Students majoring in Economics with a concentration in Asset Management have the unique opportunity to learn economic principles while maintaining a special focus on its financial aspects. Firms nowadays are embracing analytics methods at various points across the asset- management value chain, producing increased sophistication in distribution, better investment decision making and improvement in middle- and back-office productivity. A combined BA Economics with Asset Management concentration/ MS Business Analytics degree will enhance a student's asset management techniques with data-driven analytical programming skills.
The “4 + 1” Bachelor’s/MS in Business Analytics (MSBA) is a five year program, during which students will spend three years taking courses required for their chosen bachelor’s degree program and in their fourth year, they will complete (along with required undergraduate program courses) 6 credits worth of MSBA coursework. This will satisfy both undergraduate degree requirements and count toward achievement of the MSBA degree. In the fifth year, students will take graduate courses required to complete the MS in Business Analytics Degree. Students interested in this option can find more information regarding program requirements on the University's Combined Programs website.
Program Requirements
Students in this combined degree program must complete the requirements for:
Economics - Asset Management Concentration (B.A.)
Graduate Swing Courses
A combined degree program allows students to complete 6-12 graduate credits ("graduate swing courses") while enrolled as an undergraduate. These courses count for both their bachelor and master’s degrees. Graduate swing courses will count toward undergraduate free electives, unless noted otherwise.
The Graduate Swing Courses for this program:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INFO 574 | Database Systems and Management | 3 |
| INFO 589 | Applied Business Statistics | 3 |
Recommended Roadmap to Degree(s)
This recommended five-year plan is provided as an outline for students to follow in order to complete their degree requirements within five years. This plan is a recommendation and students should only use it in consultation with their academic advisor.
Fifth year courses are taken at the graduate level, after matriculation into the graduate portion of this combined degree program.
| First Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (A) New Student Seminar | 1 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (C2) Literature | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (C1) Writing | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (K1) Social Science – American and European History | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (C3) Communication | 3 | ACCT 201 | 3 |
| ECON 101 | 3 | INFO 173 | 3 |
| ECON 102 | 3 | ECON 203 | 3 |
| MATH 100 (if needed or Free Elective) | 3 | ||
| 16 | 15 | ||
| Second Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| World Language 1 | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (F1) Humanities – Great Works and Their Influences | 3 |
| ECON 207 or 206 | 3 | World Language 2 | 3 |
| ECON 208 | 3 | ECON 317 | 3 |
| ECON 224 | 3 | ECON 324 | 3 |
| INFO 240 | 3 | ECON Major Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Third Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (F2) Humanities – Philosophical and Religious Perspectives | 3 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (K2) Social Science – Global Cultural Perspectives | 3 |
| ECON 370 | 3 | ECON 395 | 3 |
| ECON 390 | 3 | FINC 430 | 3 |
| FINC 322 | 3 | BUGN 320 | 0 |
| FINC 326 | 3 | Concentration Elective | 3 |
| BUGN 310 | 0 | Concentration Elective | 3 |
| 15 | 15 | ||
| Fourth Year | |||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (I) Natural Science Laboratory | 4 | GENERAL EDUCATION: (D) Fine and Performing Arts | 3 |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: (J) Physical Education | 1 | World Cultures | 3 |
| ECON 438 | 3 | Free Elective | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | INFO 574 | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | INFO 589 | 3 |
| 14 | 15 | ||
| Total Credits 120 | |||
| Fourth Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Credits | ||||
| INFO 570 | 3 | ||||
| INFO 584 | 3 | ||||
| 6 | |||||
| Fifth Year | |||||
| Fall | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| INFO 581 | 3 | INFO 582 | 3 | ||
| INFO 583 | 3 | INFO 587 | 3 | ||
| INFO 585 | 3 | INFO 588 | 3 | ||
| 9 | 9 | ||||
| Total Credits 24 | |||||