Professionals in finance use their expertise in financial management, accounting, economics, mathematics and statistics to help run successful businesses.
By studying finance, you may become a budget analyst, financial planner or financial manager for a business, government agency or nonprofit organization. You may work for a brokerage house as a stockbroker. Or you could own a private practice.
Studying finance could prepare you for a career in bank administration and management. That may require you to earn a master of business administration degree in accounting, economics, finance, insurance, law, marketing or real estate. About 25 percent of UNT finance students enter graduate school.
The UNT College of Business Administration is one of the largest business colleges in the United States and has been continuously accredited by AACSB International — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [777 South Harbour Island Blvd., Suite 750, Tampa, Fla. 33602-5730, (813) 769-6500]. That means the college has passed strict academic standards for excellence in education.
UNT Dallas Campus offers a bachelor of business administration degree with a professional field in finance.
The finance program includes professional field electives in investments, financial institutions, risk management, real estate finance and corporate law. While studying in these areas, you may take courses in corporate finance, international financial systems and foreign exchange, investments, liquidity and working capital management, and the U.S. banking system. You also may study corporation law and risk management, employee benefit programs, life insurance, management of financial institutions, and real estate investments. UNT Dallas' finance program gives you a good theoretical base as well as practical, applicable knowledge that can be used immediately in business.
Most faculty members in the Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law have business experience in the area they teach. They are dedicated teachers and recognized scholars. Four faculty members were named Regents Professors for outstanding teaching and research. Regents Professors devote at least half of their teaching load to introductory-level courses. Other professors have won teaching awards and written books in the field.
The department offers scholarships to full-time students who have completed at least 24 hours at the UNT Dallas Campus or UNT in Denton, have a high grade point average and can demonstrate financial need. Additional scholarships specifically designated for finance students are also available.
As a finance student, you may earn course credit working as an intern in the field. The faculty will help you find an internship. Interested finance students should contact the department for specific information. After completing 12 semester hours at the UNT Dallas Campus with at least a 2.5 GPA, you may work in a job related to your major through UNT's office of Cooperative Education and Internships. This allows you to earn academic credit and money and gain valuable work experience.
UNT offers financial aid to help students pay for their education, including loans, internships or co-ops, and part-time employment. Students may call the financial aid adviser at the UNT Dallas Campus at (972) 780-3600 or the financial aid office on the Denton campus at (940) 565-2302 or (800) 655-3537.
A number of libraries and corporations in the Dallas-Fort Worth region offer internship or co-op experiences for students.
Taking courses at the UNT Dallas Campus permits students to work either part or full time while pursuing their degrees.
At the UNT Dallas Campus, students may take courses toward a bachelor of science degree with a professional field in finance. The degree is designed to give students a strong foundation in business administration with special emphasis on a track of the student's choice. The track chosen may influence the student's professional career opportunities.
The degree consists of 124 to 129 semester hours, which includes the university core, pre-business and lower-level business foundation courses (must be completed at UNT in Denton, a community college or other institution prior to enrolling at the UNT Dallas Campus), upper-level business foundation courses, professional field courses and supporting courses.
COMM 1010 Introduction to Communication
ECON 1100 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 1110 Principles of Macroeconomics
MATH 1190 Business Calculus or 1400 College Math with Calculus or 1710 Calculus I
Free Elective (varies depending on courses taken in business core)
ACCT 2010 Financial Accounting
ACCT 2020 Managerial Accounting
DSCI 2710 Data Description and Analysis with Spreadsheets
BLAW 3430 Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
BCIS 3610 Basic Information Systems
BUSI 4940 Business Policy
DSCI 3710 Business Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheets
FINA 3770 Finance
MKTG 3650 Foundations of Marketing Practice
MGMT 3720 Organizational Behavior
MGMT 3330 Communicating in Business
FINA 4200 Investments
FINA 4300 Liquidity and Working Capital Management
FINA 4310 Valuation and Financial Decisions
FINA 4400 Financial Markets and Institutions
FINA 4500 International Finance
Plus 3 hours selected on the basis of the track chosen by the student from the following courses:
BLAW 4450 Corporation Law
FINA 4210 Introduction to Derivatives
FINA 4410 Advanced Topics in Financial Institutions and Markets
REAL 4000 Real Estate Finance
REAL 4300 Real Estate Investments
RMIN 4600 Risk Management
ACCT 3110 Intermediate Accounting I
ACCT 3120 Intermediate Accounting II
ACCT 3270 Cost Accounting
ACCT 4100 Accounting Systems
ACCT 4130 Financial Statement Analysis
ACCT 4270 Managerial Accounting
RMIN 2500 Principles of Risk and Insurance Management or REAL 2100 Principles of Real Estate but not both
Any upper-division (3000- or 4000-level) course offered by the College of Business Administration or the Department of Economics
Any 2000-level or higher class in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Any six credit hours of upper-division courses approved by the department chair
All upper-division (junior- and senior-level) courses needed to complete this degree program are offered at the UNT Dallas Campus. You will need to complete most core courses and pre-business program requirements at UNT in Denton, a two-year college or another institution. The pre-business courses include accounting, economics, mathematics and technical writing. Once you have been admitted to the program, an adviser will work with you to put together a degree plan and advise you as you progress toward your degree.
The virtual library at the UNT Dallas Campus provides electronic access to several thousand periodicals, more than 400 electronic databases and a collection of thousands of books in digital format that will continue to grow. A core print collection of frequently used reference books is available on site.
An on-site staff of two professional librarians and several student assistants provides reference service. Additional reference service is available from librarians on the Denton campus. An online virtual reference desk chat room is available to students needing information from the Denton campus library system. The reference desk chat room allows users to interact directly with librarians in real time. Students may also work with Denton campus librarians via e-mail and telephone. Document delivery services from the UNT library system in Denton are provided for non-electronic resources.
The UNT Dallas Campus offers junior-, senior- and graduate-level courses leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The Dallas Campus also offers programs leading to certifications and endorsements, and courses for career advancement. Courses and programs offered are of the same high quality as those offered at UNT in Denton and are taught by faculty from both the Dallas and Denton campuses. Dallas Campus students earn their degree from the University of North Texas.
The UNT Dallas Campus features the region's first virtual library, state-of-the-art classrooms, computer labs with Internet access and other services to help students achieve success.
The Dallas Campus is conveniently located at 7300 Houston School Road, three blocks north of Interstate 20, and is accessible by public transportation.
Since its opening in January 2000, enrollment at the UNT Dallas Campus has increased every semester. When enrollment equals 1,000 full-time equivalent students, UNT can begin the process to open UNT at Dallas - the first public university within the Dallas city limits.
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