Join a strong finance job market growing in positions and salaries with a bachelor’s degree in finance. Whether you plan to pursue a career related to investing or trading, corporate finance, or simply want to expand your business finance understanding to complement your current program, you’ll master key financial skills within a collaborative, supportive environment.
Why study finance at Clark?
- Join a community of students and scholars in Clark’s School of Business, a business school regularly named by Princeton Review as one of the best in America, and which also is among the less than 5 percent of the world’s business schools to receive AACSB accreditation.
- Gain a strong foundation in basic quantitative skills, moving into more analytical approaches to finance.
- Learn from distinguished faculty who have extensive experience in senior positions at leading investment firms, as well as those who research timely finance topics, including sustainability and climate-risk investing.
- Connect classroom learning with community businesses and organizations through hands-on projects that let you make a real impact on important initiatives.
- Have the chance to be part of the student-run Clark University Investment and Trading Society, one of our most active student clubs.
4 + 1—An advanced degree within reach
The 4+1 Accelerated Master’s provides an opportunity to earn a pathway to a master’s degree — with one year of additional study and available tuition scholarships. Consider the following option for this major:
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Featured Courses
Money and Banking
Analyze money, commercial banking, and central banking with an emphasis on monetary policy implementation by the Federal Reserve System and the resulting economic impact both nationally and internationally.
Capital Markets
Examine long-term financing sources available to investors and learn about the different sources of capital, the investors and borrowers of capital, and how capital markets affect investment decision making.
Corporate Finance
Learn the basic concepts, principles, and analytical techniques of corporate finance, including the time-value of money, valuation of securities, valuation of corporate investments, risk and return, and more.
Clark’s finance curriculum will equip you with a competitive edge in your career. As a finance major, you’ll become well-versed in a variety of areas, including market landscape analysis, due diligence (financial, legal, business), comparative analysis, and more.
You’ll also be exposed to basic management and business functions, including accounting, information systems, and marketing. All the while, you’ll be part of Clark’s liberal arts mission to help students gain the critical thinking and communication skills that are vital to the success of today’s finance professionals.
Curriculum update
Effective fall 2025, Clark offers new majors a B.S. in Finance instead of a B.A. Contact your advisor for details.
Career Communities are industry-focused groups designed to support your professional exploration and narrow down your career interests within specific fields. You’ll connect to opportunities, professionals, and information that will support your career development. The following communities may be of interest:
Business, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship
Government, International Affairs, and Law
School of Management graduates have earned positions as portfolio managers, investment banking analysts, equity and fixed income analysts, financial analysts and associates, and financial advisers at various financial institutions, including:
- State Street Corp.
- Fidelity Investments
- Goldman Sachs
- Ernst and Young
You may also choose to advance your knowledge and career opportunities by enrolling the School of Management’s Master’s in Finance program.
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