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Finance (FINA)

Finance majors will experience the best of theoretical, applied, technical and behavioral finance across a broad range of courses. The foundation of their knowledge will be built in core finance and accounting classes, after which they will choose from a range of electives, including courses in the practical application of derivatives, behavioral finance, ESG investing, financial statement analysis, entrepreneurial finance and global finance. Students can also enroll in additional accounting, economics and math courses to support their finance curriculum. Finance majors will also draw upon everything an excellent liberal arts university has to offer in applying a critical lens to solving questions of capital deployment. Students also receive first-hand experience with company finance via the Freeman College of Management’s MGMT 101 course.

Students will have access to modern finance tools including CapIQ and Bloomberg terminals housed in the world-class Moriarty Investment Lab. Students have the opportunity to participate in competitions such as the CFA Institute Research Challenge and the Bloomberg Investment Challenge, and can apply to join the Student Managed Investment Fund, a two-semester course managing a portion of the University’s endowment in which student-analysts make all portfolio decisions.

More than 40 percent of students in finance study abroad during summer programs hosted by the Freeman College of Management or traditional semester-long study abroad experiences. Finance majors begin their careers at many commercial and investment banks as well as asset management, wealth management, consulting, boutique investment and private equity firms, and in corporate finance departments. Students also find positions at Fortune 500 companies and others attend graduate school. 

Real Estate Minor

From the house in which you live to the office where you work, the mall where you shop or the warehouse that fulfills your overnight delivery, real estate touches every aspect of our lives.

Like the orchestra conductor, a successful career in real estate requires a knowledge and coordination of all of the various disciplines involved in the planning, development and financing of tangible assets. These disciplines include but are not limited to economics, engineering, accounting, finance, design and law.

Perhaps even more important, your preparation for a career in real estate will allow you to make a lasting and beneficial impact on the built environment by creating livable and sustainable communities. Or maybe you’ll use your knowledge and skills to help solve the crisis in affordable housing and climate change. Regardless of the direction that your career takes you, at its core you will find that real estate is truly an interdisciplinary profession.