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Finance Concentration

Do you want to understand how money moves through markets, companies, and the economy? Do you want to be the person in the room who can value an investment, read a balance sheet, and explain what the Federal Reserve just did and why it matters? Our Finance Concentration can show you how to turn those questions into a career.

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The Finance Concentration prepares B.S. Management (BSM) majors to analyze financial markets, value securities and companies, understand the banking and monetary system, and build and defend investment strategies. You will develop the quantitative and analytical skills that corporate finance teams, banks, investment firms, and consulting practices are hiring for — on top of the management foundation of the BSM core.

At Kettering, finance is not studied in isolation. Every BSM student completes Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Financial Management, and Financial Statement Analysis in the core before starting concentration electives — a foundation most business programs reserve for their finance majors alone. And because Kettering's engineering and computer science students share the same campus, classrooms, and Co-op employers, with the Finance Concentration, you will learn to speak the language of technical leadership: project ROI, capital budgeting, risk, and cost-benefit analysis for the products and systems their your classmates are building.

The result is a graduate who can do finance and understand the business it serves — a combination that engineering-driven employers value and that traditional finance programs rarely produce.

What You'll Learn

Customize your degree path by selecting four approved electives from Business and Economics, in addition to completing the core B.S. Management program. 

In Kettering’s Finance Concentration, you will study how stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other securities are valued and traded, and how the institutions that create them operate. Money and Banking takes you inside the monetary system — how banks create money, how central banks regulate them, and how monetary policy shapes interest rates, credit, and economic activity. In Strategic Investment Management, you will apply portfolio theory, security analysis, and behavioral finance to real investment decisions and case analyses. Entrepreneurial Finance shows you how ventures are valued and funded — from angel investors and venture capital through to IPO or sale — and International Economics equips you to follow exchange rates, trade policy, and global capital flows and their impact on business decisions.

Not only will you learn the theory and models behind modern finance, you will put them into practice with one of the University's employer partners in your Co-op.

By the time you complete our unique program, you will have up to 2.5 years of professional work experience with one of the University's employer partners nationwide.

Finance offers some of the strongest employment prospects of any business field. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects roughly 963,500 openings per year in business and financial occupations, with a median annual wage of $80,920 — well above the median for all occupations — and unemployment rates in finance roles that consistently run below the national average.

Finance Fluency by Design

BSM students enter their finance electives having already completed Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Statement Analysis, Statistics for Business, and Management Science from the core. That means concentration courses start at the level of analysis and application — valuation, portfolio construction, monetary policy — rather than spending a term on fundamentals.

Finance for Technical Leaders

Engineers and technologists who understand finance are the ones who advance into senior leadership. Kettering's Finance Concentration is built for students who want to work alongside engineering and product teams — evaluating capital projects, communicating ROI to executives, allocating resources, and assessing risk — as well as for students headed into banking, investment management, corporate finance, or consulting.

Applied Learning Through Co-op

Financial analysis is most valuable when it's tied to real decisions. Kettering's Co-op model places students in full-time professional roles across automotive, manufacturing, financial services, and technology organizations — companies that need people who can read the numbers and understand the operations behind them. Students return to the classroom with real problems, real data, and real professional context.