BS in Finance

What is a Finance Degree?

Florida Tech’s Finance degree program prepares students for employment worldwide in companies involved in international trade or finance. Graduates typically work in careers such as commercial banking, financial planning, investment banking, money management, insurance, and real estate.

Finance students at Florida Tech develop critical thinking expertise to evaluate global financial issues related to currency fluctuations, exchange rate risk, multinational investment, and capital budgeting. Finance majors also develop an industry-leading understanding of investments, capital budgeting, risk analysis, and foreign exchange hedging techniques.

Students in a finance degree program take courses in macro and microeconomics, accounting, business law, personal finance, statistics, E-business, international finance, portfolio management, corporate finance, strategic management, and other fundamentals.

Graduates of Florida Tech’s corporate finance degree program work in corporate finance, personal financial planning, financial analysis, and investments, employed in many businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government.

Why Pursue a Finance Degree at Florida Tech?

Innovation, diversity, ethics, and leadership—these tenets are the driving force behind Florida Tech’s educational experience. The BA in Finance gives students the skills they need to begin a career in corporate finance managing decisions in long- and short-term financial planning, capital investment decisions, investment banking, asset management, and other related financial concerns involved in running a company. Designed with input from global business leaders and Florida Tech business partners, the curriculum provides an understanding of global business practices and issues, preparing graduates to succeed in the business world.

Students earning a Bachelor of Finance degree at Florida Tech can also:

• Enjoy a global experience as they interact with a diverse student population, 30% of whom come from more than 100 countries around the world
• Benefit from small class sizes and one-on-one mentorship
• Participate in innovative class projects such as the globally recognized X-Culture Virtual team case project

A Uniquely Qualified Faculty

In addition to their doctoral degrees and extensive teaching experience, the Florida Tech faculty brings wide-ranging experience to the classroom, presenting a curriculum relevant to today’s complex business environment. Active in research that’s published in top journals, Florida Tech professors use their real-world experience and teaching at leading academic institutions to prepare students.

The Nathan M. Bisk College of Business is dedicated to fostering ethical decision-making and educating leaders who make thoughtful decisions, set high standards, and promote corporate accountability. Key initiatives in the corporate finance program include an ethics and leadership breakfast, an intercollegiate ethics competition, a leadership conference, and projects about corporate social responsibility.

Professors encourage innovative thinking and exploration offering many opportunities to work alongside business leaders and entrepreneurs through the Visiting Executive and Entrepreneur Programs, which include lectures, mentoring, and public talks.

Located in the Heart of Florida’s High-Tech Corridor

Florida Tech is the perfect place for a BS in Finance. The 130-acre campus is located on the Space Coast (so named because of the presence of NASA and the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral just north of us), minutes away from the Indian River Lagoon, the most diverse estuary in North America.

The area has the fifth-largest high-tech workforce in the country, with more than 5,000 high-tech corporations and government and military organizations located nearby. This workforce also provides an abundance of internship and employment opportunities.

Florida Tech is just over the causeway from the Atlantic Ocean with its 72 miles of beautiful beaches, and a short trip to the Florida Keys or the Orlando theme parks. We also have a rich campus life that includes a wide range of intramural and collegiate sports, clubs, and social activities.

Build Lasting Professional Relationships through Campus Organizations

Beyond the classroom, corporate finance degree majors develop leadership experience through internships and participation in academic organizations like the Society for Advancement of Management, the International Business Club, student government, and over 100 other student organizations.

Florida Tech’s chapter of Delta Mu Delta, a business honor society, recognizes academic excellence in business students. This organization also focuses on networking and connecting students from around the world to forge the connections that can eventually lead to accounting internships and successful careers in the field.

Graduate and Doctoral Programs

After receiving their bachelor of finance degree, many graduates continue their education at Florida Tech to receive an MBA with a concentration in Finance. This advanced education of high-level knowledge may be completed in two years or less and provides a range of skills to meet the challenges of today’s complete global business environment. The program combines academic principles with practical, real-world applications to result in a solid business foundation.

It All Started With 37 Cents

Florida Tech was founded in 1958 as "Brevard Engineering College." It all started as an idea in the mind of Jerome P. Keuper, a visionary physicist working at Cape Canaveral.

As university lore would have it, Keuper expressed his desire to create a scientific and technological university to a friend over drinks at a local pub. Overhearing the conversation, a fellow patron pushed 37 cents in change across the bar and said, “There’s your first donation, Jerry. Now, go and build that college.”

So, Keuper did. And what started with 37 cents as a night school for the early “missilemen” of the U.S. space program is now a comprehensive national research university recognized worldwide for excellence in preparing students for careers of the future.

Core Values

• Research for the Benefit of All Humankind
• Education for a Lifetime of Success
• Global Citizenship for a Better World

Mission Statement

Florida Institute of Technology’s mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within their communities. The university also seeks to expand knowledge through basic and applied research and to serve the diverse economic, cultural, and societal needs of our local, state, national and international constituencies.

In support of this mission, we are committed to:

• Promoting student development by fostering and sustaining a productive institutional culture of assessment that leads to the continuous improvement of academic and administrative programs
• Developing an organizational culture that values and encourages intellectual curiosity, a sense of belonging and shared purpose among faculty, students, and staff, and the pursuit of excellence in all endeavors
• Recruiting and developing excellent faculty to become leaders in their respective fields and internationally recognized scholars
• Achieving recognition as an effective, innovative, technology-focused educational and research institution
• Recruiting and retaining an excellent, highly select, and culturally diverse student body
• Continually improving the quality of campus life for all members of the university community
• Providing personal and career growth opportunities for both traditional and nontraditional students and members of the faculty and staff
• Securing and maintaining professional accreditation for all appropriate programs

We Are Florida Tech

What we are is a private, coeducational, residential, research-intensive, doctoral-granting university located in Melbourne on Florida’s sunny “Space Coast.” But who we are is so much more. We are a community of researchers, scholars, and learners hailing from all around the world. We are engineers, aviators, innovators, leaders, educators, athletes, and astronauts. We have the brains of rocket scientists and the hearts of Panthers. We are Florida Tech.

We Are Relentless

Florida Tech is a university of leaders and learners—a diverse community of students, staff, faculty, and alumni who are united in the relentless pursuit of greatness.

We Are International

Students from more than 90 countries worldwide choose to live and learn at Florida Tech, making us a truly global university. When we say #YouAreWelcomeHere, we mean it.

We Create The Future

One of the primary tenets of Florida Tech’s mission is advancing science and technology for the benefit of Earth and all of its inhabitants. So, that’s what we do.

We Have Panther Pride

You may feel it the first time you visit the campus, the day you graduate, or at some point in between. But when you do, you’ll see that Panther Pride is more than school spirit. It’s a family.

We Make Connections

Florida Tech is proud to be part of the Brevard County community and welcomes its neighbors to explore the many personal, professional, corporate, and cultural opportunities we have to offer.

We Are STEM

There's a reason Florida Tech is known as Florida's STEM University™. To put it simply: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math are in our DNA. This makes STEM a driving force behind who we are, what we do, and why we exist.