Finance

Boler finance graduates apply their tools, training and judgement in a variety of situations and professions. As a corporate finance professional, you deal with a company’s day-to-day financial operations and short- and long-term business goals. As an investment banker, you focus on advising corporate clients on financial decisions, raising capital through both public and private placements and conducting merger and acquisition deals. Responsibilities include brokerage services, financial analysis, financial planning, underwriting, venture capital, and portfolio management.

You might also work for a private equity firm or governmental organization, such as the US Federal Reserve. Boler finance students are actively sought by corporate recruiters and have become high-ranking financial officers of prominent and successful companies or have achieved important positions in banks and governmental agencies.

Finance applies fundamentals from economics, accounting, and mathematics to financial decision making. Whether you study corporate finance, international finance, investment, or financial institutions, your close examination of financial theory will be challenged by real-world practice; concepts of ethical behavior will move from the abstract to the concrete.

At the Boler College of Business, finance majors emerge well-rounded, with a firm grounding in the liberal arts, sciences, and communications. Our students learn to balance financial advantage seeking with a deep sense of personal and professional integrity. You will graduate understanding that high ethical principles and professional standards, more than rules and regulations, generate sustainable outcomes and lasting value.

• The Dornam Fund is our student managed investment fund (SMIF). Students get hands-on experience from day one by working with the Dornam Fund and the Bloomberg Terminal in “Investments 101” (FN 1101) and after learning the basics, students graduate to actually making buy/sell decisions in “Portfolio Management” (FN 452).
• A select group of students participate in the CFA Challenge, a global competition hosted by the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute (CFA Institute). The Boler CFA Challenge team has won the local competition for 6 years in a row and several of those teams have moved on the Semi-Global competition.
• Every year in January, the Student Finance Association sponsors a student trip to either NYC or Chicago to visit a variety of financial institutions. Our student group has visited the floor of the NYSE, Bloomberg’s headquarters, KPMG, KeyBank Capital Markets, Jefferies, Baron Capital, among many others.

The broad goal of the finance program is to extend the understanding of financial theory and practice among our students, the University, and the broader community. We pursue this goal through quality teaching and advising, significant research, and appropriate community involvement.

Upon graduation, finance majors from John Carroll University should have a strong academic foundation in finance that allows them to:

• Enter a career in financial management and have the potential to lead.
• Enter a quality graduate program in a variety of fields, especially in business.
• Seek further professional certification in finance or a related field (for example, as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA), or Series 6 and Series 7 exams).

• A total of 65-68 credit hours as described below.
• Business Core: 41 credit hours, including MHR 461 or MHR 463. A complete listing of the Business Core can be found under the Graduation Requirements for the Boler School (p. 101).
• Prospective finance majors must complete FN 312 with a minimum grade of B (or Department Chair approval).
• Major Courses: 24-27 credit hours.