The Finance major provides a broad-based, analytical program for students anticipating a career in the management of both large and small organizations.
Finance provides a good background for students seeking general careers in business.
In addition, the program in Finance is designed to provide the skills required by students earning degrees in other business disciplines and by students who seek professional degrees in areas such as law and public administration. The Finance program offers applied and theoretical courses to enable the graduate to identify and solve problems in the acquisition and allocation of funds by organizations in the public and private sectors in domestic and international settings. It provides the background necessary for managing wealth in a risky environment. Finance relies on an interdisciplinary approach that draws on economic theory, accounting, information systems and the quantitative decision frameworks of statistics and mathematics. The major is designed to insure that graduates are familiar with the tools of financial decision-making and that they possess the skills to stay abreast of the developments in the field.