Finance B.S.

College of Business and Management

The Faculty of Business Management

Department of Business Management

Gessner Science Hall

570-422-3251

 

The Finance program is housed within the Department of Business Management.

 

What can I do with a major in Finance?

The B.S. in Finance is designed to prepare students for professional careers as:

  • Financial analysts
  • Investment analysts
  • Portfolio managers
  • Financial advisors
  • Bank officers, and
  • Finance managers

The Finance B.S. will provide students with the essential knowledge in areas of financial management, corporate finance, investment management, financial institutions management, asset pricing, derivatives in risk management, international financial markets, multinational corporate finance, and financial data analytics.

 

The program will emphasize spreadsheet and statistical software skills, decision making skills, analysis, evaluation and effective data visualization.

 

Program Features

60 credits - Includes required major courses and co-requisites.

Required major courses:

MGT 200Principles of Management

3 credits

MGT 201Decision Science I

3 credits

MGT 204Principles of Marketing

3 credits

MGT 211Financial Accounting Fundamentals

3 credits

MGT 212Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals

3 credits

MGT 225Business Law I

3 credits

MGT 250Quantitative Business Analysis

3 credits

MGT 301Financial Management I

3 credits

MGT 355Business Ethics

3 credits

MGT 452Organizational Strategy

3 credits

MGT 486Internship

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:33

Choose six courses from the following:

18 credits
MGT 307Financial Management II

3 credits

MGT 315Entrepreneurial Finance

3 credits

MGT 319International Financial Management

3 credits

MGT 331Intermediate Financial Accounting I

3 credits

MGT 340Investment Management

3 credits

MGT 342Investment Analysis

3 credits

MGT 345Financial Institutions Management

3 credits

MGT 350Quantitative Business Analysis II

3 credits

MGT 434Financial Statement Analysis

3 credits

ECON 411Public Finance

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:18

Required co-requisite courses:

ECON 112GN: Principles of Microeconomics

3 credits

MATH 130GN: Applied Algebraic Methods

3 credits

ENGL 205Workplace Writing

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:9

Required directed general education courses:

ECON 111GN: Principles of Macroeconomics

3 credits

MATH 110GN: General Statistics

3 credits

CMST 111GN: Introduction to Communication

3 credits

CPSC 103GN: Introduction to Information Technology

3 credits

PSY 100GN: General Psychology

3 credits

Additional requirements

2.5 GPA required in the major 

Entrance requirements

Must have an overall GPA of 2.25 or greater to be admitted into the major.