Finance - BS William Paterson University

Program Description

Finance deals with the raising, analyzing, and investing cash and financial assets while managing a degree of risk to maximize firm value. Students majoring in finance develop critical and analytical skills to evaluate financial markets and institutions. The degree in finance offers three specialized tracks: FinTech, Risk Management and Commercial Bank Management. Our degree provides a solid foundation and tools for a successful career in the financial sector. The FinTech track The FinTech track aims to prepare students for a wide range of positions including quantitative analyst, financial engineer, and data scientist. The major places a strong emphasis on financial analytics and software application. It is designed to attract students who wish to develop their skills for quantitative applications in financial, economic and consulting industries. The program features three elective courses: financial data analytics, machine learning for finance and Text mining for finance. The program will allow students to develop skills in analyzing both structured and unstructured data and build models to address valuation or forecasting questions. Risk Management track The risk management track helps students learn how to minimize and control the exposure of investments to such financial risks as high inflation, volatility in capital markets, recession and bankruptcy. With an introduction to risk diversification and measurement, portfolio theory, statistics, programming finance models in statistical software and Excel skills, students can apply knowledge to trading and risk, interest and inflation rate models and hedging strategies while performing statistical analysis about investments, financial derivatives, fixed income securities and financial institutions.

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