Financial Services
The financial services curriculum is designed specifically to prepare students for careers in one of the segments of the financial services industry: securities, banking, insurance, real estate finance, and personal financial planning.
It is very common for single firms to own subsidiaries in each of these areas, so it is important for graduates entering these fields to be familiar with all aspects of these important financial sectors. Graduates can look forward to analytical, managerial, or sales careers in the financial services industry. Sales careers include insurance and securities sales. Analytical careers include loan and security analysis and personal financial planning. Managerial careers include management in each of the component industries.
Business Administration, with an Emphasis in Financial Services: 2026-2027 Curriculum
Courses in preparation for the major may not be taken for Credit/No Credit (Cr/NC), and students must earn a minimum grade of C in each course. Students must also meet additional academic progress requirements before being admitted to the upper-division major.
- ACCTG 201: Financial Accounting
- ACCTG 202: Managerial Accounting
- ECON 101: Principles of Economics (Macro)
- ECON 102: Principles of Economics (Micro)
- FIN 240: Legal Environment of Business
- MIS 180: Principles of Information Systems
- RWS 290: Business Writing and Rhetoric
- MATH 120: Calculus for Business Analysis (or an approved calculus course)
- STAT 119: Elementary Statistics for Business (or ECON 201: Statistical Methods)
Students must maintain a minimum 2.0 major GPA, based on all upper-division courses attempted in the major.
- BA 300: Ethical Decision Making in Business (1-unit)
- BA 305: Career and Professional Readiness (1 unit)
- BA 310: Foundations of Business in a Global
Environment (1-unit) - BA 323: Fundamentals of Finance
- BA 350: Management and Organizational Behavior
- BA 360: Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management
- BA 370: Marketing
- FIN 327: Investments
- FIN 331: Real Estate Principles
- FIN 334: Principles of Risk Management and Insurance or FIN 522: Individual Insurance Management
- FIN 433: Theory of Real Property Value or ACCTG 503: Federal Taxation of Individuals
- FIN 589: Personal Financial Planning
- 9-10 Elective units selected from the following:
- ACCTG 326: Intermediate Financial Accounting
- ECON 320: Intermediate Macroeconomics Theory or ECON 422 - Business Cycles (students may not take both courses for this requirement)
- ECON 490: Money and Banking
- FIN 326: Financial Institutions Management
- FIN 335: Financial Modeling
- FIN 336: Principles of Residential Property Management
- FIN 421: Portfolio Management and Security Analysis
- FIN 422: Property-Liability Insurance
- FIN 427: Derivatives and Financial Risk Management
- FIN 431: Real Estate Finance
- FIN 435: Real Estate Investment Analysis
- FIN 436: Residential Property Management Practices and Issues
- FIN 585: Estate Planning Issues and Practice
- FIN 590: Personal Financial Planning Practicum
- MKTG 377: Selling Strategy and Practices (4 units)
Current Students: Degree requirements may vary by catalog year. For requirements specific to your program and catalog year, review your key academic planning resources, including yourdegree evaluation in my.SDSU, theDegree Roadmaps, and theUniversity Catalog.
To stay on track for graduation, students are encouraged to meet with an academic advisor in the Center for Student Success at least once per semester. The Center is located in Lamden Hall 419 and can be reached at [email protected].
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