Master of Business Administration with Applied Finance Certificate Online

Learn how to understand and apply complex financial theories and practices, while strengthening your critical-thinking, strategic decision-making and leadership skills and core business knowledge.

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Program Overview

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Total Tuition $15,270*
Duration As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 30

Combining a broad business perspective and an in-depth focus on finance, an online Master of Business Administration with Applied Finance Certificate from the University of Illinois Springfield gives you critical knowledge and advanced pragmatic skills in courses taught by the same professors who teach on campus.

This MBA Applied Finance will teach you the theories and practical applications of financial planning, budgeting, valuation and risk management, within the context of core business functions. Explore investment networks, regulatory issues, ethics, investor safeguards and financing of startups through IPO. Master the use of specialized business, finance and stock-trading approaches and applications such as Six Sigma, SPSS, KAIZEN, Capital IQ.

Graduates of the online MBA Applied Finance will:

  • Gain strategic insights and advanced career-ready skill sets relevant to applied finance, while strengthening core business knowledge, critical-thinking, data-based decision making and leadership competencies
  • Understand the purpose and practical use of specialized stock trading applications (Capital IQ) and participate in a stock-trading simulation project
  • Complete a group capstone project that demonstrates mastery of applied finance theories and practices
Graduates of the online MBA Applied Finance will:+
  • Gain strategic insights and advanced career-ready skill sets relevant to applied finance, while strengthening core business knowledge, critical-thinking, data-based decision making and leadership competencies
  • Understand the purpose and practical use of specialized stock trading applications (Capital IQ) and participate in a stock-trading simulation project
  • Complete a group capstone project that demonstrates mastery of applied finance theories and practices

Career opportunities:

  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Credit Manager or Specialist
  • Finance Manager
  • Investment Banker
  • Management Consultant
  • Portfolio Compliance Specialist
  • Senior Financial Analyst
  • VP of Corporate Finance
Career opportunities:+
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Credit Manager or Specialist
  • Finance Manager
  • Investment Banker
  • Management Consultant
  • Portfolio Compliance Specialist
  • Senior Financial Analyst
  • VP of Corporate Finance

Accreditation

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The College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois Springfield is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB). Fewer than 6% of business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of the highest standard in management education.

Note: Students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or to use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

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UIS offers a variety of specialized MBA programs. Check out all of our online MBA concentrations.

Total Tuition $15,270*
Duration As few as 12 months
Credit Hours 30

Accreditation

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business Accredited Logo

The College of Business and Management at the University of Illinois Springfield is accredited by AACSB International (AACSB). Fewer than 6% of business schools worldwide have earned this symbol of the highest standard in management education.

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Tuition

Invest in your future for less with our affordable tuition

Earn a world-class education for less than you’d expect. Our pay-by-the-course tuition fits easily into your budget.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
MBA Applied Finance $509 $1,527 $15,270*

 

Important payment information for your UIS online program:

If you are enrolling in our online Graduate Accelerated Programs (GAP) through the College of Business and Management, be aware that their tuition deadlines are different from general University tuition deadlines. For GAP, tuition is due to be paid in full the day before classes begin each term. If payment is not received before the first day of classes, you will be administratively withdrawn from the program.

Because the online program that you have applied and been admitted to is based on an 8-week period, while the University customarily addresses programs offered in a 16-week period, you may receive conflicting information from the University of Illinois System Bursar Office. The payment and due dates sent by the bursar office do not apply to your 8-week online courses. If you have questions, please contact your program advisor.

*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $15,270*
Per Credit Hour $509
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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program
MBA Applied Finance $509 $1,527 $15,270
*Total cost is estimated at $1,527 per course based on a semester fee schedule. Please note that students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GPSI/GA programs or use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Full estimated cost of attendance is listed here: https://www.uis.edu/financial-aid/cost-attendance

Tuition breakdown:

Total Tuition $15,270*
Per Credit Hour $509

Calendar

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Designed for working professionals, UIS Online programs feature multiple start dates per year, so you can begin at the time that best fits your schedule and complete your degree quickly.

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Spring 2025-1st Half1/13/2512/16/241/2/251/8/251/12/253/15/258 weeks

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Admissions

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Admission Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university
  • No GMAT required
  • All official transcripts
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Applicants to the UIS Online MBA Applied Finance must meet at least one of the following combinations for admission.

