Bachelor of Science - Finance-Risk Management

William Paterson University

Finance deals with the raising, analyzing, and investing cash and financial assets while managing a degree of risk to maximize firm value. Students majoring in finance develop critical and analytical skills to evaluate financial markets and institutions. The degree in finance offers three specialized tracks: FinTech, Risk Management and Commercial Bank Management. Our degree provides a solid foundation and tools for a successful career in the financial sector.

Risk Management track

The risk management track helps students learn how to minimize and control the exposure of investments to such financial risks as high inflation, volatility in capital markets, recession and bankruptcy. With an introduction to risk diversification and measurement, portfolio theory, statistics, programming finance models in statistical software and Excel skills, students can apply knowledge to trading and risk, interest and inflation rate models and hedging strategies while performing statistical analysis about investments, financial derivatives, fixed income securities and financial institutions.