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Jun 26, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Finance Major (BSBA)
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The Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Finance prepares students to understand the financial implications inherent in virtually all business decisions. This is obviously true for a large corporation, a major bank, or a casino and hotel company. However, it is equally true for the owner of a small business with 10 employees, for a city manager with 200 employees, or for the business director of a nonprofit organization. The finance curriculum allows students to concentrate their studies on financial management, investments, or financial services.
Please see the UNLV Lee Business School, Finance Department web page at www.unlv.edu/finance for information about department programs, faculty and facilities. Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available at www.unlv.edu/degree/bsba-finance.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the B.S.B.A. program in Finance, students should be able to:
- Recognize and apply time value of money concepts.
- Recognize and explain the relationship between risk and return.
- Recognize and explain how cash flows create value.
- Recognize and explain how information is reflected in market prices.
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Accreditation
For information regarding accreditation at UNLV and the Lee Business School, please visit the following webpages:
- Institution - Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities www.nwccu.org.
- Program - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business www.aacsb.edu.
Finance (BSBA) Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits
General Education Requirements - Subtotal 35-46 Credits
Where specific courses are not identified, please see the related sections of the Undergraduate Catalog for information about which course may satisfy University core requirements. First-Year Seminar - Credits: 2-3
English Composition - Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
Constitutions - Credits: 3-6
Distribution Requirement - Credits 18-19
Please see Distribution Requirements for more information.
- Humanities and Fine Arts - Total Credits: 9
- Humanities, 6 credits required from two different areas. It is recommended that students take , as one of the humanities courses.
- Fine Arts, 3 credits required
- Social Science:
- Automatically satisfied by business requirements
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: 9-10
- Life and Physical Sciences - 6-7 credits
- One science course with a lab
- One non-lab science course
- Analytical Thinking 3 credit course
Multicultural and International Requirement (Credits: 0-6)
Multicultural, one three-credit course required
International, one three-credit course required
These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: www.unlv.edu/provost/multicultural-requirements.
Lee Business School Requirements - BSBA in Finance - Subtotal: 72-76 Credits
Business Administration Core Requirements - Credits: 42-45
Other Lee Business School Requirements - Credits: 6-7
Finance Major Requirements - Credits: 24
General Electives - Credits: 0-13
The number of general electives necessary for each student varies based on how many credits a student uses to satisfy the requirements identified above. The minimum number of degree-applicable credits required to earn a degree from the Lee Business School is 120.
Notes:
- Students must have earned 39 credits of 300- and 400-level courses upon graduation.
- Suggested programs of study:
Students who intend to focus on certain functional areas in finance can choose one of the following suggested programs.
- Financial management: finance core courses, ACC 401 , FIN 321 , FIN 405 , FIN 480 .
- Investments: finance core courses, FIN 410 , FIN 419 , one elective finance course, RE 334 .
- Financial services: finance core courses, FIN 322 , FIN 445 , one 400-level FIN course, RE 332 .
- The prerequisites for some electives, such as ACC 401 , are not degree applicable.
- All courses in the major requirements section must be completed with a grade of C or better.
- Any course that is included as a prerequisite for a Lee Business School course requires a minimum grade of C or better.
- FIN 301 and BUS 321 are Milestone Experience courses for Finance B.S.B.A.
- FIN 405 and FIN 419 are Culminating Experience courses for Finance B.S.B.A.
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