Bachelor of Finance at Saint Louis University

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. 

Students are mentored by the outstanding faculty and then encouraged to establish a real, professional career network with the amazing resources provided to them, perfectly setting the students up for success." –Arthur Pach, Class of 2022

CFA University Affiliated 

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.

1. Graduates will be able to understand essential business concepts and how the various functional areas of business are related.
2. Graduates will be able to demonstrate knowledge of ethical concepts and corporate social responsibility and be able to evaluate business problems from multiple ethical perspectives.
3.  Graduates will be able to identify and structure business problems and propose actionable solutions to business problems and, when applicable, utilizing appropriate technology.
4.  Graduates will be able to demonstrate effective written communication.
5.  Graduates will be able to understand how cultures, politics, laws, ethics, and economies influence and impacts business and use tools and concepts to analyze and formulate an international business strategy.
6.  Graduates will be able to gather data and perform analysis needed to value any real or financial asset.
7.  Graduates will be able to understand the value of, and tools and techniques for, implementing risk management strategies.