BBA Finance

Finance is the management of money, and since nearly every business needs to make money, Finance is the backbone of any business. With this in mind, Marshall University’s Brad D. Smith Undergraduate School of Business offers a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree in Finance. Located in Huntington, West Virginia, our bachelor’s program in Finance will prepare you to pursue careers or graduate studies in banking, business, investments or corporate finance. You’ll learn cutting-edge technology in the field, and enhance your skills gathering and analyzing financial data.

The Finance bachelor’s degree emphasizes solid practical and theoretical knowledge in the areas of financial risk management, international finance, corporate finance, investments and financial policies and strategies. As a finance major, you will study how companies have performed in the past to predict how they will perform in the future, and learn how to communicate information that will drive strategic changes.

Our Finance bachelor’s degree prepares you to plan, manage and analyze the financial and monetary aspects and performance of business enterprises, banking institutions or other organizations. A bachelor’s degree in Finance typically includes instruction in principles of accounting, financial instruments, capital planning, funds acquisition, asset and debt management, budgeting, financial analysis and investments and portfolio management.

Though you’ll need to be good at mathematics, you also must be good and talking with people and making friendly conversation on a variety of subjects. Education, intelligence and personality are all taken into account for finance jobs. With any job in Finance, you must be diplomatic and consider your organization’s or client’s goals, resources and options when discussing their options for financial growth and well-being.

Students who graduate with a B.B.A. in Finance have developed competency in:

Our graduates are able, either individually or in a team context, to review and analyze, critically, financial policies and strategies for individuals and businesses.

The 2018 median annual pay for a financial analyst is $80,310 with a projected job growth of 11% between 2016 and 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Finance degree jobs include:

Finance jobs are challenging, interesting and fulfilling — and the money is good, too. If you want to know what our alumni are doing with their Finance degrees (often combined with studies in economics, accounting, and / or international business), and what you can do with a Finance degree from the Lewis College of Business, visit the Finance Alumni Jobs and Careers Database.

As a Finance major, you have a wide array of student organizations you can choose to join. There are also over ten student organizations that might interest Finance majors such as Beta Alpha Psi and the Student Center for Public Trust. Students who choose the bachelor’s program in Finance will gain valuable knowledge and experience while networking with various campus leaders and business organizations. Finance students within the Brad D. Smith Schools of Business are welcome to join at least one student group. To learn more about our student organizations, please visit the Dean’s Suite located in Corbly Hall 107.

Undergraduate students majoring in Finance can also partake in the College’s Professionalism Certificate program. The Brad D. Smith Undergraduate School of Business offers minors in areas like Accounting, Economics and Legal Environment that can be obtained along with the bachelor’s degree in Finance.