Anyone know of any masters program in the New England area or distance education where there are a few courses taught directly to the CFA exams? I am taking level 2 in June and may eventually want to apply for a masters (not sure yet if that means MBA or MSF or what)… but I’m thinking it would be smarter to try to get some credits out of the way, assuming they can be transferred, to prep for the level 2 exam rather than taking a stall review course or something similar.
BU Masters in Investment Management. The program was created as a stand alone master but to also help you pass the CFA program. I suspect most master in finance programs will cover material on the CFA.
I was going to take MS (yes there is a concentration geared towards the CFA) but decided against it and went after MBA, why would you pay money to learn the same thing twice? MS + charter is overkill, an MBA looks much nicer widens your opportunities, and you could always take finance classes as electives if you just had to have university courses prep you for CFA
yeah i saw that… i guess a better question is what masters programs (that are decent) allow you to be exempt or “test out” of certain classes by obtaing the CFA (or just certain exams)
cfagoal2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was going to take MS (yes there is a > concentration geared towards the CFA) but decided > against it and went after MBA, why would you pay > money to learn the same thing twice? MS + charter > is overkill, an MBA looks much nicer widens your > opportunities, and you could always take finance > classes as electives if you just had to have > university courses prep you for CFA MS is only overlapping if it is in finance. An MFE is extremely different, and much harder than CFA/MBA programs. To the contrary, MBA programs overlap significantly with the CFA material (except for the qualitative marketing and OB classes).
I found a lot of my Ugrad courses had a lot of overlap with L1. Sorry, no value added in this post, just sayin.