The finance program focuses on investments, international finance, banking, and financial valuation. The program prepares students to enter graduate studies or pursue professional careers in banking, portfolio management, or corporate finance.

Career Opportunities

  • Actuarial analyst
  • Business adviser
  • Business analyst
  • Insurance underwriter
  • Business development manager
  • Investment banker
  • Management consultant
  • Risk manager
  • Stockbroker
  • Financial analyst
  • Credit analyst
  • Financial planner
  • Bank management

What to Expect

Travel/Global Trips

The cross-cultural trip is a core requirement for students. Lee University places a high emphasis on the value of global perspectives, and students can fulfill this requirement via an individually arranged trip, a faculty-led trip, or a semester study abroad program. For more information, please visit our Global Perspectives page.

Club/Social

  • Phi Beta Lambda
  • Delta Mu Delta Honor Society  
  • Phi Eta Sigma  

Awards/Honors

  • Two Hicks Scholars each year  
  • School of Business Award  
  • Accounting Award  
  • Cletus Benton Award (Most outstanding rising senior)  

Service

Service learning is a large component of life at Lee. Students have the opportunity to complete 80 hours of service throughout their time here. This includes individually arranged service projects, as well as course-led service projects (such as Gateway and Benevolence). Please visit our Service Learning page to learn more and check out current service opportunities.

Home/Location

Finance classes are housed in the School of Business.  

Internships/Practicum

  • Business Advisory Council: assists business students with internships and job placements.
  • Internships available with CPA offices, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Olin, Unum, Tennova, and various banks.  
  • Meet the Firms: students are invited to Meet the Firms where we invite local CPA firms and other organizations to come and meet our students. 

Research

Current or recent research projects have involved women in poverty, success on the major field test in the management discipline, developing business plans for global nonprofits, and holistic teaching practices. 

SOB Honors

Reaccredited by ACBSP with no conditions or suggestions for improvements. This is exceptionally rare for a school to be reaccredited with no findings.  

Want a Scholarship?

Lee University offers a wide variety of scholarships for all our schools and programs.

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