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The BBA Major in Finance
The finance major prepares students for professional positions in financial institutions, including commercial, investment, and savings banks; brokerage firms; insurance companies; investment advisory services; and finance companies. Students will also be well prepared to enter the finance departments of nonfinancial corporations, nonprofit institutions, and governmental agencies.
Students who are planning on future graduate study in finance or business are strongly recommended to include advanced courses in mathematics, statistics, and econometrics in their undergraduate programs.
Program Learning Goals
| Corporate Finance | Students will develop an understanding of the key concepts of time value |
Program Learning Goals
Economics BBA
| Consumer and Firm behavior | Students will develop understanding of models of consumer and firm choices and evaluate their role in real-life decisions |
| Markets and Competition | Students will be able to differentiate market structures and compare their implications for the determination of market prices |
| Growth | Students will be able to discuss and analyze the driving factors behind the long-run growth performance of nations |
| Business Cycle and Economic Policy | Students will be able to identify the causes of the short-run fluctuations of the economy and formulate and assess fiscal and monetary policies to mitigate the economic and social cost |
| Data and Economic Decisions | Students will be able to analyze data and estimate models to explain economic relationship and to support business decisions |
Finance BBA
| Corporate Finance | Students will develop an understanding of the key concepts of time value of money, corporate finance models for project valuation, and basic capital structure and dividend theory. |
| Investments | Students will be able to define and calculate standard risk and return measures, value simple equity and bonds securities, and explain the modern portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model. |
| Derivatives | Students will understand the basic applications of derivatives in investments and corporate finance and will be able to discuss the characteristics of derivative products. |
| Data Analysis | Students will be able to analyze data and estimate models for project valuation to support business decisions |
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The BBA Major in Finance
The finance major prepares students for professional positions in financial institutions, including commercial, investment, and savings banks; brokerage firms; insurance companies; investment advisory services; and finance companies. Students will also be well prepared to enter the finance departments of nonfinancial corporations, nonprofit institutions, and governmental agencies.
Students who are planning on future graduate study in finance or business are strongly recommended to include advanced courses in mathematics, statistics, and econometrics in their undergraduate programs.
Required courses for the BBA degree include
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The finance major includes three required courses (9 credits) and five electives (15 credits).
Required Courses 9 credits
The three required courses build on the foundations of the introductory finance course. These courses are prerequisites to all 4000-level finance courses. Students must earn a GPA of 2.0 or better in the three required courses to take any of the 4000-level finance courses.
| Corporate Finance | 3 credits | ||
| Investment Analysis | 3 credits | ||
| Statistical Analysis for Economics and Finance | 3 credits |
Elective Courses 15 credits
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The finance major includes three required courses (9 credits) and five electives (15 credits).
Required Courses 9 credits
The three required courses build on the foundations of the introductory finance course. These courses are prerequisites to all 4000-level finance courses. Students must earn a GPA of 2.0 or better in the three required courses to take any of the 4000-level finance courses.
| Corporate Finance | 3 credits | ||
| Investment Analysis | 3 credits | ||
| Statistical Analysis for Economics and Finance | 3 credits |
Elective Courses 15 credits
The finance major includes five elective courses that students take after completing the three required courses with a 2.0 GPA or better. The five electives include five courses in finance, economics, or insurance at the 3000 or 4000 level, subject to these specific requirements:* (updated 7/27/15)
Either FIN 4610 or 4710: These are the capstone courses in the finance major, and both are communication-intensive courses (CIC)
Two additional 4000-level finance (FIN) courses (Note: The choice of FIN 4610 above does not preclude FIN 4710, and vice versa. In other words, students may include both FIN 4610 and FIN 4710 in the finance major if they choose.)
Two additional 3000- or 4000-level courses in finance (FIN), economics (ECO), or insurance (INS)The finance major includes five elective courses that students take after completing the three required courses with a 2.0 GPA or better. The five electives include five courses in finance, economics, or insurance at the 3000 or 4000 level, subject to these specific requirements:* (updated 7/27/15)
Either FIN 4610 or 4710: These are the capstone courses in the finance major, and both are communication-intensive courses (CIC)
Two additional 4000-level finance (FIN) courses (Note: The choice of FIN 4610 above does not preclude FIN 4710, and vice versa. In other words, students may include both FIN 4610 and FIN 4710 in the finance major if they choose.)
Two additional 3000- or 4000-level courses in finance (FIN), economics (ECO), or insurance (INS)* (updated 7/27/15)
In addition, students may include, at most, two of these courses outside finance:
In addition, students may include, at most, two of these courses outside finance:
| Financial Accounting I | 3 credits | ||
| Financial Accounting II | 3 credits | ||
| Property Investment and Financing | 3 credits | ||
| Real Estate Capital Markets | 3 credits | ||
| Investment Strategies in Property Markets | 3 credits | ||
| Valuations and Underwriting of Securitized Real Estate | 3 credits |
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Students choosing an economics major are advised that a position as a professional economist usually requires a graduate degree in economics. Students planning to enter a graduate program in economics are strongly recommended to include advanced courses in mathematics, statistics, and econometrics in their undergraduate programs.a professional economist usually requires a graduate degree in economics. Students planning to enter a graduate program in economics are strongly recommended to include advanced courses in mathematics, statistics, and econometrics in their undergraduate programs.
Program Learning Goals
| Consumer and Firm behavior | Students will develop understanding of models of consumer and firm choices and evaluate their role in real-life decisions |
| Markets and Competition | Students will be able to differentiate market structures and compare their implications for the determination of market prices |
| Growth | Students will be able to discuss and analyze the driving factors behind the long-run growth performance of nations |
| Business Cycle and Economic Policy | Students will be able to identify the causes of the short-run fluctuations of the economy and formulate and assess fiscal and monetary policies to mitigate the economic and social cost |
| Data and Economic Decisions | Students will be able to analyze data and estimate models to explain economic relationship and to support business decisions |
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The economics major includes three required courses (9 credits) and five electives (15 credits).
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