Our finance concentration provides both the business fundamentals and critical thinking skills from the liberal arts and sciences that students need to start their career path. You will build out your accounting, management, analytical, and interpersonal skills and have opportunities to witness (and make) real financial impact while interning.
In addition to multiple business finance classes, we offer three learning paths for undergraduate students. Those paths—corporate advisory, corporate financial management, and investments—are informed guides, so finance concentration students can structure their studies how they want.
Sponsored by: Finance Division
Faculty Contact: Jia Hao
Concentration Coursework
Choose four (4) courses from the following list:
Notes:
- FIN3511 Residential Real Estate and FIN 3512 Real Estate Transactions and Law do NOT count towards the finance concentration but do count towards the real estate concentration.
- FIN2520 Personal Finance and MCFE (Management Consulting Field Experience) do NOT count towards the finance concentration.
- Only two (2) study abroad courses, including those designated FIN5550, can be counted towards the finance concentration. A maximum of eight (8) study abroad credits can be counted towards the finance concentration. A student may receive the finance concentration with 15 or 16 FIN credits.
The purpose of concentration courses is to prepare students for careers in finance, whereas the primary purpose of the Personal Finance course is to help students, in their personal lives, to become financially independent and self-sufficient. MCFE experiences are excellent complements to finance coursework but are not replacements. In addition, other colleges and universities require as many as 8-10 finance courses for their finance major requirements. Babson wants to ensure that our graduates with concentrations in finance have the opportunity to successfully compete for jobs and positions in organizations, and to do this a minimum of four finance courses is supportive of this objective.
Independent Studies approved by Finance faculty may count towards the concentration with the approval of the Chair of Finance Division.
Guidance about Course Planning and Sequencing
Students interested in Finance should consult the Undergraduate Finance Learning Paths document.
Though the concentration in finance requires four courses, many prospective employers expect students to take a broad array of finance courses that will exceed this number.
Students who want to take finance to augment a concentration in another area should consider taking only one or two 3000 level finance courses.
In the past, students who are most successful at getting finance-related job offers also have taken at least one course in Accounting (most common is Intermediate Accounting for Finance, ACC 3502).
Students who might be unsure about a path involving finance are encouraged to try out a 3000 level Finance course that sounds interesting from the list above.