UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM:
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a Concentration in Finance
The undergraduate program in business administration is grounded in a broad-gauged education in the liberal arts and sciences designed to prepare the students for responsible judgment in a wide variety of cultural and social settings. Finance provides a strong foundation for careers in commercial and investment banking, corporate finance, financial and fixed income analysis, insurance, money management, public finance and government, real estate, and securities trading. The undergraduate program provides a solid basis for graduate work in many fields including finance, economics, and law.
The primary purpose of the undergraduate business administration program at Monmouth University is to prepare students for successful careers through a strong liberal-arts and an effective contemporary business education.
The program provides an education that helps qualify its graduates for positions of leadership in private and public sectors. Curricula are developed, taught, and regularly updated by a faculty with strong academic and business experience. They stress the development of critical thinking, sophisticated communication skills, and a flexible managerial perspective.
Who Should Consider a Concentration in Finance?
Students who possess strong mathematical and analytical skills should consider a concentration in Finance. Finance students learn to assess and price risk, apply finance theories to market analysis, and analyze corporate investment and financing decisions. Course work focuses on risk assessment, the risk and rewards of stocks and bonds, corporate finance management, financial accounting, capital formation, capital structure, banking, futures, options and other derivatives, long-term planning, and investment.
The proximity of Monmouth University to corporate headquarters, investment banks, the federal government, and Wall Street offers unique internship and career opportunities in New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C.
A Faculty of Prolific Scholars
Finance faculty research, much of which has direct bearing on the undergraduate and graduate courses of study, includes: asset pricing and portfolio management, corporate governance, corporate finance, global real-estate assets allocation, financial education, international finance, international equity diversification, investments, monetary aggregates and their relevance, online stock forums and financial services, portfolio analysis under uncertainty, random movements in capital structure, and regulations in financial intermediaries.
The Finance faculty has published in well-known journals in the discipline including Atlantic Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Journal, Financial Management, Financial Review, International Advances in Economic Research, International Journal of Finance, Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Financial Education, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of Portfolio Management, and Managerial Finance.
The Monmouth Advantage
Monmouth University is the right place for the student who needs to get answers directly from the faculty and hopes to interact one-on-one with researchers and practitioners in the field. With a total enrollment, including graduate students, of approximately 6,000, Monmouth is small enough to encourage close student-faculty interaction but is large enough to offer the diversity and resources of most state universities.
The Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University is accredited by AACSB—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting organization for business schools worldwide.