  • Master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university
  • Bachelor's degree in business from a regionally accredited college or university with a 2.5 GPA or higher
  • Bachelor's degree with a non-business major from a regionally accredited college or university with a 2.5 GPA or higher and completion of gateway prerequisite courses BUS 501 Business Perspectives and ACC 505 Fundamentals of Business Decisions Making

Note: Students in the online MBA are not eligible to participate in the GA programs or to use University of Illinois Employee/Child of Employee Tuition Waivers.

Courses

Here’s an overview of what you’ll learn in your business courses for the online Applied Finance MBA

For the online MBA Applied Finance program, you must complete 10 courses totaling 30 credit hours, including 21 credit hours of core courses, six credit hours of concentration courses and three credit hours of electives. The use of a Windows-based PC is preferred for this program.

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The courses listed here will generally apply. Furthermore, students are individually advised.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 4
Discusses relevant elements of statistics, microeconomics, and accounting as they apply to administrative justification of decisions. Topics include data description, probability, sampling, supply and demand, and fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting such as financial statements and profitability analysis.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is the gateway course to the MBA curriculum that introduces the core concepts in functional areas of management, marketing, finance and operations with an emphasis on application to business situations. Concepts are integrated through case analyses to pursue in-depth study of functional area topics throughout the graduate business curriculum. Other topics include ethical issues and the roles of globalization, diversity, technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation in business. *Only needed if you have a non-business UG degree.
Required core courses.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Study of planning and internal management decision making and the use of accounting systems for control.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the conceptual foundations and practices of contemporary marketing as well as the planning, implementation, and control of the marketing function. Topics include situation analysis; marketing objectives; target market selection; and product, promotion, pricing, and physical distribution decisions.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Operations management concerns the production and delivery of goods and services. This course focuses on those business processes, procedures and strategies used to transform various inputs into finished goods and services. Focus is on both understanding how the provision of goods is organized and managed and recognizing potential areas of improvement in the management or production of goods and services. Also of major study will be how operations management interfaces with other functional areas and the various issues and problems that traditionally arise in the field of operations management, including those related to technology, globalization, and ethics. Students who have not completed Managerial and Finance Accounting, Microeconomics and/0r Macroeconomics will be placed in ACC 505.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Examination of impacts of individuals, groups, and structural attributes on behavior within organizations.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course emphasizes the formulation of organizational missions and the implementation of policies and strategies to assure their achievement. This course focuses on the oversight of entire operations in light of stakeholder expectations and legal and ethical considerations. Capstone Course
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course will cultivate familiarity with a broad range of managerial as well as technical issues, technologies, and terminologies such as information systems high-level architecture and life cycle, information flow within organization, managerial decision making tools, data quality control and assurance, ethical and legal aspects of IS, and successful implementation of IS projects.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Concepts and variables include those used in financial analysis, planning, and control. Topics include financial forecasting, capital budgeting, leverage, valuation, cost of capital market and related legal/ethical issues.
Must take one of these five courses:
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course evaluates US and international financial markets and institutions. Students will learn to conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis of financial market structures, and management decision-making in the financial industry. There is a focus on estimating the valuation of FIs in market environment, applying value-based management into FI operations, and controlling risk that might jeopardize market values of financial assets. Prerequisite: FIN 502
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students will develop skills for making comprehensive financial plans in accordance with individual and household financial objectives that include return expectations, risk tolerance, and liquidity needs. Learn to design, implement and monitor decisions in personal financial plans.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students will develop the skills to process data, model and analyze financial topics. Covered topics include financial statement analysis, valuation, forecasting, and budgeting preparation based on analytics results. Course uses applied software programs such as Excel to produce 3-statement integration, sensitivity and scenario analysis, Monte Carlo simulation and other financial spreadsheet models.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students will evaluate psychological effects on financial decision making. This course introduces principles and develops skillsets that are needed for financial planning, financial coaching, and financial therapy.
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Students will develop skills in technical analysis (TA) of market trends, trader psychology, and investment planning. This course reviews the TA methodology and investor crowd psychology. It evaluates the effects of human emotions, market mood and cognitive errors on asset trading behaviors.
Two required courses:
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Course offers a perspective on the timing, instruments, and choices available to financial investors. Shows the investment network that facilitates the efforts of individual investors, security analysts, portfolio managers and the organized markets. Current regulations and investor safeguards are also reviewed. Prerequisite: FIN 502
Duration: 8 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on the financing of new ventures beginning from the start-up stage to IPO stage. Emphasis is placed on the choice of financing to the entrepreneur in addition to the details of venture capital financing for the perspective of venture capitalists. Topics include: working capital and cash flow objectives, valuation methods, risk adoption, and risk dispersion.
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