Finance
Finance is concerned with securing, managing and investing money.
When you study finance, you'll focus on banking procedures, bank accounts, loan, interest credit, trusts, investments, accounting procedures, budget and financing, and security.
Business and economics professors will challenge you to become an experienced and successful professional. To help you meet this challenge, we will work diligently to teach you crucial skills such as writing, research, analysis and application of theory.
Because they're so well prepared, our students go on to employment at leading financial firms, such as JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, PNC Bank and Wells Fargo.
We offer a concentration in finance.
For the fourth consecutive year, The Princeton Review has named Roanoke College to its list of the top 36 great schools for business/finance majors.
Students Manage $1 Million Investment Fund

Sample Course Offerings:
- BUAD 142: Personal Finance
- BUAD 242: Investments
- BUAD 342: Corporate Finance
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Our business grads work in finance at great organizations
Shaking up philanthropy
From Roanoke College magazine: Micah Spruill '11 breaks traditional giving by contributing Roanoke College's first gift of cryptocurrency.
Student-Managed Fund Surpasses $1,000,000
The Student-Managed Fund (BUAD 322) has been a course offering at Roanoke College every semester since 2004. The class challenges Roanoke students to use their skills, innovation, and teamwork to responsibly grow a real investment portfolio. The initial $500,000 investment has more than doubled and is now worth more than $1,000,000.