The Financial Economics Major provides a comprehensive foundation to launch your career in finance.
Financial Economics at the Mount
- Current Topics in Finance
- Fundamentals of Investing
- International Economics and Finance
- Macroeconomic Theory
- Money and Banking.
Co-op and service learning immerse students in the real world and provide rich opportunities for experiential learning and the application of skills and knowledge learned in the classroom. Students work under the supervision of a faculty member and an agency professional in a variety of non-profit and for-profit organizations and community partners.
Business students are encouraged to take advantage of co-op opportunities and a variety of career services and programs available through the university Career and Experiential Education Center.
Minors:
Graduates with a major in financial economics will:
- Be able to analyze business situations and make creative, logical, and ethical decisions.
- Be skilled users of technologies as used in business.
- Communicate effectively in business situations.
- Have a current and broad-based knowledge of business.
- Apply awareness of global and social issues in the business environment.
- Demonstrate a strong foundation in economic theory, concepts, and principles as applied to financial markets, banks, and other financial institutions.
- Apply tools and models of contemporary financial economics as practiced by financial analysts and financial advisors.
- Describe how producers, consumers, and governments interact to drive financial markets and economies.
- Assess critically ethical issues in the realm of financial markets.
Graduates with a major in Financial Economics can pursue careers in a variety of fields including:
- Banking
- Insurance firms
- Money management
- Investment banking
- Government
- Financial Advisor
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