The Texas McComb’s doctoral program in Finance prepares students for careers in research and teaching at the world’s leading academic finance departments.
The doctoral program provides an opportunity for specialized study in one or more of the following areas: corporate finance, investments, financial intermediaries, international finance and real estate.
The core of the program consists of a set of courses required of all students. This is supplemented with special courses and electives. In addition, students are required to become competent in two minor fields. Typically students choose economics, statistics, or mathematics, as these provide skills important to financial research.
The department typically produces a number of papers and books in an academic year, and faculty present papers at national meetings of the American Finance Association, European Finance Association, Western Finance Association, the Financial Management Association and the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. Many faculty members serve on the editorial boards of academic journals.
The demand for skilled educators is strong, and doctoral graduates in finance from The University of Texas at Austin have enjoyed considerable placement success over the years.
If you aspire to a career as a financial educator and researcher, a doctoral degree from the Texas McCombs Department of Finance will give you the foundation for success.
Our application deadline for Finance is January 15th.
Areas of Specialization
The doctoral program in Finance provides an opportunity for specialized study in one or more of the following areas:
Corporate Finance
Investments
Financial Intermediaries
Real Estate
Preparation and Qualifications
The Texas McCombs Finance doctoral program assumes that students have a taken advanced courses to establish a reasonable mathematical, statistics and economics background. Adequate computer programming skills are necessary in coursework.
Prospective applicants are required to hold a four-year bachelor’s degree (does not require a formal degree in the area of study) or equivalent prior to starting the program.
See Admissions for further information.
Placement
We prepare you to become an intellectual leader. The primary goal of the Texas McCombs Ph.D. program is to prepare students for exceptional academic careers. Over the last five years, McCombs Finance Ph.D. alumni have gone on to excel at:
Gregory Weitzner
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2020
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McGill University
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Xuewei (Erica) Jiang
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2020
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University of Southern California
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Garrett Schaller
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2020
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Colorado State University
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Shuo Liu
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2019 |
City University of Hong Kong
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Amin Shams Moorkani
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2019 |
Ohio State University
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| Jacelly Cespedes |
2018 |
University of Minnesota |
| Qifei Zhu |
2018 |
Nanyang Technological University |
| Zack Liu |
2017 |
University of Houston |
| Adam Winegar |
2017 |
Norwegian Business School |
| Mark Jansen |
2016 |
University of Utah |
| Carlos Parra |
2016 |
ITAM |
| Ben Miao Zhang |
2016 |
University of Southern California |
| Harvey Jing |
2015 |
Xiamen University |
| Donghyun Kim |
2015 |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Gonzalo Maturana |
2015 |
Emory University |
| Mitch Towner |
2015 |
University of Arizona |
Current Students and Job Market Candidates
Job Market Candidates
Thomas Brown
Iman Dolatabadi*
Yingfan Linda Du
Lydia (Zijin) Fu
Xiang Kang
Batuhan Kuzu
Jangwoo Lee*
Thomas Lee
Prateek Mahajan
Kevin Mei
Tim Park
Alex Priest
Mahyar Sefidgaran
Lee Seltzer*
Jonathan Serrano
Amin Shams
Changyong Song
Eric Vance
Greg Weitzner*
Deheng Xu
Xiaoyu Xu
Lin Yang
* indicates job market candidates
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