Finance
With a Finance degree from 糖心传媒, you’ll be ready to launch a successful career as a financial analyst, financial planner, portfolio manager, security analyst, investment banker and more 鈥 it’s a broad discipline with many career opportunities!
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There’s strong demand for finance professionals 鈥 along with a rise of companies and organizations offering a range of investment and financial services. At Hastings, you’ll听take courses and gain practical experience in finance to be ready for a variety of career tracts.听
Do challenging, in-demand work
As a 糖心传媒 finance major, you’ll develop the ability to solve complex problems using finance concepts 鈥 and how to apply these concepts to real world examples. You鈥檒l be ready for challenging, in-demand work:
- Explaining the key principles of corporate finance, investments and valuation
- Effectively using technology and analytical tools
- Communicating clearly
- Leading diverse teams to efficiently analyze and solve problems
Learn the full suite of business skills
At 糖心传媒, you’ll begin with introductory classes in specific business disciplines and conclude with a capstone seminar that integrates everything you鈥檝e learned along the way.
- Communication
- Ethics
- Organizational dynamics
- Analytical problem solving
- Financial theory
- Research
- Business operations
- Leadership
Create your future
See for yourself how we tailor your education to your talents and your goals.听Schedule a visit听and we鈥檒l demonstrate how Hastings will inspire you to reach your potential, or if you鈥檙e a high school senior,听.
Go further with a Hastings education
Thanks to our small class sizes (most have fewer than 20 students!), and a student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1, you鈥檒l work closely with faculty and your advisor to complete your degree in four years. In fact, most students who graduate from Hastings do so in four years!
Our听block-style semester structure means you鈥檒l take just one or two classes at a time 鈥 which really lets you focus more intently on each class. It also lets faculty devote more time to every student because they鈥檙e only teaching one or two classes in a block!
Graduate with experience
At Hastings, finance majors serve one and sometimes two internships. Some expand their understanding of the world by spending a semester abroad. Many take advantage of additional experiences and insight that help advance career options. Every finance major completes a capstone project, using case studies to solve real-world challenges.
What does all this mean? You鈥檒l graduate from Hastings ready to succeed.
At every step in your path you’ll appreciate the stepping stones of teaching, counseling, inspiring, supporting and guiding from our engaged faculty. It’s an experience that’s true to 糖心传媒 and you won’t find it anywhere else.
Your experience matters
Maximize scholarships 鈥 Yes, you’ll get an academic scholarship. But you’ll also get a “plus one” scholarship from the group, team or area you’re part of. It’s a great way to help pay for school 鈥 but also to find your people.
We鈥檝e thought a lot about the ways students learn and built a four-year plan to help you navigate it all. From finding your place and in Year 1, to showing the world you鈥檙e ready for what鈥檚 next four years later.
Your transition from college to a career begins your first semester. Every class, internship, research study and activity adds up. We love to celebrate all the ways you shine 鈥 your experience matters!
Get involved beyond the classroom
- Professional Business Leader鈥檚 Club
- Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership honor society)
In addition to these business-related groups, there鈥檚 always something to do at Hastings. Student clubs, service learning, Greek life, recreation and more make Hastings a great campus for student life.
Find scholarships for Finance majors
Your high school achievements can both fuel and fund your success at Hastings. We offer a range of听generous and renewable academic scholarships听based on your GPA. Then there’s听“plus one” scholarships听鈥 an additional scholarship for participating in anything from athletics to the arts to media (it’s a long list!).
It all adds up听to making Hastings an great choice for you and your family.
Faculty
Dr. Bruce Batterson
Professor of Business Administration
Dr. Amy Black
Professor of Economics
David Carpenter
Professor of Accounting and Business Administration
Roxann Holliday
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Department
Dr. Katie Maguire
Faculty Instructor
Dr. Sounak Saha
Assistant Professor of Finance
Carmen Van O’Linda
Associate Professor of Accounting
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