Financial decision-making is at the heart of any corporate organization, bank, or financial services company. You will learn about the key aspects of financial decision-making through a wide variety of courses focused on topics such as Corporate Finance, Investments, Derivatives, International Finance, Banking, Investor Behavior, Treasury Management, and Financial Risk Management, to name a few. You also have the opportunity to get hands-on money management experience through our student-managed investment fund.
Guest speakers frequently visit our classes to further enrich the student learning experience.
Curriculum Overview
Core Finance Courses
The details of our required finance courses are described below:
- Corporate Finance focuses on financing and investment decisions in firms, as well as issues concerning corporate governance.
- Investments focus on financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, options, futures, and the management of asset portfolios. This knowledge may then be applied in gaining hands-on money management experience through our student-managed investment fund course.
- Behavioral Finance helps in building a solid foundation for investor behavior.
- International Finance aids in developing a practical and theoretical understanding of foreign currencies, exchange rates, and arbitrage conditions, as well as currency risk management using currency derivatives.
- Financial Markets and Institutions provides a thorough understanding of the financial principles that govern the banking and financial industry, both in domestic and global financial environments.
- Financial Modeling trains you to handle a wide variety of financial problems/issues using Excel spreadsheets.
Specialization Tracks
In addition to the required courses, our students are required to choose one specialization track from the following options.
- Treasury Management and Banking: Financial Risk Management, Commercial Banking, Treasury Management, and Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
- Investments and Portfolio Management: Introduction to Futures and Options, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Business Valuation, and Practicum in Investing
- Financial Risk Management: Financial Risk Management, Quantitative Methods in Financial Risk Management, Introduction to Futures and Options, and Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
- Real Estate Finance: Principles of Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, Urban Economics, and Seminar in Real Estate
- Big Data Analytics and Fintech
Flexible Class Times
We offer daytime and evening classes so that our class schedule may be wrapped around your work schedule. Faculty hold office hours both in-person and online.
Our Faculty
Our faculty are exceptionally qualified and well-published in their respective areas, and they strive to provide you with the highest quality of education by bringing their scholarly achievements and industry successes into the classroom.
Careers
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a finance degree is among the highest-paying and most marketable degrees in business. Our rigorous and updated curriculum provides students with both theoretical and practical knowledge in all areas of the finance discipline and prepares them for successful careers in the financial services industry and in other non-financial sectors.
The solid foundation that our coursework provides, combined with our affiliations with professional certificate-granting agencies, prepares our students for professional certification exams such as CTP (Certified Treasury Professional) and SIE (Securities Industry Essentials), and motivates some of our students to pursue graduate education as well. The prestigious professional certifications that we prepare our students for are highly coveted in the financial industry and enable them to launch lucrative careers in banking, financial brokerage, financial advising, treasury management, financial risk management, real estate, and other financial areas.
Our graduates have gone to work for M&T Bank, Webster Bank, IBM, U.S. Bank, Pratt Whitney Group (UTC), The Hartford, People’s United Bank, Aflac, Aetna, Yale New Haven Hospital, Wells Fargo, Stanley Black and Decker, Dell, SunTrust, Citibank, New York Life, and Morgan Stanley, among other companies.
Typical Job Titles
- Financial Analyst
- Investment Banker
- Wealth Manager
- Risk Management Specialist
- Credit Analyst
- Financial Planner
- Treasury Analyst
- Real Estate Analyst
- Venture Capitalist
- Mergers and Acquisitions Specialist
- Portfolio Manager
- Corporate Finance Manager
Accreditation
The School of Business is accredited by AASCB International.
