Finance Academy
Through the Finance Academy micro-credential, you will design and execute a corporate finance project.
The Finance Academy provides you with soft-skill and technical workshops, as well as a corporate-sponsored project. You will collaborate with executives, analyze business problems and gain experience with managerial data modeling.
- UB School of Management MS Finance students
- You must attend various onboarding activities to participate in a Finance Academy spring project
- Hybrid (some requirements may be fulfilled online)
- Non-credit-bearing (you will not earn university credit)
- Fall semester: Attend workshops, guest speaker presentations and company visits
- Spring semester: Work with your team and a corporate executive to research, analyze and solve a finance-related problem
- Final deliverables include an oral and written presentation and any necessary financial models
- B or better average of your project evaluations performed by a panel of judges
- Critical thinking/problem-solving
- Digital technology
- Leadership
- Oral/written communication
- Professionalism
- Teamwork/collaboration
Categories above are based on the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) key competencies.
