Major in Finance

Finance graduates have diverse career choices, exemplified by the careers of our finance graduates in credit management, real estate, international banking, financial advising and consulting, bank examination, loan processing, and insurance underwriting. Career choices are also abundant in the not- for-profit sector, such as education, health care, and government service agencies. Finance careers reflect a love for solving puzzles and strong analytical skills.

The integrative nature of the Tabor School’s Finance Program helps ensure that graduates’ analytical skills will continue to be successfully applied as changes alter the business environment, including recent e-business innovations.
Our graduates work for such well-known companies as Caterpillar, State Farm, Prudential, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Anderson Consulting, Mitsubishi, Country Companies, Archer Daniels Midland, UPS, and many others.

Recent Millikin finance graduates have careers with titles as diverse as credit manager, federal bank examiner, compliance officer in banking, customer service representative in banking, consultant for major consulting firms, broker in both stock and futures markets, traffic analyst, financial analyst, director of materials management, financial adviser, grain merchandiser, river terminal manager, small business owners, and many others. Across industries, numerous CEOs have finance as their background.

Many successful business graduates eventually pursue a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA). The finance major provides an ideal background for the MBA or for law school. Those with interests in law school should seriously consider electives in economics as well. The finance degree provides the flexibility needed for those who seek employment immediately after graduation, but also prepares those who wish to do graduate study

Required courses:
Tabor School of Business core requirements
Finance 301, Financial Markets and Institutions
Finance 352, Investments
Finance 354, International Trade and Finance
Finance 364, Corporate Finance
Finance 452 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management

and a choice of two of following:
Accounting 301 Intermediate Accounting
Accounting 331 Income Tax
Economics 312 Intermediate Macroeconomics
Economics 322 Intermediate Microeconomics
Finance 481 Senior Seminar in Finance
Finance 471/472 Finance Internship
Management 350 New Venture Creation
Management 400, Entrepreneurship III- Small Business Consulting.

Or courses outside of the Tabor School as determined by the student’s areas of interest Internships and independent study areas are also available. Individual finance-related research projects are encouraged, especially for those in the James Millikin Scholars honors program.

Course Descriptions