凯斯西储大学（Case Western Reserve University），简称CWRU，位于俄亥俄州的克里夫兰，是一所以独立研究闻名的私立大学，美国大学协会（The Association of American Universities，简称AAU）的62所顶尖研究型大学中较早期的成员之一。凯斯西储大学历来以严谨的学风、严苛的课程和杰出闻名的研究享誉世界。该校共培养了17位诺贝尔奖得主，美国历史上第一位本土诺贝尔奖获得者也出自该校（1907年物理学奖）。其商学院、法学院、医学院在业界享有较高的学术声誉和认可度。凯斯西储大学位列2022U.S. News美国最佳大学排名第42名。
Master of Finance
最快两个学期修完30学分即可毕业，也可以选择系里面提供的track specialization，学习39个学分毕业。优秀的学生还有机会申请暑期的实习。除了正常的金融课程之外，学生还可以学习最近很热门的区块链和人工智能在金融领域的应用。学校提供以下4个track：
l Financial Big Data Analytics Track (STEM Eligible)
l Corporate Financial Analytics Track (STEM Eligible)
l Risk Management Analytics Track (STEM Eligible)
l Corporate Finance
该项目的毕业生已经在银行、咨询公司、政府组织、金融机构、保险、高等教育、政府、制造、投资公司、技术等领域就业，就业单位举例如下：
申请信息
背景要求：没有明确的先修课程要求，也不要求工作经验
申请截止日期
申请材料：
Ø 简历
Ø ESSAY：需要完成2篇ESSAY，每篇ESSAY文章500字以内。
Essay #1: Describe your motivation for pursuing a master’s egree.
· What have you one in your acaemic/professional/personal life that has prepare you for this egree?
o If your unergrauate major is ifferent from the grauate egree you are seeking, please explain how you became intereste in this fiel an why you woul like to pursue it now in your eucational career.
· How oes this master’s egree fit in with your short an long term career goals?
· In what way will you contribute to the fabric of the Weatherhea culture?
· We use test scores, transcripts, recommenation letters an essays to unerstan who you are, but it may not tell us the whole story. Please explain or aress any concerns that you have about your profile or caniacy that will help us etermine your ability to meet the rigor of the program an achieve your intene goals.
Essay #2: Choose one question from the following four options; please inicate which topic you are aressing in your response.
- Discuss a major challenge or setback you’ve experience in your life. Inclue a brief escription of the situation an relevant context, your approach to managing the challenge, an what steps you took to move forwar following the aversity. How have you grown or evelope since this experience?
- Please select a current event which has capture your attention an requires a solution. What about this current event is captivating? As a business leaer, who o you involve, how o you approach this an what o you hope to achieve when proviing a solution. As a result of your efforts, what o you hope the impact is for inustry an society?
- Criticism can be ifficult, but is a necessary part of growth. What was the most ifficult feeback you have receive, an how i you aress it?
- If you were able to invite two people to inner (living or ecease), who woul they be an why?
Ø 成绩单：学校要求成绩单上要有具体的GPA和评分标准，如没有则需要提供成绩单认证
Ø GRE/GMAT：针对2022秋是optional递交的
Ø 语言成绩：托福100或者雅思7.0+
Ø 推荐信：2封
Ø 申请费：100美元。
往届录取数据
同时，凯斯西储大学新开设Master of Science in FinTech专业，凭借其在金融、金融大数据分析和编程方面的强大实力，重点关注人工智能、加密货币和区块链等新技术。该项目是俄亥俄州的唯一类似项目，也是美国最早开设的此类项目之一，最快2个学期完成，如选择额外学习Analytics for FinTech specialization track，需要4个学期完成。
该项目要求申请者学习过至少一门编程课（比如SAS, Python等），学习过一门的统计学或者经济计量学，以及一门公司金融，或财务管理，或金融建模，或投资学，或者衍生品。申请截止日期与Master of Finance项目相同。
另外，凯斯西储大学与上海同济大学开设MBA/金融硕士双学位项目。
总结：凯斯西储大学的金融项目整体难度适中，是GPA 3.3+，GRE 315+或者GMAT 650+的同学是相对保险的匹配院校，大家可以放心申请。
