Finance
Prepare for your future success in a financial career guided by exceptional faculty who embrace experiential learning.
At A Glance
What You’ll Learn:
- Analytical and valuation concepts emphasized by financial professionals.
- The ability to access and utilize financial data to drive decisions.
- Specialize your finance coursework in banking, corporate finance, international finance, or investments.
What You'll Do:
- Develop distinctive, real-world experience in banking, corporate finance, or investment settings.
- Manage equity and fixed-income portfolios in the student-run Archway Investment Fund with more than $3 million in assets.
- Earn a Bloomberg Market Concepts Certificate and prepare for Series 7, CFA Level 1, and Risk Management Association Credit Essentials exams.
Where You'll Go:
- Major corporations, banks, or investment organizations.
- Top graduate programs to advance your career preparation.
Our Students
“We’re top-ranked in business, top-ranked in athletics, and in the top 1% for ROI, but we’re also so much more. Sometimes people call Bryant a hidden gem. I think it should be recognized as the gold standard for higher education.”
Jake Williams ’23
- Major: Finance, Information Systems
- Hometown: Peabody, MA
“My high school accounting teacher ... is a Bryant alum and would tell us about finance as a career and all the options it would give us. He encouraged me to go to Bryant and helped me through the process.”
Andrea Cortes ’26
- Major: Finance
- Hometown: North Providence, RI
“I wanted a close-knit community that resembled my upbringing in Lebanon — a school that would support me in becoming a trailblazer in my profession. I chose Bryant because it felt like home from the day I stepped onto campus.”
Odette Mansour ’24
- Majors: Finance, Economics
- Hometown: Yanouh, Lebanon
Where Our Students Go
Bryant's Finance graduates are making a difference in business, nonprofit, and government organizations and bringing their globally-influenced philosophy to prestigious graduate programs.
- Aetna
- Apple
- Blackrock
- Cambridge Associates
- Citizens Bank
- Dell EMC
- Deloitte
- EY
- Fidelity Investments
- Goldman Sachs
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Merrill Lynch
- PwC
- Raytheon
- Textron
- Boston College
- Bryant University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Wake Forest School of Law
Bulldogs in Action
Experiential Education
- Shadow and network with accomplished Finance alumni, such as the annual Walk on Wall Street.
- Industry partnerships enable unique opportunities to obtain professional experience and designations.
- Partnerships include: Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP designation); Certified Financial Analyst Society (CFA designation); Charted Alternative Investment Association (CAIA designation); SPARK Institute; University Partnership with Rhode Island Bankers’ Association; and University Partnership with Bloomberg.
- Secure a supervised Finance internship, available in a variety of industries, through our nationally recognized Amica Center for Career Education.
- Attend professional conferences, including the International G.A.M.E. Forum, a conference featuring a global investments competition in which Bryant has placed first, and hear from leading industrial experts.
Activities
- Archway Investment Fund
- National Financial Plan Competition
- Present original research at annual Research and Engagement Day
Clubs and Organizations
- Bryant Finance Association
- Smart Women in Finance
- Financial Inclusion Society
- Collegiate DECA
- Real Estate Club
- Wealth Management Club
Service
- Community Activism and Leadership Organization
- Special Olympics
- Community Leadership Rhode Island
- Financial literacy program for Rhode Island high schools