Finance Minor (RS26)
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.
- 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 3 or MATH 10A or MATH 20A AND MGT 45 or BOTH MGT/ECON 4 and MGT 5 |
ELECTIVES: CHOOSE 6 COURSES (24 UNITS)
| COURSE # | COURSE TITLE | PRE-REQUISITES |
| MGT 12 | Personal Financial Management | None |
| MGT 45 OR MGT/ECON 4 and MGT 5 |
Principles of Accounting OR Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting |
* If you choose to take both MGT/ECON 4 and MGT 5, 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 45 or (MGT/ECON 4 and MGT 5) |
| MGT 148 | Mergers and Acquisitions | MGT 45 or (MGT/ECON 4 and MGT 5) |
| 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 20D, and either MATH 18 or MATH 20F or MATH 31AH, 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.