Daytime MBA Certificates

The Certificate of Academic Excellence in Finance distinguishes Duke MBA–Daytime students who focus in the discipline and attain excellent grades in finance courses.

Certificate Requirements

To earn the certificate, you must take at least 12 finance-related electives (beyond the core finance courses) and you must earn 6 credits beyond those required to receive the MBA. This corresponds to a dual finance concentration in corporate finance and investments plus an extra finance and non-finance elective.

GPA Requirement

You must achieve a grade-point average of 3.75 or better in these 12 courses to earn the certificate.

If you complete more than the minimum set of courses (adding, say, an extra corporate finance course), we will compute your GPA over the highest qualifying grades.

Intermediate Qualification

To signal to potential employers that you are on track to earn the certificate, you may note on your resume, “Qualifying for a Certificate of Academic Excellence in Finance,” but only after completing at least 3 finance electives and one non-finance elective, and only while maintaining a qualifying GPA across your certificate courses.

For the Certificate of Academic Excellence in Finance, you must take:

Both:

• FINANCE 351 - Corporate Finance
• FINANCE 352 - Investment

Two of these courses:

• ACCOUNTG 342 - Corporate Financial Reporting
• ACCOUNTG 441 - Financial Statement Analysis
• ACCOUNTG 442 - Valuation and Fundamental Analysis

Two of these courses:

• MGRECON 301 - Global Economic Environment of the Firm
• DECISION 312 - Decision Models
• DECISION 410 - Decision Analysis
• DECISION 411 - Forecasting

Three of these corporate finance courses:

• FINANCE 356 - Entrepreneurial Finance
• FINANCE 451 - Advanced Corporate Finance
• FINANCE 452 - International Corporate Finance
• FINANCE 455 - Corporate Restructuring
• FINANCE 456 - Emerging Markets Corporate Finance
• FINANCE 457 - Venture Capital and Private Equity
• FINANCE 458 - Raising Capital: Financial Instruments, Institutions and Strategy
• FINANCE 491 - Advanced Topics in Finance

And three of these investments courses:

• FINANCE 353 - Derivatives
• FINANCE 450 - Fixed-Income Securities and Risk Management
• FINANCE 453 - Global Asset Allocation and Stock Selection
• FINANCE 454 - Financial Engineering
• FINANCE 458 - Raising Capital: Financial Instruments, Institutions and Strategy
• FINANCE 491 - Advanced Topics in Finance
• FINANCE 491 - Quantitative Finance

Note that FINANCE 458 and FINANCE 491 (Advanced Topics in Finance) may count toward either the corporate finance or investments category but not toward both.

Certificate Requirements

A certificate in Health Sector Management (HSM) requires the completion of all Fuqua Daytime MBA course requirements, two required HSM courses, a seminar series in two parts, and three additional health care focused electives.

Additional Concentrations

The HSM curriculum is flexible, allowing students to combine their interest in health care with up to two additional concentrations of interest within The Duke MBA program. Concurrently, HSM cultivates collaborative learning opportunities with other noted Duke programs, including engineering, basic science, public policy, law, global health and medicine, as well as with leading health care companies and organizations across the globe.

Enrollment

To enroll in the HSM certificate program, please send your current resume and a brief statement of interest, including your goals within the health care industry, to the HSM office.

Contact the HSM office for registration information.

For the Daytime Health Sector Management Certificate, you must take:

Two required courses:

• HLTHMGMT 325 - Health Care in the 21st Century
• HLTHMGMT 326 - Economics and Strategy of Health Sector Management

Seminar series courses in two parts:

• HLTHMGMT 225 - Seminars in Health Care (Fall 1 & 2)
• HLTHMGMT 226 - Seminars in Health Care (Spring 1 & 2)

Three health care electives:

Electives Within HSM

• HLTHMGMT 327 - Medical Device Commercialization
• HLTHMGMT 408 - Health Policy and Management
• HLTHMGMT 409 - Economics and Management of the Pharmaceutical Industry
• HLTHMGMT 366 - Biotechnology: Management of Drug Discovery
• HLTHMGMT 368 - Health Care Marketing
• HLTHMGMT 491 - Health Care Operations
• HLTHMGMT 491 - Invention to Application (This course requires professor approval, contact the HSM office for details.)
• HLTHMGMT 367 - Provider Strategy
• HLTHMGMT 490 - Practicum — Hospital Administration @ DUH
• HLTHMGMT 490 - Practicum — Health Care Business
• FUQINTRD 491 - Irrational Choices, Unconscious Decisions and Market Failur
• HLTHMGMT 314Ci - Health IT Business Solutions
• HLTHMGMT 315Ci - Data, Information Knowledge
• HLTHMGMT 316Ci - Clinical Informatics Strategy
• LAW 347 - Health Care Law and Policy (Duke Law)

Electives Outside HSM (with a health care focus)
The courses below may count as one HSM elective. Other courses can apply. Ask HSM office. HSM must be notified and provided with a copy of syllabi, mid-term and final presentation/paper.

• MGMTCOM 490 - Small Business Consulting
• MANAGEMT 491 - Duke New Ventures Clinic
• MANAGEMT 491 - Entrepreneurial Executive/Planning
• MANAGEMT 490 - Entrepreneurship Planning Practicum
• STRATEGY 490 - Global Consulting Practicum
• HLTHMGMT 499 - Independent Study in Health Care (Student Initiated)
• HLTHMGMT 499 - Independent Study in Hospital Administration (DUHS)
• MARKETING 490 - Marketing Practicum
• MANAGEMT 491 - Mentored Study
• MANAGEMT 431 - Mentored Study in Entrepreneurship
• STRATEGY 490 - Strategic Planning Practicum

Exceptions: While not required, students may fulfill health sector management elective requirements through a consulting, independent study, mentored study or practicum opportunity, as long as the content of the project has a health care focus. Students interested in this option should contact HSM with a short description of their project/client and why it should qualify for the certificate. Upon completion of an approved project, a copy of the final product/paper should be submitted to HSM.

Electives Outside Fuqua

• GLHLTH 340 - Health Systems in Developing Countries (Duke Global Health Institute)
• PUBPOL 254.01 - Global Health (Sanford Course)
• PUBPOL 325.01 - Topics in Health Policy (Sanford Course)

Exceptions: Other classes may apply as well, as long as the content has a health care focus. Students interested in other classes should contact HSM with a copy of the syllabus and a short description of why it should qualify for the certificate. Upon completion of an approved course a copy of the final product/paper should be submitted to HSM.