Program Overview

The business administration program is housed in the School of Management, which is ranked #14 on Fortune's list of the "25 Best Colleges for Earning a Degree." The curriculum provides students with a strong liberal arts background; a sound foundation in the basic disciplines and functional areas of management; and an awareness of the legal, environmental and societal factors which affect decision making in organizations.

This concentration combines financial theory with a solid grounding in quantitative methods. Recent innovations in financial markets have led to an increased demand for analytically skilled professionals. Understanding pricing models in derivatives and other exotic securities requires knowledge in finance and also statistics, stochastic processes and differential equations.

Coursework

Quantitative finance has more required courses than the other concentrations. However, some of the courses can count to fulfill upper-level liberal arts requirements. The School of Management only considers students with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher for the quantitative finance concentration, as well as a grade of B or higher in FIN 311.

The current schedule for these courses is available in the Schedule of Classes on the BU Brain. Descriptions of courses are listed in the Binghamton University Bulletin and course descriptions for the upcoming semester are available on the BU Brain.

After You Graduate

Many of students find themselves with several offers after graduation (the job placement and starting salary for School of Management graduates is above the national average). It's also common for business administration students to pursue the five-year program, which allows them to earn their master of business administration (MBA) from Binghamton with just one additional year of study.

Top employers continuously recruit our students for internships and full-time positions. We are the number-one provider of new hires for PwC and EY in New York City. In addition to PwC, EY, KPMG and Deloitte, our students are sought out by companies including American Express, Brevet Capital, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, IBM, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Citi, RSM US, Grant Thornton, ZenithOptimedia, Bank of America and Protiviti.