Finance (BSBA)

  • Major
  • 4-year, On Campus

What You’ll learn

Finance majors can specialize in one of three tracks, each uniquely designed with career paths in mind:

  • Investment and Financial Analysis: Emphasizes security analysis and management and is designed with the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in mind.
  • Risk Management: Recognizes the growing awareness across all businesses for the need to manage a variety of risk with financially sophisticated techniques and helps prepare students for the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation.
  • Managerial Finance: Considered to be the traditional finance major, this track is the most general, with an emphasis on corporate finance.

Why Study Finance at La Salle?

To prepare students to work and thrive in today’s dynamic global financial environment, our program emphasizes the linking of theory to practice. In the classroom, we develop core competencies in areas such as analytical skills, decision-making frameworks, understanding risk, and how financial markets work. We also teach our students to become proficient in the use of financial tools, including time value analysis, financial forecasting, capital budgeting, asset management, and risk evaluation. And La Salle’s curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and is well suited to preparing students to sit for the chartered financial analyst (CFA) examinations.

Curriculum, Courses and Requirements

Meet the Faculty

Career Opportunities

Careers our finance majors pursue include:

  • Financial Analyst
  • Financial Advisor
  • Lending Officer
  • Investment Banker
  • Insurance Underwriter
  • Mortgage Underwriter
  • Risk Management Consultant
  • Budget Analyst
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Stockbroker

Recent employers to hire our graduates include:

  • Vanguard
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Barclays
  • Chubb
  • USLI
  • MetLife Investment Management
  • Janney Montgomery Scott
  • Zurich
  • JP Morgan
  • Comcast
  • GE

Accreditation

La Salle School of Business is accredited by the AACSB, which represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide.

AACSB Accredited

CFA Recognition

La Salle’s finance program has been accepted into the CFA Institute’s University Affiliation Program.

Brendan Young, DSW, LSW, ‘12, director of La Salle's MSW program and an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work.

Two La Salle professors, from the Social Work and Communication Departments, have been awarded $3,000 Lasallian Research grants to support their respective projects.  

Xuleyka Ogiata, '25, a graduate of La Salle's Master of Social Work program

Xuleyka Ogiata, MSW ‘25, wanted a sense of community in her master’s program, especially after her time as an undergraduate was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. She got what she hoped for as a La Salle Master of Social Work (MSW) student, as well as so much more.  

Riley Purdy, '25, outside Frances M. Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph's University.

Riley Purdy, ‘25, an art history major and religion minor graduate, was chosen to present original research at the fourth annual Philadelphia-Area Undergraduate Art History Research Symposium in March. Her talk was inspired by work done during a La Salle art history course.