Commercial Banking, Graduate Certificate

The Graduate Certificate in Commercial Banking provides online graduate students with focused preparation for careers in commercial banking. Students will be educated regarding commercial banking, credit analysis, financial statement analysis, financial intermediaries and markets, mortgage backed securities, and risk management. A total of 12 hours is required for the certificate.

Certificate Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Required Courses
FIN 5112	Investments	2
FIN 5392	Financial Intermediation and Banking	2
ACCT 5352	Financial Statement Analysis Theory and Methods	2
Additional Required Course
Choose one of the following:		2
FIN 5332	Portfolio Risk Management
FIN 5342	Advanced Corporate Finance
FIN Electives
Choose two courses from a list maintained by the Finance Division and Approved by the Graduate College		4
Total Credit Hours		12

A graduate certificate is not a graduate degree. A graduate degree represents a program of independent inquiry beyond the depth of coursework alone, while a graduate certificate represents a set of courses only.

• All courses must be taken at OU. No transfer credit will apply.
• No course substitutions are permitted for graduate certificates.
• Coursework applied to a graduate certificate cannot be more than five years old as of the semester the graduate certificate is awarded.
• Students must earn a grade point average of 3.00 or higher on all coursework applied to the graduate certificate.