Finance
The world of finance is fascinating and a non-stop global force — every business operation involves a financial decision
Overview
Finance is harnessing the power of money to make things happen. Effective financing enables life-saving research, ground-breaking engineering, and building of infrastructure on which communities and nations depend. On a more personal scale, financial planning and markets enable home ownership, entrepreneurial successes, and comfortable retirements.
Your career in finance begins with acquiring skills that set you apart from most working professionals. You thrive in that career based on the trust you earn from the people around you and the improvement you bring to their lives. Ultimately your career can take you just about anywhere. Pursuing corporate finance might lead you to become an analyst or executive at a multinational corporation or a key member of a start-up venture. Pursuing wealth management might lead you to financial planning, asset management, or insurance, either as part of a large firm or as a business owner. You might also pursue commercial banking, investment banking, or management consulting.
The world continues to need finance professionals and, in many cases, to compensate them well. If you have an analytical mind, determination, and the ability to communicate complex ideas with precision, consider studying finance.
Finance is a major program of study offered in Corvallis and online through Ecampus. It is also offered as a minor.
What you’ll learn
Apply the fundamental concepts and tools of finance.
Apply financial management concepts and tools to the decisions faced by a manager in investment decisions.
Apply financial management concepts and tools to the financing decisions and dividend decisions faced by the firm.
Evaluate the corporate governance structure of firms and examine the interactions, from a governance perspective, between firm management, financial markets and stakeholders.
Appraise the risk profile of firms; specifically, estimate the costs of capital, including debt and equity capital using financial data.
Discuss the operations of three distinct capital markets: the equity market, the bond market and the derivatives market, and the financial assets traded in each of these markets.
degrees and areas of focus
of classes have fewer than 50 students
companies recruit our students each year
Options
Once you enroll in the finance program, you can select from the following options:
Finance opportunities
Study abroad
Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney
Vienna, Austria: Vienna University of Economics & Business
Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, Facultad Economia y Negocios
Scholarships
Chevron International Experience Scholarship
Deloitte Scholarship
McNeal Family Accounting Scholarship
Pattee Family Accounting Scholarship
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Ways to attend
We offer class in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.
Attend classes in Austin Hall, the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building with five research centers, a marketing research suite, 10 classrooms, 23 computer- and teleconference-equipped project rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a café and faculty offices.
Study from anywhere and earn one of our 100% online, fully AACSB-accredited business degrees. Nationally top-ranked for online learning, our classes are taught by business faculty who are known for research excellence and industry experience.
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Accelerate your education
The Accelerated Master's Platform (AMP) allows current College of Business undergraduate majors to take graduate classes, apply those credits to their current undergraduate degree, and also transfer them into the Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Master of Science in Business (MSB) programs.
Students apply to the program in the junior year and take up to 22 graduate credits during their senior year. With careful planning, College of Business students can potentially complete their MBA or MSB at Oregon State University quicker than they would otherwise be able.
Although AMP is open to all College of Business undergraduate programs, the finance program is particularly well-suited.
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