As a student, you’ll have real-time access to the world’s financial data and state-of-the-art trading systems in our Global Financial Markets Trading Laboratory. The lab includes Bloomberg terminals where you can obtain valuable experiences and insights in applying financial and economic theories to securities and investments. Students can obtain certification in using the Bloomberg terminal which is an essential skill for a new finance professional. Students also have access to Standard & Poors’ FactSet database.

Students have ample opportunities to work closely with Finance faculty on independent or joint research projects. Faculty also supervise student co-op assignments, and students may obtain paid internships as well. Finance students have obtained positions at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, UBS, Accenture, Blackrock, Barclays Bank, Mercedes Benz, UPS, Stryker, and many other financial institutions and corporations in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area.

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As a student, you’ll have real-time access to the world’s financial data and state-of-the-art trading systems in our Global Financial Markets Trading Laboratory, especially when you take Corporate Finance and Securities and Investments courses. The lab allows your professors to give you valuable insights into how the financial and economic theories taught in the classroom apply in real financial markets.

Every student works closely with an assigned faculty advisor, especially if you decide to participate in a co-op or internship program at organizations such as: First Investor Corp, Gucci, Hanabergh & Associates, Merrill Lynch, Nationwide Planning Associates, Team-Baker and WorkplaceDiversity.com. You can also consider studying abroad with our China Immersion Experience and at the American University of Rome.