NBA at Cornell University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate NBA coursework.

• NCC 5080Managing Operationsopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• NBA 5000Intermediate Accountingopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• NBA 5060Financial Statement Analysisopens 1 course (1 directly)
• NBA 5120Applied Portfolio Managementopens 1 course (1 directly)
• NBA 5121Seminar in Equity Research - Cayuga Fundopens 1 course (1 directly)
• NBA 6430Managerial Spreadsheet Modelingopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate NBA work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 66 NBA and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 153 more NBA courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in NBA. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at NBA 5090

  1. NCC 5000Financial Accounting
  2. NBA 5000Intermediate Accounting
  3. NBA 5060Financial Statement Analysis
  4. NBA 5090Advanced Financial Statement Analysis

• 3 courses deep, ending at NBA 5120

  1. NBA 5121Seminar in Equity Research - Cayuga Fund
  2. NBA 5120Applied Portfolio Management

• 3 courses deep, ending at NBA 5500

  1. NCC 5060Managerial Finance
  2. NBA 6730Derivatives Securities Part I
  3. NBA 5500Risk Management and Derivative Investment

• 3 courses deep, ending at NBA 6410

  1. NCC 5010Data Analytics and Modeling
  2. NCC 5080Managing Operations
  3. NBA 6410Supply Chain Management

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on NBA sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• A.J. Edwards
• Allan Filipowicz
• Angela Noble-Grange
• Angus Hildreth
• Bahriye Goren
• Carla Ingrando
• Chris Forman
• Craig Snow
• Dan Awrey
• Daniel Hooker
• Daniel Van Der Vliet
• David Nichols
• Elizabeth McClean
• Eswar Prasad
• George Casey
• Gregory Ray
• James Minas
• Jamie Hintlian
• John McKinley
• Kenneth Rother
• Lawrence Jin
• Lourdes Casanova
• Lutz Finger
• Mark Milstein
• Melissa Cohen
• Natalia Santamaria
• Nick Guest
• Noemie Bucourt
• Randy Allen
• Robert Grossman
• Robert Jarrow
• Rustom Desai
• Sachin Gupta
• Sofia Kalantzi
• Stefanie Kubanek
• Stephen Sauer
• Thatcher Bell
• Theomary Karamanis
• Timothy Bohling
• Warren Bailey
• + 3 more

Cornell professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under NBA yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

NBA does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.