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Duluth Campus
Finance B.B.A.Finance & Management Information Sciences
Labovitz School of Business and Economics
This professionally oriented program emphasizes the competencies required for management careers in business, government, public, or social service organizations. The program prepares students for entering careers with management responsibility by providing a breadth and depth of knowledge about organizations, management fundamentals, techniques, processes, and skills, combined with a foundation in the functional areas of accounting, business law, finance, information systems, marketing, operations, and human resource management.
The B.B.A. offers a broad educational experience while preparing students for a variety of technical and management careers. With about one-half of the required coursework from nonbusiness disciplines, emphasis is on the development of a strong liberal arts education that provides a foundation for the required and elective professional courses. The program's core curriculum focuses on the fundamental administrative and functional skills demanded of leaders in today's public and private organizations. Students are permitted sufficient latitude in choosing electives appropriate to their particular professional objectives in finance, health care management, human resource management, organizational management, management information systems, or marketing.
In addition to classroom-based courses, students may participate in internship programs where classroom learning may be applied during professional experience as an employee of a public agency or private business. Students also may participate in the Student to Business Initiative (SBI) which offers the opportunity to use knowledge and skills to identify, analyze, and solve problems confronting small businesses. Both programs provide practical tests of vocational interests and valuable work experience.
The finance major is designed for students pursuing careers in corporate financial management, investment and portfolio management, and management of financial institutions.
Honors Program: Degree candidates must earn a 3.30 GPA in all LSBE upper division courses.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
Freshman and transfer students are usually admitted to pre-major status
before admission to this major.
A GPA above 2.0 is preferred for the following:
Freshmen and transfer students are typically admitted as pre-business students for all B.B.A. majors. Admission to candidacy status, which allows access to upper division LSBE classes, typically occurs at the junior level when students have successfully completed all pre-major (pre-candidacy) course requirements and met all of the GPA standards. Students with a 2.60 UM and overall and a 2.00 internal and pre-major are admitted upon completion of pre-major courses; students with a 2.00-2.59 UM and overall and a 2.00 internal and pre-major GPAs are pooled and reviewed for evidence of academic success in LSBE majors.
Students who do not qualify for admission to candidacy may not take upper division LSBE courses (excluding some economics courses) without permission of the director of student affairs.
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
Required prerequisites
Introductory Course (1 cr)
This course is not required for students who change colleges into Labovitz School of Business and Economics.
UST 1000 - Learning in Community
(1.0-2.0 cr)
Required prerequisites
Pre-major Requirements (35 cr)
Electives: additional non-LSBE courses to bring total to 60 pre-candidacy credits. Non-LSBE statistics courses cannot be used to fulfill elective requirements.
ACCT 2001 - Principles of Financial Accounting
(3.0 cr)
ACCT 2002 - Principles of Managerial Accounting
(3.0 cr)
BLAW 2001 - The Legal Environment
[LE CAT8, HUMANITIES]
(3.0 cr)
ECON 1022 - Principles of Economics: Macro
[LE CAT, SOC SCI]
(3.0 cr)
ECON 1023 - Principles of Economics: Micro
[LE CAT, SOC SCI]
(3.0 cr)
ECON 2030 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics
[LOGIC & QR]
(3.0 cr)
MIS 2201 - Information Technology in Business
(3.0 cr)
PSY 1003 - General Psychology
[LE CAT, SOC SCI]
(4.0 cr)
WRIT 1120 - College Writing
[LE CAT, WRITING]
(3.0 cr)
General Requirements
Program Requirements
Requirement for the B.B.A. in finance include:
* LSBE students are encouraged to take at least one year of college-level foreign language.
* Strict limitations on use of correspondence courses. See LSBE Student Affairs.
* At least 50 percent of the required accounting, business, and upper division economics credits must be taken at UMD.
* At least 20 of the last 30 degree credits immediately before graduation must be taken at UMD.
