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:
| MGMT 200 | Principles of Management | 3 credits |
| MGMT 201 | Decision Science I | 3 credits |
| MGMT 204 | Principles of Marketing | 3 credits |
| MGMT 211 | Financial Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGMT 212 | Managerial and Cost Accounting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| MGMT 225 | Business Law I | 3 credits |
| MGMT 250 | Quantitative Business Analysis | 3 credits |
| MGMT 301 | Financial Management I | 3 credits |
| MGMT 355 | Business Ethics | 3 credits |
| MGMT 452 | Organizational Strategy | 3 credits |
| MGMT 486 | Internship | 3 credits |
| Total Credit Hours: | 33 |
Choose six courses from the following:
18 credits
| MGMT 307 | Financial Management II | 3 credits |
| MGMT 315 | Entrepreneurial Finance | 3 credits |
| MGMT 319 | International Financial Management | 3 credits |
| MGMT 331 | Intermediate Financial Accounting I | 3 credits |
| MGMT 340 | Investment Management | 3 credits |
| MGMT 342 | Investment Analysis | 3 credits |
| MGMT 345 | Financial Institution Management | 3 credits |
| MGMT 350 | Quantitative Business Analysis II | 3 credits |
| MGMT 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 129/MATH 130 | GN: Applied Algebraic Methods with Foundation Mathematics | 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/MATH 111 | GN: General Statistics | 3 credits |
| COMM 111 | GN: Introduction to Communication | 3 credits |
| CMSC 103 | GN: Introduction to Information Technology | 3 credits |
| PSYC 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.