Finance students don't just study money, they study how money interacts with risk and time. Understanding this relationship is critical to helping individuals, companies and governments make wise decisions about managing capital, investing or borrowing funds, optimizing returns, and staying financially sound.
Degree Options in Finance
Degree Options in Finance
At Isenberg, finance students learn how to raise debt and equity capital, evaluate profitability and riskiness of projects, value small businesses and large corporations, and make traditional and alternative investments in global financial markets. In all our programs, we are preparing students to practice finance in the 21st century.
The Department of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is pleased to host the 2nd Annual Isenberg School of Management Finance Conference on April 23–24, 2026. We are honored to announce Professor Wenxin Du as our keynote speaker. Professor Du is the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School. Her research spans international finance, empirical asset pricing, intermediary-based asset pricing, global liquidity, and market structure.
Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets
Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets
Our high-profile Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets (CISDM) underscores our longstanding leadership in alternative investments education and research. Through CISDM, students gain access to the Morningstar CISDM Database, the oldest hedge fund and commodity trading advisor data base on the market. And they gain an “inside industry” edge into how those markets perform and evolve.
The Isenberg Finance Department is committed to delivering high quality research and teaching financial markets, financial institutions, and finance decision-making.
Finance is a broad field that includes both theory and practice. Our prominent faculty members are renowned for their theoretical and empirical work in a broad range of areas. Our faculty members research a broad range of topics: asset pricing/investments, hedge funds, mutual funds, risk management, stock market anomalies, international investments, tax evasion, options, fixed income, derivatives, gender representation in business, financial econometrics, corporate finance and governance, fintech, cybersecurity, and machine learning applications in finance.
We encourage you to explore our internationally renowned faculty members’ work across all dimensions of our diverse society.
Associate Dean of Research and PhD Programs; Chair, Finance Department; Co-Director Finance PhD Program; Berthiaume Endowed Professor in Business Administration; Professor of Finance
Associate Dean of Research and PhD Programs; Chair, Finance Department; Co-Director Finance PhD Program; Berthiaume Endowed Professor in Business Administration; Professor of Finance
We encourage our students to get involved with industry now! There are many finance-related organizations that students can turn to for learning and networking.
