Program Overview

Program Overview

The Finance Major with Financial Accounting Option is a Bachelor of Science in Business degree program offered by the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.

Program Requirements

• A total of 125 credit hours is required for graduation.
• The program includes:
  • Degree Core Requirements (21 credits)
    • ACIS 2116: Principles of Accounting
    • BIT 3414: Operations and Supply Chain Management
    • FIN 3054: Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
    • FIN 3104: Introduction to Finance
    • MGT 2314: Introduction to International Business
    • MGT 4394: Strategic Management
    • MKTG 3104: Marketing Management
  • Major Requirements (28 credits)
    • ACIS 1504: Introduction to Business Analytics and Business Intelligence
    • ACIS 2115: Principles of Accounting
    • ACIS 2504: Introduction to Accounting Analytics
    • ENGL 3764: Technical Writing
    • FIN 2164: Survey of Finance and Career Planning
    • FIN 3134: Financial Analytics
    • FIN 3144: Investments: Debt, Equity and Derivatives
    • FIN 3154: Corporate Financial Analytics and Strategy
    • MGT 1104: Foundations of Business
    • MGT 3404: Principles of Management
  • Option Required Courses (18 credits)
    • ACIS 3115: Intermediate Financial Accounting
    • FIN 4214: Financial Modeling in Excel
    • FIN 4244: Asset Valuation and Corporate Governance
    • FIN 4254: Bank Management and Financial Services
    • FIN 4274: Equity Securities: Analysis and Management
  • ACIS Electives (6 credits)
    • Choose two courses from:
      • ACIS 3116: Intermediate Financial Accounting
      • ACIS 3314: Tax Impact on Decisions
      • ACIS 4214: Cost Planning and Control
  • FFAC Electives (3 credits)
    • Choose one course from:
      • FIN 3114: Python/SQL for Data Analytics and Finance
      • FIN 4144: International Financial Management
      • FIN 4224: Fixed Income Securities: Analysis and Management
      • FIN 4234: Venture Capital and Investment Banking
      • FIN 4244: Asset Valuation and Corporate Governance
      • FIN 4254: Bank Management and Financial Services
      • FIN 4274: Equity Securities: Analysis and Management
  • Free Electives (15 credits)
  • Pathways to General Education (43 credits)
    • Pathways Concept 1: Discourse
    • Pathways Concept 2: Critical Thinking in the Humanities
    • Pathways Concept 3: Reasoning in the Social Sciences
    • Pathways Concept 4: Reasoning in the Natural Sciences
    • Pathways Concept 5: Quantitative and Computational Thinking
    • Pathways Concept 6: Critique and Practice in Design and the Arts
    • Pathways Concept 7: Critical Analysis of Identity and Equity in the United States

Graduation Requirements

• Students must achieve a grade of C- or higher in select business courses.
• Students must have an overall GPA of 2.0 and an in-major GPA of 2.0 to graduate.
• Courses used to calculate the in-major GPA are noted with a # footnote.

Policy 91

• Pamplin students in a business degree program must complete eight business courses with a grade of C- or higher by 72 attempted credit hours.
• Students who have not met the requirements will be notified upon reaching 72 credit hours that they must complete the missing course(s) in the next term(s) of enrollment.
• Failure to do so may result in the student’s dismissal from the business degree program.

Roadmap

• The program is designed to be completed in four years.
• The roadmap includes a plan of study grid for each semester, outlining the required courses and credits.

Foreign Language Requirement

• Students who did not successfully complete at least two years of a single foreign, classical, or sign language during high school must successfully complete six credit hours of a single foreign, classical, or sign language at the college level.
• Courses taken to meet this requirement may not count towards the minimum credit hours required for graduation.