BS Business - Finance

The field of finance encompasses three closely related perspectives: how businesses raise and invest capital, how individuals allocate their savings among different investment alternatives, and how markets function to equate the demand for capital by firms and the supply of capital by investors.The nationally-ranked finance program at the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business prepares students for successful careers in finance in the increasingly global economy. Students may elect to pursue the financial analysis concentration within the finance major, which helps prepare students to pass the CFA exam. Students may also elect to pursue a real estate finance concentration. The Department of Finance is a CFA University Affiliated Program. This initiative is a relationship between the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute and select colleges and universities worldwide that have embedded a significant percentage (70%) of the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge into their degree programs. Only 261 U.S. Finance programs are CFA University Affiliated Programs. Additionally, affiliated institutions have committed to covering CFA Institute's ethical and professional standards in these degree programs. Recognition as a CFA University Affiliate signals to potential students, current students and the marketplace that the university curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and is well suited to preparing students to sit for the CFA exams.