Top Business Schools for Corporate Finance 2019

Booth’s highly-analytical curriculum helps grads land jobs in a variety of corporate finance roles. Typically, over 35 percent of Booth’s MBA grads go into functional roles in finance. The student-led “Corporate Finance Group” is a great networking resource for Booth MBAs who are interested in the field. Students can choose to pursue Booth’s MBA concentrations in either Finance or Analytic Finance.

Through the MBA program’s Corporate Finance concentration, students can learn the ins and outs of financial statement analysis, derivatives, and more. Some 35 percent of UNC’s MBA class of 2018 went into finance roles, an increase over previous years. Students can choose to pursue the school’s MBA concentration in Corporate Finance. 

Through the school's MBA concentration in Finance, students have landed jobs in Fortune 500 financial firms like Bank of America and Morgan Stanley. In the past, the Financial Times has listed Simon as a top-ten school for finance in its Global MBA rankings. Over 34 percent of Simon’s MBA class of 2018 went into functional roles in finance or accounting.

The school’s Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking puts on a range of events and helps students land corporate finance jobs. The school offers a specialized MBA in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, which gives students some practical experience through some corporate finance consulting projects.

Over 44 percent of the MBA class of 2018 went into functional roles in finance, the highest percentage of all schools surveyed by FIND MBA. The school offers an MBA concentration in Finance; faculty members publish a range of research on financial topics each year.

Through the school’s Managerial Finance Immersion program, MBAs can understand how corporate finance works in theory, and then through site visits and practicums they can see how it works in practice. Some 32 percent of the class of 2018 went into functional roles in finance. Cornell offers MBA concentrations in Corporate Finance, Finance, Financial Investing and Financial Analysis.

Forty-two percent of the HKUST MBA class of 2018 went into functional roles in finance. While the core MBA curriculum touches on corporate finance, students can delve further into the subject through the Finance concentration. 

As part of Northeastern’s MBA concentration in Finance, students can delve into corporate finance topics through classes like business turnarounds, finance strategy, and more. They can also opt to focus on a corporate finance role as part of the MBA program’s corporate residency, which means taking away real work experience. Forty-two percent of Northeastern’s MBA class of 2018 went into functional roles in finance.

The school publishes a range of research on finance-related topics, through several different research centers. Over 31 percent of the MBA class of 2018 went into finance roles. Students can opt to do an MBA concentration in Finance.

McCombs’ MBA program offers an MBA concentration in Corporate Finance that addresses a range of issues significant to the discipline. Some 29 percent of the class of 2018 went into finance roles; this number was 37 percent in 2014