LSBE Core (18 cr)
MGTS 3301 - Production and Operations Management
(3.0 cr)
FIN 3601 - Corporate Finance
(3.0 cr)
MGTS 3401 - Organizational Behavior and Management
(3.0 cr)
MKTG 3701 - Principles of Marketing
(3.0 cr)
MGTS 3801 - Human Resource Management
(3.0 cr)
MGTS 4481 - Strategic Management
(3.0 cr)
Finance Group B (9 cr)
Take 3 or more course(s) totaling 9 or more credit(s) from the following:
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FIN 3619 - Analysis of Financial Statements
(3.0 cr)
·
FIN 3649 - International Finance
(3.0 cr)
·
FIN 3655 - Risk Management and Insurance
(3.0 cr)
·
FIN 3695 {Inactive}
(1.0-3.0 cr)
·
FIN 4615 - Derivative Securities
(3.0 cr)
·
FIN 4617 - Management of Financial Institutions
(3.0 cr)
·
FIN 4644 - Portfolio Management
(3.0 cr)
·
FMIS 4695 {Inactive}
(1.0-3.0 cr)
Supporting Courses (18 cr)
In addition to the economics and international requirements listed below, complete upper division (3xxx or above) non-LSBE courses for a total of 18 credits of supporting courses. NOTE: PSY 3020, SOC 3155, STAT 3411, or STAT 3611 cannot be used to fulfill this requirement.
Economics Requirement
Take exactly 1 course(s) from the following:
·
ECON 3xxx
·
ECON 4xxx
International Requirement
Take exactly 1 course(s) from the following:
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ACCT 4505 - International Accounting
(3.0 cr)
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AMIN 3410 - Fur Trade in Canada and the United States
[CDIVERSITY]
(3.0 cr)
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ANTH 3628 - Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(3.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3632 - Latin American Cultures
(3.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3638 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
(3.0 cr)
·
ECON 3150 - Development Economics
(3.0 cr)
·
ECON 3402 - Global Economic Issues
(3.0 cr)
·
ECON 4410 - International Economics
(3.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3501 - British Literature I
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3502 - British Literature II
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 5566 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 5583 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
FIN 3649 - International Finance
(3.0 cr)
·
FR 4412 - Contemporary French Culture and Society
[HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
FR 4422 {Inactive}
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
FST 4225 - INTB 4201, Chinese Business and Economics
[GLOBAL PER]
(3.0 cr)
·
FST 4295 - INTB 4211 Innovation in Ireland (GLOBAL PER)
[GLOBAL PER]
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3461 - Geography of Global Resources
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3702 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
GEOG 3762 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
GER 4302 - German Women Writers and Filmmakers
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
GER 4305 - German Cinema
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
GER 4404 - Contemporary Germany
[HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
HCM 4560 - International Comparisons of Health Care Systems
(3.0 cr)
·
HIST 3243 - Europe in Crisis in the 20th Century
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3244 - Holocaust & Genocide in Europe in the 20th Century
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3257 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3264 - Russian Empire under the Tsars: Russia under the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Lenin
[GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3386 - The United States and the World since 1898
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3615 - Modern Africa
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3616 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3726 - Modern Middle East: 18th Century-Present
[GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3825 - Islamic History from Muhammad to the Ottomans
[GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
INTB 3201 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
MGTS 4474 - International Management
(3.0 cr)
·
MGTS 4483 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
·
MGTS 4861 - International Human Resource Management
(3.0 cr)
·
MKTG 4774 - International Marketing
(3.0 cr)
·
POL 3451 - Theories of International Relations
(4.0 cr)
·
POL 3456 - International Security: War and More
(4.0 cr)
·
POL 3517 - Western European Political Systems
(4.0 cr)
·
POL 3570 - Politics of Developing Nations
(3.0 cr)
·
SOC 3945 - Social Stratification
(3.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3042 - Civilization, Cultures and Communities in Latin America
[HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3044 - Civilization, Cultures and Communities of Spain
[HUMANITIES, GLOBAL PER]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 4011 - Latin American Prose
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 4017 - Latin American Cinema and Culture
[FINE ARTS]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 4018 - Latin America From Within
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 4027 - Contemporary Literature and Culture of Spain
[HUMANITIES]
(4.0 cr)
·
WS 3000 - Transnational Perspectives on Feminism
[SOC SCI, GLOBAL PER]
(3.0 cr)
·
WS 3001 - Gender Relations in the Global South
[GLOBAL PER]
(3.0 cr)
·
WS 3002 - Latin American Women: Culture and Politics
(3.0 cr)
·
WS 3400 - Women and Film
[GLOBAL PER]
(3.0 cr)
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