Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance

Degree Requirements

The finance major prepares students for careers as financial analysts, bankers, treasurers, financial planners and chief financial officers.  Students of finance develop an understanding of a broad range of topics: financial statement analysis, the effects of financial leverage, stock and bond valuation, risk and return in the global capital markets, risk management, portfolio theory and management, security legislation, structure of capital markets and ethics. 

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Degree Requirements

Common Business Requirements — 58 hours

In conjunction with the general education requirements, all business students regardless of major take the common business requirements.

Non-Business Courses

CST 107Effective Public Speaking

3

ENG 107College Writing

3

MTH 121Calculus for Business and Social Science

3

MTH 141Finite Mathematics

3

MTH 161Elementary Statistics

3

P4 Professional Development Requirements

BUS 202Professional Development

1

BUS 302Internship Preparation

1

BUS 397Professional Development Internship

1

Business Foundation Lower Division

BUS 100Introduction to Leadership Skills

3

BUS 101Software Applications Workshop

1

ECN 120Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECN 121Principles of Microeconomics

3

BUS 200Principles of Marketing

3

BUS 205Business Finance

3

BUS 209Financial Accounting

3

BUS 210Managerial Accounting

3

BUS 250Legal and Social Responsibility in Business

3

BUS 255Introduction to Operations & Technology Management

3

Business Foundation Upper Division

BUS 355Decision Modeling

3

BUS 360Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior and Ethics

3

BUS 364Innovation

3

BUS 400Management Decisions and Policy

3

Major Requirements — 24 hours

BUS 330Managerial Finance

3

BUS 430Investments

3

BUS 431Financial Markets and Institutions

3

BUS 441International Finance

3

Four of the following electives:

BUS 310Intermediate Accounting I

3

BUS 311Intermediate Accounting II

3

BUS 312Cost Accounting

3

BUS 365Accounting Information Systems

3

BUS 371Consumer Behavior

3

BUS 385Opportunity Assessment

3

BUS 411Advanced Accounting I

3

BUS 432Personal Financial Planning

3

BUS 433Real Estate Finance

3

BUS 434Derivatives and Risk Management

3

BUS 450Advanced Business Law

3

BUS 452Project Management

3

BUS 453Supply Chain Management

3

BUS 464Business Taxation

3

BUS 467Personal Taxation

3

BUS 472Personal Selling

3

BUS 484New Venture Finance and Accounting

3

Choice of one upper-division Economics course

3

Additional Electives

0–3 hours (depending upon which 300 or 400 level course is used to fulfill the Global Acumen requirement)

Total Credit Hours: 120