As a finance student, you’ll be able to tailor your advanced courses to your particular interests and career goals. All finance majors also complete Webster’s core capstone course. In all of the programs in the Department of Business, students will also have actual hands-on experience using SAP which is the enterprise resources planning (ERP) systems software that runs many business organizations in the world.

In addition, our students have completed internships at a variety of companies such as US Bank, Mastercard, Regions Financial Corporation, Wells Fargo, and Edward Jones. Students have the opportunity to meet with some of these companies and many more at an annual Internship Fair in the spring.

• Students can apply time value of money techniques to security valuation.
• Students can evaluate the financial strength of a corporation and analyze capital budgeting decisions.
• Students can understand the risk-return relationship and can estimate appropriate rates of return.
• Students can describe the intermediation services provided by financial institutions.

• FINC 3600 Financial Management (3 hours)
• FINC 3800 Financial Markets and Institutions (3 hours)
• FINC 4210 Investments (3 hours)
• Elective Options (12 hours)

Four courses must be selected from the following list. Two of the four courses (6 credit hours) must be FINC prefix courses. No more than 3 hours of internship credit (BUSN 4950) may be used to satisfy degree requirements. Internship credit must be in the area of finance.

• FINC 4220 Financial Statement Analysis (3 hours)
• FINC 4300 International Finance (3 hours)
• FINC 4610 Advanced Investments (3 hours)
• ECON 3030 Intermediate Macroeconomics (3 hours)
• ECON 3020 Intermediate Microeconomics (3 hours)
• ECON 3200 Money and Banking (3 hours)
• ACCT 3030 Intermediate Accounting I (3 hours)
• ACCT 3040 Intermediate Accounting II (3 hours)
• ACCT 3085 Federal Tax Accounting (3 hours)
• ACCT 4600 Business Valuation (3 hours)
• BUSN 4950 Internship (3 hours)