Finance | Bachelor of Business Administration: Finance (Financial Planning)
This degree helps you prepare for a career helping others make important financial decisions, such as investing, retirement planning, and tax and estate planning. FHSU is the only university in Kansas with a business undergraduate degree program in financial planning that is registered with the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards. If you complete the financial planning concentration, you will meet the education requirements to sit for the CFP Certification Examination.
Program Summary
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education | 34 | |
| Required Courses | ||
| Quantitative Core 2 | 12 | |
| BBA Core | 27 | |
| Program (Major) Core | 33 | |
| Directed Electives | 3 | |
| Open Electives 1 | 11 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
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Open electives are the credit hours required to reach a minimum of 120 total hours and 45 upper division hours. The number listed assumes all courses are completed at FHSU as listed. This number may vary if students transfer courses, or have individual substitutions allowed. Students should speak with their advisor if either situation applies to determine if the number will vary, and to ensure they enroll in a minimum of 45 upper division hours.
Students entering within 1 year of high school graduation will take UNIV 101 Freshman Seminar and may apply that hour in the open elective category.
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3 hours of social and behavioral sciences and 3 hours of math may be applied to the general education requirement. This will leave 17 hours of open electives.
Program Requirements
General Education
All undergraduate degrees require completion of the Kansas Systemwide General Education.
Courses identified with GE on this page may satisfy a general education requirement in addition to the identified degree requirement. Students who apply a degree requirement to satisfy a general education requirement will typically add an equal number of hours to the university elective category. This flexibility may allow you to complete a minor or certificate within the 120 hour degree. Transfer students are especially encouraged to select these courses in completing General Education requirements to maximize the likelihood of completing the degree with 120 credit hours.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education | 34-35 | |
Effective in Fall 2025 the math pathway course identified below is required for this degree.
The General Education Math Pathways course identified for this major is MATH 110 College Algebra . All students pursuing this degree program will be required to complete this course or the corequisite support course. Students who place into a higher level math course may be able to satisfy this requirement; consult with your Academic Advisor for additional information.
Placement measures for MATH 110 College Algebra include:
- Math ACT: 22 or higher OR
- Math SAT: 540 or higher OR
- ALEKS PPL: 46 or higher OR
- Accuplacer QAS: 263 or higher OR
- HS GPA and Course Grade: 3.25 cumulative GPA (unweighted) and B- or higher in Second semester Algebra 2 or Integrated Math 3 OR
- Institutional Measure
Students who do not meet any of the placement measures listed above will need to register for the corequisite support course: MATH 105 College Algebra with Review.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative Core | ||
| ECON 201 | Principles of Microeconomics GE | 3 |
| ECON 202 | Principles of Macroeconomics GE | 3 |
| MATH 110 | College Algebra GE | 3 |
| MATH 250 | Elements of Statistics | 3 |
Students may apply one ECON, and one MATH to the general education requirement and take additional open electives.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Business Core | ||
| ACCT 203 | Principles of Accounting I | 3 |
| ACCT 204 | Principles of Accounting II | 3 |
| GBUS 204 | Business Law I | 3 |
| MGT 301 | Management Principles | 3 |
| MKT 301 | Marketing Principles | 3 |
| FIN 305 | Managerial Finance | 3 |
| BCOM 301 | Strategic Business Communication | 3 |
| MGT 602 | Production and Operations Management | 3 |
| MGT 650 | Business Policy | 3 |
| Total Hours | 27 | |
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Planning Concentration | ||
| FIN 311 | Fundamentals of Investments | 3 |
| FIN 405 | Intermediate Finance | 3 |
| FIN 450 | Personal Financial Planning | 3 |
| FIN 607 | Options and Futures Markets | 3 |
| FIN 611 | Investment Theories and Strategies | 3 |
| FIN 630 | Insurance Planning | 3 |
| FIN 641 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| FIN 670 | Estate Planning | 3 |
| FIN 680 | Retirement and Employee Benefit Planning | 3 |
| ECON 601 | Quantitative Methods | 3 |
| ACCT 402 | Income Tax Procedure | 3 |
| Financial Planning Concentration Directed Electives | 3 | |
| Choose 3 hours from upper division FIN courses | ||
| Total Hours | 36 | |
Degree Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| All bachelor degrees require: | ||
| GPA of 2.0 on FHSU courses & 2.0 on all coursework (Higher program requirements prevail over the 2.0 when set) | ||
| A minimum of 30 hours earned from FHSU with a grade of D, C, B, or A | ||
| Successful completion of an upper division Writing and Information Literacy course (Most majors contain a course designated) | ||
| A minimum of 45 hours of recognized upper division credit | ||
| A minimum of 120 hours of recognized college credit | ||
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | |
| MATH 110 | College Algebra | 3 |
| ENG 101 | English Composition I | 3 |
| COMM 100 | Fundamentals of Oral Communication | 3 |
| SGE050 - Social Behavioral Sciences Discipline Area | 3 | |
| FIN 205 | Principles of Personal Finance | 3 |
| UNIV 101 | Freshman Seminar | 1 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENG 102 | English Composition II | 3 |
| SGE040 - Natural Physical Science Discipline Area | 4 | |
| SGE060 - Arts Humanities Discipline Area | 3 | |
| SGE070 - Institutionally Designated Area: Critical Thinking | 3 | |
| MATH 331 | Calculus Methods | 3 |
| Hours | 16 | |
| Second Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| SGE060 - Arts Humanities Discipline Area | 3 | |
| ECON 202 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 3 |
| MATH 250 | Elements of Statistics | 3 |
| ACCT 203 | Principles of Accounting I | 3 |
| Open Electives | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| ECON 201 | Principles of Microeconomics | 3 |
| ACCT 204 | Principles of Accounting II | 3 |
| FIN 305 | Managerial Finance | 3 |
| GBUS 204 | Business Law I | 3 |
| Open Electives | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Third Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| MGT 301 | Management Principles | 3 |
| FIN 311 | Fundamentals of Investments | 3 |
| FIN 405 | Intermediate Finance | 3 |
| FIN 630 | Insurance Planning | 3 |
| Open Electives | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| BCOM 301 | Strategic Business Communication | 3 |
| MKT 301 | Marketing Principles | 3 |
| FIN 607 | Options and Futures Markets | 3 |
| FIN 611 | Investment Theories and Strategies | 3 |
| FIN 670 | Estate Planning | 3 |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| MGT 602 | Production and Operations Management | 3 |
| ACCT 402 | Income Tax Procedure | 3 |
| FIN 680 | Retirement and Employee Benefit Planning | 3 |
| Directed Electives | 3 | |
| Open Electives | 3 | |
| Hours | 15 | |
| Spring | ||
| MGT 650 | Business Policy | 3 |
| ECON 601 | Quantitative Methods | 3 |
| FIN 450 | Personal Financial Planning | 3 |
| FIN 641 | Financial Markets and Institutions | 3 |
| Open Electives | 1 | |
| Hours | 13 | |
| Total Hours | 120 | |
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