Finance B.S.
College of Business and Management
The Faculty of Business Management
Department of Business Management
Gessner Science Hall
570-422-3251
The Finance program is housed within the Department of Business Management.
What can I do with a major in Finance?
The B.S. in Finance is designed to prepare students for professional careers as:
- Financial analysts
- Investment analysts
- Portfolio managers
- Financial advisors
- Bank officers, and
- Finance managers
The Finance B.S. will provide students with the essential knowledge in areas of financial management, corporate finance, investment management, financial institutions management, asset pricing, derivatives in risk management, international financial markets, multinational corporate finance, and financial data analytics.
The program will emphasize spreadsheet and statistical software skills, decision making skills, analysis, evaluation and effective data visualization.
Program Features
60 credits - Includes required major courses and co-requisites.
Required major courses:
| MGT 200 | Principles of Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 201 | Decision Science I | 3 credits |
| MGT 204 | Principles of Marketing | 3 credits |
| MGT 211 | Financial Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGT 212 | Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGT 225 | Business Law I | 3 credits |
| MGT 250 | Quantitative Business Analysis | 3 credits |
| MGT 301 | Financial Management I | 3 credits |
| MGT 355 | Business Ethics | 3 credits |
| MGT 452 | Organizational Strategy | 3 credits |
| MGT 486 | Internship | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 33 |
Choose six courses from the following:
18 credits
| MGT 307 | Financial Management II | 3 credits |
| MGT 315 | Entrepreneurial Finance | 3 credits |
| MGT 319 | International Financial Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 331 | Intermediate Financial Accounting I | 3 credits |
| MGT 340 | Investment Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 342 | Investment Analysis | 3 credits |
| MGT 345 | Financial Institutions Management | 3 credits |
| MGT 350 | Quantitative Business Analysis II | 3 credits |
| MGT 434 | Financial Statement Analysis | 3 credits |
| ECON 411 | Public Finance | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Required co-requisite courses:
| ECON 112 | GN: Principles of Microeconomics | 3 credits |
| MATH 130 | GN: Applied Algebraic Methods | 3 credits |
| ENGL 205 | Workplace Writing | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 9 |
Required directed general education courses:
| ECON 111 | GN: Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 credits |
| MATH 110 | GN: General Statistics | 3 credits |
| CMST 111 | GN: Introduction to Communication | 3 credits |
| CPSC 103 | GN: Introduction to Information Technology | 3 credits |
| PSY 100 | GN: General Psychology | 3 credits |
Additional requirements
2.5 GPA required in the major
Entrance requirements
Must have an overall GPA of 2.25 or greater to be admitted into the major.