Offered in: Chicago

The Finance Honors Track provides students the opportunity to receive advanced training in the field of finance while also participating in various professional development opportunities to enhance their career prospects.  Students will take special Honors finance courses, which provide extensive coverage of both traditional finance theories and recent finance innovations, while also providing in-depth skills training on modern data analytic methods.  Students will work on individual assignments and team projects that utilize real-world financial data to solve problems and answer questions that leading-edge finance organizations regularly face.

Outside of the classroom, students also have the opportunity to participate in numerous professional development events that will help ground them firmly in the finance industry.  Events include workshops that help further develop specialized skills, career development events that help students understand and better navigate the job market, and professional mentoring and networking events that help students develop critical professional networks.

A Business student who wishes to take a Finance minor must take 18 credit hours in finance total.

While 18 credit hours in finance are required for the honor’s program, the credits must meet the following requirement: in addition to taking FIN311 as an honors course, you are required to take 15 credit hours that are designated both finance and honors, with 3 additional credit hours as “finance” (does not need an honors designation).  This finance elective could include: FIN 301,  FIN 354,  FIN 383 or FIN 385.

Students enrolled in the program are required to take the honors sections of the following finance courses: 

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Required course for all business majors (part of business requirements) 

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 Fulfill the requirements for finance majors.

CORE Requirements (General Education)

These quantitative requirements also apply to degrees in the College of Business:

• Students may apply no more than 60 credit hours of 100-level courses toward the degree.
• Students must apply no fewer than 60 credit hours of 200- and 300-level courses toward the degree.
• Students must have at least 18 credit hours (of the 60 credit hours above) at the 300 level.
• Students may transfer in no more than 70 credit hours from community colleges.
• Students must take their final 30 hours at Roosevelt University. Note that some majors have additional requirements for RU hours.
• Students must have a grade point average of 2.0 or higher to graduate. Note that some majors have additional GPA requirements.
• Students may apply no more than 51 hours in the major (BA) or 57 hours in the major (BS)

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First-Year Success is required of freshmen with less than 12 hours in their first semester at RU. Transfer Success is required of all transfer students with less than 90 hours. 

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Ideas across Disciplines is required of all new students with less than 30 hours.  It should be taken in a student’s second semester at Roosevelt. ENG 101 is a prerequisite.  Ideas across Disciplines courses cannot “double-dip” with Humanities or Social Science requirements.

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Experiential Learning courses can “double-dip” with major requirements/electives or any CORE requirement (but cannot “triple-dip” as all three).  Transfer students who enter with 60 or more hours are required to take only 1 Experiential Learning course.  Transfer equivalencies for Experiential Learning courses from other institutions can be evaluated by the Provost’s office and program heads upon request.  

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Grade of C- or better required

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Higher-level mathematics may be substituted for MATH 110 QUANTITATIVE LITERACY.

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Grade of C- or better required in the Math course

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Required for all freshmen.

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 Required for all Business majors other than Transfer students.

Mathematical preparation

Quantitative skills are critical for the academic study of business. This is especially true for accounting and finance majors. For all students, required business classes such as FIN 311 PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE and MGMT 300 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT are mathematically based. In order to complete the degree on a timely basis, students are required to take mathematical requirements, MATH 110 QUANTITATIVE LITERACY, ECON 234 ELEMENTARY STATISTICS, and any developmental courses required by the RUA) in the first semester and in each following semester until these requirements are completed.

Business requirements

Standards

All Business courses taken by Business majors and minors must be satisfied with a grade of C- or better. A 300-level business elective is substituted for the international perspective course if an international course is in the major. MGMT 380 BUSINESS POLICY AND STRATEGY must be taken at Roosevelt and passed with a grade of C- or higher.

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Grade of C- or better required.

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Fulfills experiential general education requirement.

Total Minimum Credit Hours for BSBA

The last 30 hours of coursework must be completed at Roosevelt University.

A Business student who wishes to take a Finance minor must take 15 credit hours as opposed to the normal requirement of 12 credit hours in finance.  However, students enrolled in the Honors Track are required to complete 18 credit hours of finance honors courses to fulfill the finance minor requirements. 

Students enrolled in the program are required to take the honors sections of the following finance courses:

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 Required Course

A non-business student selected for the Finance Honors Track must take 30 credit hours as opposed to the normal requirement of 21 credit hours.

Always work closely with your academic advisor to understand curriculum requirements and scheduling, as each student’s academic plan can look slightly different.

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 Or course towards an optional Minor.

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Satisfies CORE Experiential Learning requirement.

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Any course at the 300 level within the discipline.

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Internship (FIN 398) recommended.

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One Natural Science course must have a lab.

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Experiential Learning class must be 200/300 level and satisfies CORE Experiential Learning requirement.