BS Finance
Freshman and Sophomore Year
Effective Fall 2015
Prerequisite Courses - All courses must be
Strongly encouraged to
take before applying.
completed before the application deadline.
ACC 200 (FWSp)
3.0
Principles of Accounting
03/09/2015
Undergraduate Programs Office
460 TNRB, Provo, UT 84602
Phone (801)422-4285
msm_advisement@byu.edu
msm.byu.edu/
BUS M 241 (FWSpSu)
IS 110 (FWSp)
3.0
Marketing Management
Spreadsheets and
1.0
Business Analysis
Complete before IS 201
GE: Quantitative Reasoning
FIN 201 (FWSp)
3.0
ECON 110 (FWSpSu)
Principles of Finance
Economic Principles
and Problems
BusM 201 via Independent Study
is not accepted by Finance major
GE: Social Science
3.0
MATH 118 (FWSpSu)
Finite Mathematics
3.0
GE: Quantitative Reasoning or
Languages of Learning
End of Sophomore Year
Apply
msm.byu.edu/apply
Fall Admit Application Deadline:
Last business day of June at 4:30pm MT
Application Criteria
The admissions committee considers the following ...
• Prerequisite GPA •
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• Minimum 3.0 GPA in the prerequisite courses
• Prerequisite courses must be COMPLETED BEFORE the application deadline
• Transferred prerequisite courses are discounted .3 for this calculation (e.g. A to A-)
• Repeated prerequisites are discounted .3 (No prereq can be repeated more than once)
Overall GPA - Including transfer credit
BYU GPA - Transfer students must complete one semester at BYU before applying
Essay - Write a 500-word essay as part of your application
Resume - Upload a current, polished resume
This is a limited enrollment program. Entry is competitive. Not every student meeting the
minimum criteria is guaranteed acceptance into the undergraduate program.
BS Finance
Requirements
Sophomore Year
Required Courses- Take before or after admittance into program.
MCOM 320*
(FWSpSu) 3.0
Communication in
Organizational
Settings
ACC 241
(FWSpSu)
(FWSpSu)
Intro. to Management
Information Systems
3.0
Prereq: IS 110
GE: Advanced Writing
Business Law
IS 201*
Can take Soph., Jr. or Sr. year
3.0
First Year in Program
(14.0 credit hours)
Strongly recommended BEFORE Junior Core
MATH 116 (FWSpSu) 1.0
STAT 121 (FWSpSu) 3.0
Essentials of Calculus
Principles of Statistics
(pass/fail)
GE: Quantitative or
Languages of Learning
Complete ONE Lecture Series Course:
1.0
BUS M 371R Entrepreneurship Lecture Series
BUS M 380 Executive Lecture Series
Can take Soph.,
Jr. or
year be taken
Can take
Soph.,first
Jr. oryear
Sr. year
Junior
Core
- Sr.
Must
during
in program.
Fall Semester Envelope*
Junior Year
Junior Core - Must be taken during first year in program.
Fall Semester Envelope*
FIN 410 (F)
3.0
Investments
Advanced Financial
Winter Semester Envelope*
Management
FIN 401 (F)
3.0
(16.0 credit hours)
FIN 453 (F)
3.0
Money, Banking and
Business
FIN 320 (F)
0.5
Career Preparation
Winter Semester Envelope*
FIN 411 (W)
3.0
Advanced Investments
ACC 305 (W)
Principles of
Accounting II
3.0
FIN 409 (W)
3.0
Equity, Financial Modeling and
Valuation
Pre-req: FIN 410
If completing the Asset Management
Track, this course must be completed
as a Junior.
FIN 321 (W) 0.5
SeniorMentor
Year Program
Recommended
On-Campus Internships
(FW)
3.0
Corporate Finance Track:
BUS M 494R-01
Real Estate Track:
BUS M 496R-04
I-Bank or Asset Mgmt Track:
FIN 487
Management Integrated Core - Complete after Junior Core. No substitutions allowed.
Senior Year
BusM 361 (FW)
3.0
BusM 390 (FW)
3.0
OrgB 321 (FW)
Management
- No substitutions
allowed.
Intro. to Supply Core* Ethics
for
Organizational
Chain
and (FW)
BUS
M 390
Operations
Ethics for
3.0
Management
Management
ORG B 321 (FW)
Organizational
Effectiveness
3.0
BUS M 387 (FW)
3.0
3.0 Effectiveness
Economics of Strategy
(12.0 credit hours)
BUS M 361 (FW)
3.0
Operations Management
Prereq: MATH 116
Senior Elective Track* - Complete two electives from one track.
(6.0 credit hours)
Consulting
FIN 417
BUS M 498
Corporate Finance
FIN 417
FIN 432
Equity
FIN 409
FIN 415 (1.5 Fall and Winter) ACC 440
Fixed Income
FIN 417
ACC 440
Investment Banking FIN 417
ACC 440
Real Estate
FIN 414
*Courses cannot be transferred
FIN 413
ACC 440
GPA Requirement for graduation: Major GPA 2.25 Overall GPA 2.00
Total Credit Hours 64.0