Business-Administration - Banking-and-Finance

The mission of the Banking and Finance major is to prepare qualified students for various careers in the financial field. This is achieved through a structured curriculum that enables students to analyze and critically assess an entity’s financial conditions and values.

The bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Banking and Finance enables students to demonstrate a wide-range of financial competences and skills. A major in Banking and Finance aims at:

• Ensuring an exceptional and distinctive learning experience.
• Providing an educational environment in which students become skilled in actively pursuing the specific discipline of banking and finance.
• Providing a basic understanding of how to apply key financial concepts and theories.
• Developing financial technical skills.
• Understanding how to integrate among areas of management, economics, accounting and finance.
• Demonstrating the skills necessary to tackle problems within the complex world of international finance and banking.
• Preparing and implementing findings directed at the evaluation of corporate, market, investment and risk management situations.
• Demonstrating business and cultural skills related to the professional workplace in a local and international context.
  

a. Knowledge and Understanding

• Understand the basic and foundational topics relevant to the business environment.
• Describe how finance is integrated with business domains.
• Follow up on contemporary theories for selected aspects of banking and finance.
• Recognize the mechanism of investment procedures, financial assets allocations and financial strategies within a business. Banking & Finance Major
• Provide the basis knowledge related to finance theories and models.
• Provide a foundation in the methods and applications of evaluation in the fields of finance.
• Acquire adequate knowledge in related fields of accounting, management and economics.
• Examine methods of managing funds.
• Differentiate between corporate finance management, investments and financial institutions.

b. Intellectual Skills

• Demonstrate a solid foundation of the concepts and theories of finance.
• Evaluate economic, business and financial information for decision making.
• Evaluate the role of finance for individual organizations and for society as a whole.
• Undertake effective problem-solving and decision-making using appropriate quantitative and qualitative financial techniques.
• Attain good negotiation skills in the field of financial management.
• Build commercial awareness and interests.

c. Practical and Professional Skills

• Conduct research through the creation, extraction and analysis of financial information.
• Apply relevant software and programs in order to better analyze financial data.
• Formulate and implement strategies in financial organizations.
• Apply creative, logical and critical thinking to respond effectively to financial issues and financial crises.
• Analyze how corporations deal with financial problems.

d. General and Transferable Skills

• Communication skills.
• Presentations skills.
• Analyze financial data in an organized form.
• Make effective use of IT tools in the field of finance.
• Work in a team.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Time management skills.
  

The undergraduate curriculum for the degree of Bachelor in Business Administration (Banking and Finance Major) consists of 100 credit hours of course work + ICDL.

Graduates may seek employment in multiple professional settings, since finance professionals are necessary in a wide variety of businesses and organizations.

Hence, our graduates may find careers in payroll, real estate, budget analysis, investor relations, financial reporting and among other areas.

Some career options include:

Banking Professional; Credit Analyst; Personal Financial Advisor; Loans Officer; Financial Analyst; Financial Controller; Risk Analyst; Investments Banker; Security Analyst; Lending Officer; Financial Planner