Finance Major – Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree
Requirement Check List
Sixteen courses are required for the Finance major with Economics track.
Four Foundational Courses
- MATH 111 Calculus I
- MATH 112 Calculus II
- One from:
- MATH 211 Calculus III
- MATH 212 Linear Algebra
- MATH 225 Differential Equations
- One from:
- CS107 Introduction to Scientific Computation OR
- DS256 Data Science Programming
Computer Science majors or minors may substitute CS 111 Computer Science I
Five Core Courses:
- ECON 103 Principles of Microeconomics
- ECON 104 Principles of Macroeconomics
- MGT 155 Accounting for Management Decisions
- One Statistics Course:
- ECON 241 Introductory Economic & Business Statistics OR
- MGT 235 Statistical Methods
Students should not take if they have taken MATH 107, PSYCH 205 or BIO 260
- ECON 267 Finance
Two Economics Track Required Courses:
- Choose one from:
- ECON 243 Intermediate Macroeconomics
- ECON 245 Intermediate Microeconomics
- ECON 3XX Financial Econometrics
Four Economics Track Electives:
- Choose one Economics elective from:
- ECON 262 Monetary Policy
- ECON 265 Financial Regulation Policy
- ECON 303 Money and Financial Intermediaries
- ECON 309 International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
- ECON 352 Advanced Econometrics
- ECON 367 Applied Finance
- ECON 3XX History of Finance
- Choose one Finance Elective (Examples: Financial Management, Financial Technology, Risk Management, Securities Pricing, Derivatives, Real Estate Finance)
- Choose two Quantitative Finance electives (Examples: Advanced Quantitative Methods in Finance, Financial Modeling, Data Science for Finance)
One Capstone Experience:
- ECON 4XX Finance Capstone