The Finance area at Haskayne aims to be a leading centre for research and teaching excellence. Our objective is to conduct innovative and impactful theoretical and empirical research and to bring the latest finance knowledge and skills to graduate and undergraduate students. Our faculty regularly publishes in top finance, economics, and business journals. Through our regular seminar series, we invite finance scholars from around the world to present their recent research. We also contribute to financial research through the training of PhD students who then become faculty members at other academic institutions or become practitioners in the finance industry.<br>The Haskayne PhD program is customized to fit your needs through a flexible, innovative and student-oriented approach including, the possibility of cross-disciplinary programs. This program will allow you to work with some of the best management scholars in the world, build your student support network and develop the research and teaching skills necessary to assume positions with major universities in Canada, the United States and around the world.<br>After completing course work, students write their Field of Study, defend their dissertation proposal, fulfill their two-course teaching requirement and complete their dissertation. While recent graduates have completed their program in four years, typically students take five years to finish.