Finance (BS)

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Minimum required credit hours: 120
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GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (37-40 hrs)

Integrative and Experiential Core

First Year (FYS) or Transition Year Seminar (TYS)
Integrated Studies (INST)
Senior Year Experience (SYE)

Discipline-Based Skills Development

Mathematics
- This major requires:
  MATH 1240 - Statistics I
Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Series (LFW)
Skills Development
- Oral/Written Communication
- Language Proficiency
- Laboratory and Experimental Design

Writing Intensive

See General Education Requirements for specifics.

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (60 hrs)

Finance and Core Business Courses

Finance Electives (9 hrs)

Choose 9 hours from the following:

ACCT 3000 - Intermediate Accounting I *
ACCT 3050 - Intermediate Accounting II *
ECON 3100 - Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis *
ECON 3200 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis *
ECON 3800 - Money and Banking
FIN 4210 - International Finance
FIN 4610 - Options and Futures
*ACCT 3000/3050 and ECON 3100/3200 must be taken as 2-course sequences and must be paired to count towards the 9 hr requirement.

Department Electives (6 hrs required)

Any ACCT, BIA, ECON, FIN, IBM, MGMT or MKTG course beyond the required courses listed above.

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT

In order to graduate from any university a student should take a significant portion of the hours for his or her program of study from that university, take a significant proportion of hours in the major from that university, and take a significant proportion of the “signature elements” of that university’s general education requirements.

At Otterbein, at least 36 credit hours of coursework must be taken in Otterbein classes. MATH 0900 cannot be used to help fulfill this requirement. Of these hours:

at least 9 credit hours must be taken in each of a student’s majors at the 3000 level or above,
at least 5 credit hours (any level) must be taken in each minor, and
at least one INST 2XXX thread course, INST 3XXX, and an SYE course must be taken at Otterbein.

REQUIRED TOTAL HOURS FOR DEGREE (120)

If the coursework taken to fulfill the General Education Requirements and the requirements in your major do not equal 120 credit hours, select a sufficient number of electives to achieve that total.

MINIMUM GPA

A GPA of 2.0 overall as well as in the major must be achieved.

APPLICATION FOR DEGREE

A prospective graduate must complete an Application for Degree with the Office of the Registrar one term prior to the term in which the degree is to be completed.

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