The Finance minor promotes financial literacy, which is required and important for undergraduate students of all disciplines for their professional careers and personal lives in the increasingly complex financial environment. It also provides non-finance major/concentration students the opportunity to pursue secondary interests in finance, diversify and synthesize their knowledge, and improve their potential in the job market. The program offers trainings for basic financial management knowledge and skills, and opportunities to explore specific subfields, such as investment, corporate finance, financial institutions management, real estate, risk management and insurance, personal financial planning and international financial management.
In order to fulfill the CFP Board's Education Coursework Requirement for CFP® certification, students must successfully complete additional coursework.
The Finance minor is not available to students in the following concentrations: Finance, Risk Management and Insurance, and Joint Accounting and Finance.