #10 | University of California-Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA |
$48,722 per year (in-state, full-time); $55,009 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 724 |
| #11 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI |
$52,200 per year (in-state, full-time); $57,200 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 941 |
| #12 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tep per) Pittsburgh, PA |
$56,768 per year (full-time) | 423 |
| #13 | Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC |
$55,300 per year (full-time) | 861 |
| #14 | University of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY |
$49,929 per year (full-time) | 249 |
| #15 | Boston College (Carroll) Chestnut Hill, MA |
$42,000 per year (full-time) | 200 |
| #15 | Loyola University Maryland (Sellinger) Baltimore, MD |
$63,000 per program (full-time) | 16 |
| #15 | University of Texas-Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX |
$33,298 per year (in-state, full-time); $48,832 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 511 |
| #18 | St. Joseph's University (Haub) Philadelphia, PA |
$918 per credit (full-time) | N/A |
| #18 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC |
$31,510 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,942 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 573 |
| #20 | Yale University New Haven, CT |
$57,200 per year (full-time) | 552 |
| #21 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO |
$49,700 per year (full-time) | 282 |
| #22 | Creighton University Omaha, NE |
N/A | N/A |
| #22 | Fordham University New York, NY |
$1,259 per credit (full-time) | 404 |
| #22 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL |
$19,976 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,976 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 195 |
| #25 | Fairfield University (Dolan) Fairfield, CT |
$795 per credit (full-time) | N/A |
| #25 | Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH |
$28,688 per year (in-state, full-time); $46,352 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 212 |