Prerequisites for Finance Majors

• ECON 100 Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 101 Principles of Macroeconomics
• MATH 118 Statistics

Required Core Courses

• MGMT 100 Foundations of Business and Management
• ACCT 110 Financial Accounting
• MGMT 234 Organizational Communication and Behavior
• MGMT 250 Marketing
• MGMT 260 Finance
• MGMT 325 Operations Management and Decision Making
• MGMT 340 Strategy
• MGMT 370 Internship

Required Finance Courses

• MGMT 310 Financial Statement Analysis
• MGMT 311 Investments
• MGMT 314 International Finance
• MGMT 315 Corporate Financial Planning and Strategy
• MGMT 393 Financial Modeling (Capstone)

Electives

Students may select any of the following for additional depth in the Finance major but they do not substitute for the required finance electives.

• ECON 220 International Monetary Systems
• ECON 231 Money and Banking
• MATH 319 Financial Mathematics

• MGMT 110 Financial Accounting
• MGMT 260 Finance

• MGMT 310 Financial Statement Analysis
• MGMT 311 Investments
• MGMT 314 International Finance
• MGMT 315 Corporate Financial Strategy
• MGMT 393 Financial Modeling (Capstone)

You'll work with your advisor to tailor a program to your interests and career goals. Simmons offers many options for customizing your studies, including dual majors, accelerated programs and a wide variety of complementary minors.

Finance complements study in various other disciplines, including Marketing, Business and Management, Psychology and Economics.

A Minor in Finance is also available and provides students with a solid background in financial analysis. The minor requires MGMT 110, MGMT 260 and three electives from the required Finance courses. It complements study is several disciplines including Business and Management, Marketing, Economics, Financial Math, Data Analytics and the social sciences.

Internships are a key component of the finance program. Our students work in finance organizations in the greater Boston area and beyond, including recent internships at Merrill Lynch, Hill Holiday, Boston Children's Hospital, and Infinity Pharmaceuticals. 

Internships encourage students to sharpen their skills, refine their career interests, build their resumes, and develop important relationships.

• Erin DeCurtis
• Lecturer
• Phone: 617-521-2432
• Office: M346

• Indra Guertler
• Professor of Practice
• Phone: 617-521-3883
• Office: M438

• Cynthia Ingols
• Professor of Practice
• Phone: 617-521-3837
• Office: M347

• Yulong Li
• Associate Professor
• Phone: 617-521-3853
• Office: M336

SOM Honor Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Delta Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) is the premier honor society for students enrolled in business and management programs accredited by AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). An undergraduate student becomes eligible for membership in the second semester of her junior year. The top 10% of each undergraduate class, ranked by GPA, are invited to join. The Society's mission defines this lifelong commitment to its members' academic and professional success: to encourage and honor academic achievement in the study of business, to foster personal and professional excellence, to advance the values of the Society, and to serve its lifelong members.

Alpha Delta Sigma (ADS) is a national honor society sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. It recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement in advertising and marketing studies. The requirements are that the student must be current in dues membership, be a senior or rising senior, have taken at least two advertising or marketing courses, and have a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.25.