Bachelor of Arts in Finance
Lamoni, USA
DURATION
4 up to 6 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 20,950 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* tuition 2025-26
Key Summary
Introduction
As a finance professional, you'll play a critical role in guiding and influencing business decisions. Your expertise in financial analysis, risk assessment, and strategic planning is key to helping shape important decisions that contribute to the success of organizations. Alternatively, with a business degree in finance, you could pursue a career as a financial planner. Your understanding of financial markets and investments will allow you to help clients navigate financial decisions and attain their own financial goals.
Graceland’s finance major is built on coursework in finance, economics, mathematics, and accounting that will provide you with strong quantitative, critical, and analytical thinking skills. Upon this foundational knowledge, you will be equipped with career-focused, field-specific finance content that features experiential and simulation-based learning grounded in a professional code of ethics.
Why Choose a Degree in Finance at Graceland?
Graceland’s finance major is designed to complement other business-related majors, allowing for seamless double or even triple majors that deliver a greater degree of specialization and preparation for the most popular jobs in the modern business world. The finance major program’s curriculum is built on the founding principle of preparing students to be socially aware and ready to launch careers that will make the world a better place.
We’ll provide you with opportunities to hone your skills by participating in the Graceland University Investment Club. The collaborative environment at Graceland offers students close working relationships with their peers and professors, enhanced by a highly engaged alumni base offering access to and ability to build a strong professional network.
Curriculum
BA Degree – Finance Major
In addition to the general education requirements, majors in Finance must complete a concentration of 36 semester hours in Accounting, Business, and Economics including:
- ACCT2310 Financial Accounting – 3 s.h.
- ACCT2320 Managerial Accounting – 3 s.h.
- BUAD3370 Corporate Finance and Financial Modeling – 3 s.h.
- BUAD3380 Principles of Business Finance – 3 s.h.
- BUAD4100 Investment Analysis – 3 s.h.
- BUAD4190 Innovations in Finance – 3 s.h.
- BUAD4220 Seminar in Accounting and Finance – 3 s.h.
- ECON1320 Principles of Microeconomics – 3 s.h.
- ECON2100 Introductory Economic Data Analysis – 3 s.h.
- ECON3200 Public Finance – 3 s.h.
- ECON3320 Money and Banking – 3 s.h.
Choose 1 of the following 4 courses:
- BUAD3320 Principles of Management – 3 s.h.
- BUAD3340 Business Law – 3 s.h.
- BUAD3420 International Finance – 3 s.h.
- ECON3430 Managerial Economics – 3 s.h.
Courses Required for General Education:
- ECON1300 Principles of Macroeconomics – 3 s.h.
- MATH1280 College Algebra – 3 s.h.
- MATH1370 Statistics for Sciences – 3 s.h.
Strongly Recommended:
- BUAD4120 Internship in Finance – 3 s.h.
- BUAD3310 Principles of Sales – 3 s.h.
- Membership in Investment Club
Career Opportunities
Graceland’s finance major is built on coursework in finance, economics, mathematics, and accounting that will provide you with strong quantitative, critical, and analytical thinking skills required to be successful in this industry. A Finance major from Graceland University can help to prepare you for these careers:
- Credit Analyst
- Securities Trader
- Financial Analyst
- Risk Specialist
- Financial Planner
- Investment Banker
- Actuary
…and many other exciting fields.