The MIT Sloan School of Management will today reveal a new masters in finance degree programme in response to student and industry demand for a more specialised approach to business education.
The 12-month programme, targeted at aspiring traders, investment bankers and money managers, is slated to start in September next year with a modest class of 25 students, eventually rising to 60 participants.
The degree is representative of a trend in US business education, away from a broad-based general management model towards a more practically oriented curriculum. It also represents a way for Sloan, with its relatively small MBA programme of approximately 350 students, to differentiate itself in the ever more crowded business education industry.