Finance Minor (RSM-MN-005)
The Finance minor will provide students with an educational experience that emphasizes the sound fundamental financial concepts necessary for success in the industry and for preparing them to begin a challenging and meaningful career upon graduation. A minor in finance can be applied to a broad range of careers, as every industry has a finance function.
The Finance minor can be combined with any minor or major.
To assist with your planning and to review course descriptions, click on the course’s title on Rady’s Tentative Schedule of Classes on Rady’s undergraduate webpage.
Important Policies:
- All courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of C- or better. Students must finish the minor with an overall minor GPA of 2.0 or higher.
- Students may overlap 8 upper division units between their major and minor. There is no restriction for overlapping lower-division units.
- Upper-division courses are not permitted to overlap between minors. Only lower-division courses are permitted to overlap.
- A minimum of 5 courses for the Finance minor must be taken at UC San Diego.
Declaring the Minor
The Finance minor is open to registered UC San Diego students pursuing a bachelor's degree. There is no separate admissions process. We encourage students to declare the minor as soon as possible, to ensure you are meeting all program requirements. In addition, Rady sends important information regarding class offerings and policy changes to our minor students through our minor list.
You may declare a minor through Tritonlink by using the Major/ Minor Tool. For more information on how to declare, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.”
Finance Minor Courses
REQUIRED CORE: CHOOSE 1 COURSE (4 UNITS)
| COURSE # | COURSE TITLE | PRE-REQUISITES |
| MGT-180/R OR MGT-181 |
Business Finance OR Enterprise Finance |
MGT-180/R: ECE-109 or ECON-100A or ECON-120A or MAE-108 or MATH-180 or MATH-183 or MATH-186. MGT-181: MGT-003 or MATH-010A or MATH-020A AND MGT-045 or BOTH MGT/ECON-004 and MGT-005 |
ELECTIVES: CHOOSE 6 COURSES (24 UNITS)
| COURSE # | COURSE TITLE | PRE-REQUISITES |
| MGT-012 | Personal Financial Management | None |
| MGT-045 OR MGT/ECON-004 and MGT-005 |
Principles of Accounting OR Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting |
* If you choose to take both MGT/ECON-004 and MGT-005, they must both be completed to apply as ONE elective. Send Rady Advising a VAC message after you complete both so we can update your degree audit. |
| MGT-137 | Financial Statement Analysis | MGT-045 or (MGT/ECON-004 and MGT-005) |
| MGT-148 | Mergers and Acquisitions | MGT-045 or (MGT/ECON-004 and MGT-005) |
| MGT-158 | Real Estate and the Tech Sector | None |
| MGT-176 | Strategic Cost Management | None |
| MGT-183 | Financial Investments | MGT-180/R or MGT-181 or MGT-187 or ECON-173B |
| MGT-184 | Money and Banking | MGT-180/R or MGT-181 or MGT-187 or ECON-173B |
| MGT-185 | Investment Banking | MGT-180/R or MGT-181 or MGT-187 or ECON-173B |
| MGT-187 | New Venture Finance | None |
| MGT-188 | Collecting and Analyzing Financial Data | MGT-180/R or MGT-181 or MGT-187 |
| MGT-189 | Topics in Finance | MGT-180/R or MGT-181 or MGT-187 * May be taken up to three times if the course is a different topic each time it is taken. |
| MATH-193A | Actuarial Mathematics I | MATH-180A or MATH-183 or consent of Instructor |
| MATH-193B | Actuarial Mathematics II | MATH-193A or consent of Instructor |
| MATH-194 | The Mathematics of Finance | MATH-020D, and either MATH-018 or MATH-020F or MATH-031AH, and MATH-180A. * Students who have not completed listed prerequisites may enroll with the consent of instructor. Students completing ECON 120A instead of MATH-180A must obtain consent of instructor to enroll. |
Questions?
Current UC San Diego students: Please submit your questions via the VAC and an advisor will respond in 1–3 business days.
Non-UC San Diego students: Email us at undergrad@rady.ucsd.edu.
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