Program: Finance, B.B.A. - Middle Tennessee State University

Apr 04, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Economics and Finance
615-898-5117
Sean Salter, program coordinator
Sean.Salter@mtsu.edu

In addition to meeting the Jennings A. Jones College of Business requirements, a major in Finance consists of 27 semester hours of finance courses and requires a minimum 2.00 GPA. At least 50 percent of the required major hours must be taken in residence at MTSU.

Students pursuing a major in Finance with no concentration may choose to focus their studies in corporate finance, investments, or financial institutions.

The program below includes a required Business Administration minor. An alternate business minor may be chosen, but it may require total hours for graduation to exceed 120.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Finance, B.B.A., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

True Blue Core (TBC)	41 hours
College of Business Core	42 hours*
Major Requirements	27 hours
Auxiliary Courses	6-7 hours*
Business Elective	3 hours
Electives	1-10 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)

True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

MATH 1630 , MATH 1810 , or MATH 1910 (Quant Lit)
ECON 2410 (HSSR and business core course)*
ECON 2420 (HSSR and business core course)*

College of Business Core (42 hours)

All students must complete the College of Business Core which requires 42 hours with a 2.000 GPA.

Major Requirements (27 hours)

FIN 3810 - Investments 3 credit hours
FIN 3110 - Financial Modeling 3 credit hours
FIN 3950 - Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
FIN 4110 - Cases in Finance 3 credit hours
Upper-division FIN electives 12 credit hours
FIN elective 3 credit hours

Auxiliary Courses (6-7 hours)

MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (may be counted in True Blue Core) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (may be counted in True Blue Core) OR
MATH 1910 - Calculus I 4 credit hours (may be counted in True Blue Core)
FIN 4015 - Financial Statement Analysis 3 credit hours

Business Elective (3 hours)

Electives (1-10 hours)

Curriculum: Finance

Freshman

MATH 1630 - College Mathematics for Managerial, Social, and Life Sciences 3 credit hours (Quant Lit) OR
MATH 1810 - Applied Calculus I 3 credit hours (Quant Lit) OR
MATH 1910 - Calculus I 4 credit hours (Quant Lit)
ECON 2410 - Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics 3 credit hours (HSSR) *
ECON 2420 - Principles of Economics, Microeconomics 3 credit hours (HSSR)*
Written Communication 3 credit hours
Information Literacy 3 credit hours
Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 8 credit hours
Electives 4 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Sophomore

ACTG 2110 - Principles of Accounting I 3 credit hours *
ACTG 2120 - Principles of Accounting II 3 credit hours
BIA 2610 - Statistical Methods 3 credit hours *
Creativity and Cultural Expression 6 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 6 credit hours
Electives 6 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Junior

BLAW 3400 - Legal Environment of Business 3 credit hours
BUS 3000 - The Dale Carnegie Course 3 credit hours
INFS 3100 - Principles of Management Information Systems 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MKT 3820 - Principles of Marketing 3 credit hours
FIN 3010 - Principles of Corporate Finance 3 credit hours
FIN 3110 - Financial Modeling 3 credit hours §
FIN 3810 - Investments 3 credit hours §
BIA 3620 - Introduction to Business Analytics 3 credit hours
Business elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Senior

FIN 3950 - Corporate Finance 3 credit hours §
FIN 4015 - Financial Statement Analysis 3 credit hours §
FIN 4110 - Cases in Finance 3 credit hours §
FIN 4780 - Behavioral Economics and Finance 3 credit hours §
FIN elective 3 credit hours §
Upper-division FIN electives 12 credit hours §
BUAD 4980 - Strategic Management 3 credit hours §

Subtotal: 30 Hours

NOTE:

* A 2.25 GPA in these courses is required for admission to the Jones College of Business.

§ Admission required.