Programs

Financial Management Major

The financial management major provides students with basic competency in the functional area of financial management. The program provides students with an educational foundation that is needed to prepare for professional exams and national licenses in financial analysis, insurance, banking, and other financial areas. This major combines the applications of analytical skills to the problems facing financial managers, financial institutions, individual investors while developing an understanding of the risks and rewards of the world’s financial markets. This program leads to careers in business, deposit and commercial banking, investment banking, securities markets, financial planning and entrepreneurship.

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• Total Credits Required for Degree

  120
• General Education

  30-40

• Business Core*

  32
• ACT 230 Principles of Accounting I

  4
• ACT 240 Principles of Accounting II

  4
• FIN 351 Financial Management I

  4
• MGT 221 Business Law I: Legal Environment of Business

  4
• MGT 240 Organizational Behavior and Management

  4
• MGT 325 Operations Management

  4
• MGT 344 Managerial Communication

  4
• MKT 230 Introduction to Marketing

  4
• Financial Management Major

  36
• CIS 222 Quantitative Business Problem Solving

  4
• CIS 440 Management Information Systems

  4
• FIN 352 Financial Management II

  4
• FIN 354 Money and Capital Markets

  4
• FIN 462 Investment Analysis

  4
• MGT 436 Strategic Management

  4
• Electives

  12
• Choose three adviser approved courses from the following:
•     ACT, EC, FIN, MA, MGT prefixed courses
• Other Required Courses

  8
• EC 201 Microeconomic Principles

  4
• EC 202 Macroeconomic Principles

  4
• General Education Requirements
• MA 109 Introduction to Probability and Statistics [QUAR]

  4
• MA 113 Finite Mathematics [QUAR]

  4
• PSY 100 Introduction to Psychological Science [SCII]

  4
• SO 101 Introductory Sociology [PERS] or

  4
•      SO 113 Social Problems (4 cr.) [PERS]

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*Note: Courses in business core cannot be double counted toward another major or minor.

This major does not require a minor.