Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance

The finance major prepares students for careers in banking, corporate finance, financial analysis, real estate, and wealth management.

Through the finance major requirements students develop an understanding of a broad range of topics including: global financial markets and institutions, investments and portfolio management, security valuation, and personal finance.

Students select their finance electives based upon their desire to pursue a more qualitative path of financial planning and advising or a quantitative path of financial analysis.

University Core Curriculum Requirements — 40 credit hours

All University of Portland students progress through a set of shared course options as part of the University’s liberal arts Core Curriculum. This curriculum offers a foundation of multiple lenses to address enduring questions of human concern, integrating the liberal arts, the University mission, and the knowledge, skills, and values needed in a diverse society and in the workplace.

See Core Curriculum Requirements

Two of the three core requirements in the Scientific and Quantitative Literacy and Problem Solving Habit are satisfied by ECN 120 and the mathematics requirements within the major.

BUS 250 and BUS 468 are the designated Writing in the Discipline courses for the B.B.A. in Finance.

Business Requirements — 56 credit hours

Non-Business Courses - 15 credit hours

CST 107Public Speaking for Change

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 - 3 credit hours

BUS 202Professional Development

1

BUS 302Internship Preparation

1

BUS 397Professional Development Internship

1

Global Acumen Requirements - 4 credit hours

BUS 360Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior and Ethics

3

BUS 496Meaningful International Experience

1

Business Foundation Lower Division - 28 credit hours

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 205Foundations of 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 - 6 credit hours

BUS 355Decision Modeling and Analytics

3

BUS 364Innovation

3

Major Requirements — 27 credit hours

Required Courses — 15 credit hours

BUS 330Managerial Finance

3

BUS 431Financial Markets and Institutions

3

BUS 432Personal Financial Planning

3

BUS 441International Finance

3

BUS 468Applied Portfolio Management

3

Major Electives - 12 credit hours

Select four courses from the following:
BUS 310Intermediate Accounting I

3

BUS 311Intermediate Accounting II

3

BUS 312Cost Accounting

3

BUS 365Accounting Information Systems

3

BUS 400Strategic Management

3

BUS 409Real Estate Law

3

BUS 411/BUS 566Advanced Accounting

3

BUS 416Accounting Fraud and Forensics

3

BUS 433Real Estate Finance

3

BUS 434Derivatives and Risk Management

3

BUS 435Sports Finance & Sponsorship

3

BUS 436Financial Analytics

3

BUS 437Advanced Real Estate Finance

3

BUS 449Python Programming for Business

3

BUS 464Business Taxation

3

BUS 467Income Tax Strategies for Individuals

3

BUS 481Simulation for Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics

3

BUS 484Entrepreneurial Finance and Budgeting

3

One 300 or 400 level ECN course

3

Any additional credit hours required to complete a minimum of 120 credit hours

Total Credit Hours: 120