Program Overview

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Finance Major

Overview

The Finance major encompasses corporate finance, investments, and financial institutions and markets. It provides an educational foundation for careers involving corporate financial analysis and management, investment analysis and portfolio management, investment banking, risk management, commercial banking, and international finance.

Admission to the Major

See "Admission Requirements" on the Robert H. Smith School of Business page.

Program Learning Outcomes

1. Apply elements of critical thinking.
2. Identify common situations in chosen career that could result in ethical dilemma.
3. Analyze ethical scenarios and apply frameworks to develop solutions.
4. Foster and sustain team environments that are inclusive of ideas from all contributing members.
5. Apply leadership skills to motivate and coordinate with other to achieve goals.
6. Write professional-grade business documents.
7. Develop and deliver effective oral presentations.
8. Identify and use appropriate quantitative tools and techniques.
9. Use software applications to analyze and solve problems.
10. Explain how functional areas interact and drive one another.
11. Apply financial theory to solve a problem where a change in capital structure impacts the cost of equity capital.
12. Analyze capital budgeting using discounted cash flow techniques.
13. Determine the value of a firm with and without leverage.

Course List

• College Requirements:
  • BMGT343: Investments (3 credits)
  • BMGT440: Advanced Financial Management (3 credits)
• Select four of the following courses: (12 credits)
  • BMGT342: Wall Street Finance
  • BMGT347: Quantitative Financial Analysis
  • BMGT441: Fixed Income
  • BMGT442: Advanced Portfolio Management
  • BMGT443: Applied Equity Analysis and Portfolio Management
  • BMGT444: Futures and Options Contracts
  • BMGT445: Banking and Financial Institutions
  • BMGT446: International Finance
  • BMGT447:
• Intermediate ECON: One intermediate Macro (ECON305/ECON325) or Micro (ECON306/ECON326) course
• In addition, a MAXIMUM OF ONE of the following courses (3 credits) may be applied towards this 12 credit requirement:
  • BMGT349: Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • BMGT448: Special Topics in Finance
  • BMGT449: Investment Fund Management: Lemma Senbet Fund
• Select one of the following: (3 credits)
  • BMGT310: Intermediate Accounting I
  • BMGT313: Financial Statement Analysis
  • BMGT332: Quantitative Models for Management Decisions
  • BMGT430: Data Modeling in Business
• BMGT438A Applied Quantitative Analysis (QUEST) and ECON423 Econometrics II (ECON majors) are approved as course substitutes for this major requirement.

Upper Level Economics Requirements for the Finance major

• ECON330: Money and Banking (3 credits)
• or BMGT341: Financial Markets

Total Credits

24

Graduation Plans

Click here for roadmaps for graduation plans in the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Additional information on developing a graduation plan can be found on the following pages:

• the Student Academic Success-Degree Completion Policy section of this catalog

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