From medicine to media, retail to transportation, and from Wall Street to Main Street, there’s one thing every size, shape, and form of business has in common: finance.

Finance is the lifeblood of business and without it, no business can survive. That’s why the raising, allocation, and management of financial resources for maximum advantage is paramount. And it’s why businesses and financial institutions need people who understand the ins and outs of finance.

The Financial Management Major at Franklin University teaches you how to analyze an organization’s financial performance and ensure good financial health. You’ll acquire in-demand knowledge and skills in such critical areas as financial analysis and forecasting, portfolio management, cash management, international finance, and financial risk management.

Sharpen your skills for a variety of in-demand career opportunities

Our broad, interdisciplinary program prepares you for a variety of career opportunities from business financial management to international finance to banking and investment management. And with related job openings projected to increase 40% through 2020, a rate that's nearly triple the national average,¹ the potential payoff couldn’t be more attractive.

Our curriculum will teach you how firms raise funds, make portfolio decisions and projections, and accept and manage risk in domestic and international markets. You’ll also grapple with today’s biggest ethical issues through coursework and peer discussion, sharpening your future ability to manage conflicts of interest with forethought and integrity.

Acquire hands-on experience through case studies and simulations

With Franklin’s Financial Management Major, you’ll learn important fundamentals while also acquiring significant and relevant exposure to real-world experience. For example, you’ll perform capital budgeting and capital structure analyses on real companies such as Target and California Pizza Kitchen.

In your capstone assignment, you’ll collaborate with students from other business majors in a simulated business environment. In your role as a financial management consultant, you’ll conduct ratio analysis, complete financial statement pro forma projections, and assess capital structure. These projects help you put financial management in the context of overall corporate strategy, while preparing you to work the way business really works, in cross functional teams.

Expand your learning with in-depth elective studies

At Franklin, you can enrich your depth of knowledge even more with elective areas that compliment your chosen career path, such as accounting and financial planning. And because experienced financial professionals teach our curriculum-driven program, you’ll learn from and through them, benefitting from their workplace successes and mistakes.

Franklin’s Financial Management Major is accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE), the leader in outcomes-based accreditation in business, so you know you’re earning a respected degree with value in the workplace.

Earn your degree from a university built for busy adults

Earn your degree on your terms by taking classes 100% online or pursue available coursework at one of our eleven Midwest locations. Regionally accredited and nonprofit, Franklin was built from the ground-up to satisfy the needs of adult learners. A seamless transfer process and personal academic advisors help ease your transition into becoming a student, while our flexible course schedules help to balance your education with work, family, and life. Get started on your future today!

¹Source information provided by Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI)

Source information provided by Economic Modeling Specialists International (EMSI)