My take on electives for specialization - Part 1 (Finance)

Semester III is over, capstone project has been submitted, semester IV looks very interesting... While the final semester of the MPE course is picking up pace, it's decision time (at least for few folks). Should we do specialization? If yes, in Finance or in Marketing (The only two offerings of NMIMS for MPE students)?

While I am still undecided, I took a first swipe at reviewing course content of electives offered in Finance specialization. For me, criteria for selection are:

• Prior Knowledge (What do I already know about the subject? Don't want to repeat the same stuff)
• Quality of content / how interesting it is?
• Relevance of the content (based on aspired job profile

Here is how the 16 electives offered by the institute fare in my rough analysis.

This gives me my top 6 electives:

1. Financial Risk Management
2. Portfolio & Capital markets
3. Fixed Income Securities
4. Treasury & Operational Risk Management
5. Investments Decisions in Banking
6. Retail Banking & Priority Sector Advances OR Financial Institutions & Markets

I would love to get your views on this...