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Finance, BS
The finance concentration develops the skills necessary to work at a high level of expertise in all areas of finance, including:
- Asset management and Financial markets
- Investment banking in a global context
- The financial management of commercial and industrial enterprises as well as of financial institutions
- The financial aspects of venture capital, mergers and acquisitions
- Global management consulting Concentrating in finance also equips students for careers in law and the public sector.
Wharton BS Requirements
The degree and major requirements displayed are intended as a guide for students entering in the Fall of 2025 and later. Students should consult with their academic program regarding final certifications and requirements for graduation.
Other Wharton Requirements
Course List Code | Title | Course Units
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First-Year Foundations|
BEPP 1000| Introductory Economics for Business Students 1| 1
MATH 1400| Calculus, Part I| 1
or MATH 1070| Mathematics of change, Part I
Critical Writing Seminar| 1
WRIT 0020, 0110, or |
Business Fundamentals|
Leadership Journey|
WH 1010| Business and You| 0.5
WH 2010| Business Communication for Impact| 0.5
or WH 2011| Global Business Communication for Impact
MGMT 3010| Teamwork and Interpersonal Influence| 0.5
Senior Capstone| One course with attribute WUCP required 2| 0.5
Fundamentals 3|
ACCT 1010| Accounting and Financial Reporting| 1
ACCT 1020| Strategic Cost Analysis| 1
BEPP 2500| Managerial Economics (or Honors)| 1
FNCE 1000| Corporate Finance (or Honors)| 1
FNCE 1010| Monetary Economics and the Global Economy (or Honors)| 1
LGST 1000| Ethics and Social Responsibility (or Honors)| 1
or LGST 1010| Law and Social Values
MGMT 1010| Introduction To Management| 1
MKTG 1010| Introduction to Marketing (or Honors)| 1
OIDD 1010| An Introduction to Operations, Information and Decisions| 1
STAT 1010| Introductory Business Statistics (or Honors) 4| 1
or STAT 4300| Probability
or ESE 3010| Engineering Probability
STAT 1020| Introductory Business Statistics (or Honors)| 1
or STAT 4310| Statistical Inference
or ESE 4020| Statistics for Data Science
Flex Fundamentals|
Global Economy, Business & Society|
One course unit with attribute WUGE required| 1
Technology, Innovation & Analytics|
One course unit with attribute WUTI required| 1
Liberal Arts & Sciences| 7
Foreign Language Requirement|
Two semesters at the beginner level of a language other than English or demonstration of equivalent proficiency required 5|
Humanities|
One course unit with attribute WUHM required|
Natural Science, Math & Engineering|
One course unit with attribute WUNM required|
Social Science|
One course unit with attribute WUSS required|
Flexible Gen Ed|
Three course units of approved undergraduate coursework taken outside of Wharton required|
Cross-Cultural Perspectives|
Three course units with substantial cross-cultural content required 6|
Business Breadth|
Three upper-level course units from three different Wharton departments outside of the student's concentration required| 3
Unrestricted Electives|
Five course units required 7| 5
Total Course Units| 33
Finance Concentration
Course List Code | Title | Course Units
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Select four of the following:| 4
FNCE 2020| Consumer Financial Decision Making|
FNCE 2030| Advanced Corporate Finance|
FNCE 2050| Investment Management|
FNCE 2070| Valuation|
FNCE 2090| Real Estate Investment: Analysis and Financing|
FNCE 2170| Financial Derivatives|
FNCE 2190| International Financial Markets and Cryptocurrencies|
FNCE 2250| Fixed Income Securities|
FNCE 2300| Urban Fiscal Policy|
FNCE 2310| Global Valuation and Risk Analysis|
FNCE 2320| International Banking|
FNCE 2370| Data Science for Finance|
FNCE 2380| Capital Markets|
FNCE 2390| Behavioral Finance|
FNCE 2400| Central Banks, Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets|
FNCE 2450| Hedge Funds|
FNCE 2500| Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation|
FNCE 2510| The Finance of Buyouts and Acquisitions|
FNCE 2530| Distressed Investing and Value Creation|
FNCE 2540| ESG and Impact Investing|
FNCE 2560| Energy Finance|
FNCE 2570| Foundations of Asset Pricing|
FNCE 2800| FinTech|
FNCE 2830| Strategic Equity Finance|
FNCE 2910| Corporate Restructuring|
FNCE 2970| Taxes and Business Strategy|
FNCE 3900| Advanced Seminar: Introduction to Finance Research|
FNCE 3990| Supervised Study in Finance|
FNCE 4010| Advanced Topics in PE|
FNCE 4020| Shareholder Activism|
Other Wharton Requirements| 33
Total Course Units| 37
- For students who take ECON 0100 Introduction to Micro Economics and ECON 0200 Introductory Economics: Macro in place of BEPP 1000 Introductory Economics for Business Students: one of these courses can be used to satisfy BEPP 1000 on the degree audit. The second course may be used to fulfill a Liberal Arts & Sciences or Unrestricted Elective requirement.
- Beginning with capstones offered in Fall 2027, all students must complete all business fundamentals as a prerequisite for the senior capstone, in addition to the Leadership Journey courses and any other required prerequisite course(s).
- Course numbers for honors business fundamentals are: BEPP 2508 Managerial Economics, FNCE 1008 Corporate Finance (Honors), FNCE 1018 Monetary Economics and the Global Economy (Honors), LGST 1008 Ethics and Social Responsibility, LGST 1018 Law and Social Values, MKTG 1018 Introduction to Marketing, STAT 1018 Introductory Business Statistics, and STAT 1028 Introductory Business Statistics.
- Dual-degree students majoring in SSE (Systems Science Engineering) and EE (Electrical Engineering) must take ESE 3010 Engineering Probability and ESE 4020 Statistics for Data Science.
- Courses taken at Penn that satisfy the Foreign Language requirement may double-count as Humanities or Flexible Gen Ed.
- Up to one course may be on U.S. cultural diversity. Please see course attribute WUCN for a list of non-U.S. courses and WUCU for a list of U.S. courses. Two CCP course units may double-count as Humanities; Natural Science, Math & Engineering; Social Science; or Flexible Gen Ed.
- Students pursuing a second concentration may apply three course units of concentration courses to Unrestricted Electives.