Bachelor of Business Administration Degree (B.B.A.)
Financial Services

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SAMPLE COURSE SEQUENCE

FIRST SEMESTER

CREDITS

MGT2220
Principles of Management
3
CIS1115
Computer Applications
3
SOC2231
Human Relations
3
SOC1123
First Year Experience
3
ENG1105
Writing and Research
3

SECOND SEMESTER

CREDITS

FIN2230
Personal Finance
3
ACC1111
Financial Accounting I
3
HUM2225
Introduction To Ethics
3
ENG2205
Writing Through Literature
3
Business Elective
3

THIRD SEMESTER

CREDITS

ACC1112
Financial Accounting II
3
FIN2200
Introduction to Financial Services
3
MAT2212
Quantitative Methods
3
ECO2200
Principles of Economics
3
MKT2220
Principles of Marketing
3

FOURTH SEMESTER

CREDITS

BUS2231
Business Law I
3
MAT2215
Statistics I
3
ECO2201
Applied Macroeconomics
3
IBS2201
International Business
3
Free Elective
3

FIFTH SEMESTER

CREDITS

FIN3302
Corporate Finance
3
CIS2201
Advanced Spreadsheets
3
ENG3316
The Confident Writer
3
FIN4400
Tax Planning
3
Science Elective
3

SIXTH SEMESTER

CREDITS

FIN3315
Investment Planning
3
FIN4416
Advanced Corporate Finance
3
ENG2215
Public Speaking
3
Humanities Elective
3
Free Elective
3

SEVENTH SEMESTER

CREDITS

Financial Services Electives
6
Social Science Elective
3
Liberal Arts Elective
3
Free Elective
3

EIGHTH SEMESTER

CREDITS

FIN4425
Contemporary Issues in Financial Services
3
Free Electives
9
Business Elective*
3

120 SEMESTER CREDITS REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION

Business Electives must be selected from the Larry L. Luing School of Business courses.

*Must be at the 3000 or 4000 level and must be selected from the Larry L. Luing School of Business courses.

Students planning to take the CFP Examination must take the following courses:

CREDITS

FIN2230
Personal Finance
3
FIN3310
Insurance Planning
3
FIN3315
Investment Planning
3
FIN4400
Tax Planning
3
FIN4411
Retirement and Estate Planning
3
FIN4420
Comprehensive Financial Planning
3
NOTE: 12 credits of Liberal Arts Electives must be at the 3000/4000 level. 6 credits of Financial Services Electives must be at the 3000/4000 level.

Other Financial Services electives:

CREDITS

FIN3319
Money and Banking .
3
ECO4401
International Economics
3
FIN4421
Financial Statement Analysis
3
Berkeley College’s B.B.A., Financial Services program is a registered education program with the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards, Inc. In order to be eligible to sit for the CFP Examination, students must take specific courses (as outlined in the sample program sequence available at https://berkeleycollege.edu/academics/undergraduate-degrees/financial-services/index.html) and complete this BBA degree program. Students do not automatically become Certified Financial Planners or Registered Investment Advisors, and this program is not specifically intended to fulfill all the requirements for certification or registration for such positions. Generally, candidates for such certification or registration may need to complete a combination of specified educational and/or experience requirements, demonstrate good moral character (which may include an absence of criminal convictions), and pass a licensing examination. Applicants for whom such requirements may be matters of concern are strongly advised to contact an Admissions Associate prior to enrolling in a financial services program.


Under certain circumstances the need to take developmental College Skills courses may lengthen the time required to complete the student’s program, and may result in increased costs to a student.

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