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Lead with Financial Expertise

Fredonia’s Finance degree prepares you to excel in today’s competitive financial landscape. With a focus on essential skills like communication and critical thinking, you’ll be equipped to manage and analyze the financial aspects of businesses, banks, and non-profit organizations.

What You’ll Gain:

  • Financial Expertise: Learn key concepts in accounting, investments, capital budgeting, and financial analysis to thrive in any finance-related role.
  • Hands-On Experience: Participate in internships starting as early as your junior year, gaining real-world experience in professional settings.
  • Leadership Opportunities: Get involved with ENACTUS, our entrepreneurial student organization, and compete nationally from your first year.
  • Professional Connections: Network with top firms and companies through events like the annual “Meet the Professionals Night,” where you’ll explore internship and job opportunities.
  • Career-Ready Skills: Develop the oral and written communication, critical thinking, and financial management skills that employers demand.

With required internships and a strong focus on real-world applications, Fredonia’s Finance program ensures you’re career-ready from day one.

Ready to launch your career in finance? Apply today and start shaping your future with Fredonia’s Finance degree!

Career Opportunities for Finance

  • Actuary
  • Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
  • Financial Analyst
  • Loan Officer
  • Quantitative Analyst
  • Budget Analyst
  • Credit Analyst
  • Investment Banking Manager
  • Management Analyst
  • Risk Analyst
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What does a 4-year degree look like?

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What are all the required and elective courses offered to obtain this degree?

Corporate Finance I

An examination of problems related to the investment, acquisition, and distribution of financial resources. Stress is placed upon integrating the areas into one system to facilitate and evaluate the operation of the finance function. Topics include cash flows, risk analysis, capital budgeting and structure, and international financial management.

Financial Investments

Characteristics of bonds, stocks, securities market, investment banking are reviewed. Sources of investment information; analysis of securities; and efficient market theory are also reviewed.

Small Business Finance

Explorations are presented of the appropriate internal controls, working capital management, owner distributions, operating and capital budgets in pursuit of alternative small business goals. A project requiring valuation of either a small business expansion or acquisition is included.

Top Executives

Top executives plan strategies and policies to ensure that an organization meets its goals.

  • Median Salary: $103,840 per year
  • Job Outlook 2023-2033: 6% growth
  • Typical Entry-Level Education: Bachelor's degree

Management Analyst

Management analysts recommend ways to improve an organization’s efficiency.

  • Median Salary: $99,410 per year
  • Job Outlook 2023-2033: 11% growth
  • Typical Entry-Level Education: Bachelor's degree

Financial Analyst

Financial analysts guide businesses and individuals in decisions about expending money to attain profit.

  • Median Salary: $98,890 per year
  • Job Outlook 2023-2033: 9% growth
  • Typical Entry-Level Education: Bachelor's degree

Why Finance at Fredonia?

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Prestige

Our AACSB accreditation means your Fredonia degree will be more valuable and impressive to prospective employers.

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Internship Opportunities

Earn up to 24 credits of internship towards a bachelor's degree. Our students have interned at AXA, American Express, and Morgan Stanley, to name a few.

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Qualified faculty

Highly qualified full-time professors with academic degrees, business experience, scholarship, and teaching know-how. Professors are actively engaged in presenting and publishing their research.

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