The Finance concentration offers a B.A. in Business Administration with a Finance Major.
Finance is among the more dynamic areas in business administration.
The globalization of markets and exchanges, and the proliferation of sophisticated financial instruments, necessitate firms to use high level financial expertise. Without the most advanced methods of pricing, raising capital, selection of investment projects, risk management, and mergers and acquisition activity, today's firms and capital market players cannot be competitive. The Finance program balances theoretical foundations and applied courses in teaching resource allocation over time, valuing risky streams of cash flows, asymmetric information problems, and agency problems. Course topics include managerial finance, investments, banking, derivative assets, risk management, portfolio management, and a seminar where students submit a consulting project of assessing a firm's value or an aspect of the capital market performance. In addition to pursuing rewarding careers and dealing with the world of business, finance majors will learn to manage their personal resources.