The program provides students with an educational foundation that is needed to prepare for professional exams and national licenses in financial analysis, insurance, banking, risk management and other financial areas. This major combines the applications of analytical skills to the problems facing financial managers, financial institutions, individual investors while developing an understanding of the risks and rewards of the world’s financial markets. This program leads to careers in business, deposit and commercial banking, investment banking, securities markets, insurance, risk management, financial planning and entrepreneurship.