Finance and Banking
The mission of the Bachelor degree in Finance and Banking is to provide students with education benchmarking excellence and highest standards in the areas of financial management, banking and insurance, and graduate finance professionals who can compete locally and internationally.
- Provide students with finance theories necessary to achieve high levels of knowledge in financial management, banking and insurance.
- Produce graduates with analytical skills and problem solving abilities required to succeed in graduate schools and the finance industry.
- Integrate applied learning to improve students’ expertise and abilities required for making sound financial decisions.
- Reinforce ethical values, responsibility, as well as personal and academic integrity.
- Define finance concepts and theories.
- Describe the operations of financial markets and institutions.
- Explain the legal financial environment.
- Understand quantitative techniques applicable for finance.
- Analyze and interpret financial data to make financial decisions and recommend solutions.
- Visualize the interaction between the four disciplines of management science.
- Demonstrate critical evaluation of financial issues.
- Assess the suitability of methods used to investigate financial issues.
- Apply quantitative techniques to make financial decisions.
- Build financial models needed to measure and manage risk.
- Evaluate business performance through analyzing financial data.
- Use statistical software to analyze and model data.
- Engage effectively in team work.
- Prepare written reports and communicate the results to relevant audience.
- Retrieve relevant primary and secondary information and process them via spreadsheets.
- Adhere to the highest standards of ethical and professional behavior.
- Financial analyst: assesses the business organization’s financial status, evaluates risks and makes recommendations.
- Financial manager: manages the business organization’s financial health and develops long-term financial goals and strategies.
- Loan officer: evaluates loan applications that involve risk-return assessment.
- Broker: executes the clients’ orders to purchase or sell specific financial securities.
- Fund administrator/ manager: manages investment portfolios.
- Insurance underwriter: decides whether to grant a policy to a potential client.
- Insurance claims manager: deals with the claimant when claim is made on a policy and assesses its validity.
Major requirements (57 credit hours)
A. Compulsory courses: 51 credit hours which include the following courses:
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Course No. |
Course Title |
Prerequisite(s) |
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Principles of Financial Management 2 |
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Principles of Insurance |
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Financial and Banking Legislations |
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Corporate Finance |
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Corporate Financial Analysis |
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Management of Commercial Bank |
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Financial Markets and Institutions |
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Financial Modeling |
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Behavioral Finance |
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Investment Management |
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International Financial Management |
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Seminar in Finance and Banking |
ECON235, 4th academic year level, Department’s Approval |
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Principles of Management |
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Introduction to Management Information Systems |
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Financial Accounting 2 |
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Managerial Accounting for Finance students |
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Principles of Macroeconomics |
B. Elective courses: 6 credit hours chosen from Finance courses.
Student must successfully complete 120 credit hours distributed as follows:
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Requirements |
Credit Hours |
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University Requirements |
19-20 |
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Faculty Requirements |
27-30 |
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Major Requirements |
57 |
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Elective Courses |
13-17 |
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Total |
120 |
