Why Choose Finance?
Real Life Application
Learning how to manage finances is an invaluable skill regardless of whether or not your decide to pursue a career in finance. Many common tasks require an understanding of how money works. Some of these include:
- Doing your taxes
- Financing loans
- Calculating mortgages
- Investing in the stock market
- Planning for retirement
- Launching a business
The City
New York City is one of the world’s greatest financial centers. Located in New York are the headquarters of many global corporations, the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street banks. Finance is a competitive industry, but you will have a distinct advantage if you utilize the city’s unique resources. As an undergraduate finance major, you may have the chance to:
- Meet with successful alumni who work in the finance industry
- Conduct one-on-one research with a faculty member
- Intern at a Fortune 500 company
- Take part in the College Fed Challenge, a rigorous academic competition judged by economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Facilities
The School of Business boasts a state-of-the-art finance lab outfitted with the professional technology used in the financial services industry. It is open during the day as a classroom and remains open until late in the evening for students who need to use the equipment for market-based group projects. Because class sizes are small, you often get to work with the technology individually. You have the opportunity to learn using live market data, which adds a practical element to classroom topics. The lab includes:
- A full-sized, real-time stock ticker
- Two large flat panel TVs with scrolling financial data
- HP 8200 series desktops with 22-inch dual monitors equipped with Morningstar Direct
- 11 Bloomberg Terminals that offer:
- Real-time and historic price data from around the world
- Company financial data
- Trading news
- Analyst coverage
- Professional analytic tools