MSF at Illinois Institute of Technology

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 MSF coursework.

• MSF 504Valuation and Portfolio Managementopens 7 courses (7 directly)
• MSF 505Futures, Options, and OTC Derivativesopens 7 courses (7 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 MSF 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 21 MSF and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 4 more MSF 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 MSF. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at MSF 524

  1. MSF 501Mathematics with Financial Applications
  2. MSF 505Futures, Options, and OTC Derivatives
  3. MSF 524Models for Derivatives

• 3 courses deep, ending at MSF 534

  1. MSC 511Mathematical Economics I - Microeconomics
  2. MSF 504Valuation and Portfolio Management
  3. MSF 534Corporate Finance

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MSF yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MSF yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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