Finance and Legal Studies

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Website: www.iup.edu/financelegal
Ibrahim Affaneh, Chair

The Finance program, leading to a degree of bachelor of science, is designed to educate students who are interested in pursuing one of the many career opportunities within the areas of corporate and personal financial management, banking, insurance, other financial institutions, and investments.

The objective of the Finance program is to provide students with a broad base of knowledge, both theoretical and practical, as well as the analytical and technical skills necessary to build a successful career in an exciting and rapidly changing field.

Corporate Finance Track
The corporate finance track provides a foundation in financial concepts, analytics, and decision-making skills essential for success in a wide variety of careers in financial management, banking, insurance, other financial institutions, and investments.

Financial Planning Track
The financial planning track addresses a full range of topics within financial planning, including wealth management, estate planning, and retirement planning. The financial planning track will help prepare students seeking careers in financial planning by emphasizing the topics necessary for obtaining the Certified Financial Planner designation.

Legal Studies
Legal Studies offers law and law-related courses with special emphasis on business applications. Legal Studies provides the student with a broad legal and ethical foundations necessary to a career in business or as preparation for pursuit of a law or law-related career.

Pre-law Interdisciplinary Minor
This minor may be taken with any major in the ECOBIT. Please refer to the Academic Affairs section for a complete list of requirements.

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