Degrees Offered

  • Majors
  • Applied Business Analytics, BS 100% online
  • Economics Research and Data Analysis, BA
  • The major in economics research and data analysis provides students of economics with a robust grounding in quantitative methods. Students are exposed to statistical and econometrics methods and every aspect of data literacy from procuring and cleaning data to visualization, regression analysis, and written and oral presentation. The major includes a research practicum wherein students analyze real world data in conjunction with industry professionals. This major prepares students to work in any field that requires quantitative and research skills.

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  • Finance, 100% Online BS
  • Finance, BS
  • Finance deals with the raising, analyzing, and investing cash and financial assets while managing a degree of risk to maximize firm value. Students majoring in finance develop critical and analytical skills to evaluate financial markets and institutions. The degree in finance offers three specialized tracks: FinTech, Risk Management and Commercial Bank Management. Our degree provides a solid foundation and tools for a successful career in the financial sector.

      1. The FinTech track
        The FinTech track aims to prepare students for a wide range of positions including quantitative analyst, financial engineer, and data scientist. The major places a strong emphasis on financial analytics and software application. It is designed to attract students who wish to develop their skills for quantitative applications in financial, economic and consulting industries. The program features three elective courses: financial data analytics, machine learning for finance and Text mining for finance. The program will allow students to develop skills in analyzing both structured and unstructured data and build models to address valuation or forecasting questions.

      1. Risk Management track
        The risk management track helps students learn how to minimize and control the exposure of investments to such financial risks as high inflation, volatility in capital markets, recession and bankruptcy. With an introduction to risk diversification and measurement, portfolio theory, statistics, programming finance models in statistical software and Excel skills, students can apply knowledge to trading and risk, interest and inflation rate models and hedging strategies while performing statistical analysis about investments, financial derivatives, fixed income securities and financial institutions.

    1. Commercial Banking Track
      The commercial banking track exposes the student to the structure, operations and risks associated with managing a modern financial institution and offers the tools to analyze and allocate credit.

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  • Finance, BS 100% Online
  • Finance, Credit Analysis & Commercial Banking Track, BS
  • Finance deals with the raising, analyzing, and investing cash and financial assets while managing a degree of risk to maximize firm value. Students majoring in finance develop critical and analytical skills to evaluate financial markets and institutions. The degree in finance offers three specialized tracks: FinTech, Risk Management and Commercial Bank Management. Our degree provides a solid foundation and tools for a successful career in the financial sector.

      1. The FinTech track
        The FinTech track aims to prepare students for a wide range of positions including quantitative analyst, financial engineer, and data scientist. The major places a strong emphasis on financial analytics and software application. It is designed to attract students who wish to develop their skills for quantitative applications in financial, economic and consulting industries. The program features three elective courses: financial data analytics, machine learning for finance and Text mining for finance. The program will allow students to develop skills in analyzing both structured and unstructured data and build models to address valuation or forecasting questions.

      1. Risk Management track
        The risk management track helps students learn how to minimize and control the exposure of investments to such financial risks as high inflation, volatility in capital markets, recession and bankruptcy. With an introduction to risk diversification and measurement, portfolio theory, statistics, programming finance models in statistical software and Excel skills, students can apply knowledge to trading and risk, interest and inflation rate models and hedging strategies while performing statistical analysis about investments, financial derivatives, fixed income securities and financial institutions.

    1. Commercial Banking Track
      The commercial banking track exposes the student to the structure, operations and risks associated with managing a modern financial institution and offers the tools to analyze and allocate credit.

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  • Finance FinTech, BS
  • Finance deals with the raising, analyzing, and investing cash and financial assets while managing a degree of risk to maximize firm value. Students majoring in finance develop critical and analytical skills to evaluate financial markets and institutions. The degree in finance offers three specialized tracks: FinTech, Risk Management and Commercial Bank Management. Our degree provides a solid foundation and tools for a successful career in the financial sector.

    Accelerated Program:

    • 4+1 Finance BS to Master of Business Administration

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  • Finance - Risk Management,BS
  • Finance deals with the raising, analyzing, and investing cash and financial assets while managing a degree of risk to maximize firm value. Students majoring in finance develop critical and analytical skills to evaluate financial markets and institutions. The degree in finance offers three specialized tracks: FinTech, Risk Management and Commercial Bank Management. Our degree provides a solid foundation and tools for a successful career in the financial sector.

      1. The FinTech track
        The FinTech track aims to prepare students for a wide range of positions including quantitative analyst, financial engineer, and data scientist. The major places a strong emphasis on financial analytics and software application. It is designed to attract students who wish to develop their skills for quantitative applications in financial, economic and consulting industries. The program features three elective courses: financial data analytics, machine learning for finance and Text mining for finance. The program will allow students to develop skills in analyzing both structured and unstructured data and build models to address valuation or forecasting questions.

      1. Risk Management track
        The risk management track helps students learn how to minimize and control the exposure of investments to such financial risks as high inflation, volatility in capital markets, recession and bankruptcy. With an introduction to risk diversification and measurement, portfolio theory, statistics, programming finance models in statistical software and Excel skills, students can apply knowledge to trading and risk, interest and inflation rate models and hedging strategies while performing statistical analysis about investments, financial derivatives, fixed income securities and financial institutions.

    1. Commercial Banking Track
      The commercial banking track exposes the student to the structure, operations and risks associated with managing a modern financial institution and offers the tools to analyze and allocate credit.

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  • Financial Planning and Wealth Management, BS
  • In the BS in Financial Planning and Wealth Management program, students will gain an understanding of performing financial planning services while acting as their clients’ fiduciary. The BS in Financial Planning and Wealth Management features a curriculum that is balanced between general education, core business concept and financial planning education, including planning for education spending, planning for retirement spending, investment/wealth management, insurance planning, household tax planning, estate planning and the cutting-edge technology in the financial planning industry. A William Paterson University degree in Financial Planning can prepare you for a career as a financial planner/advisor, wealth manager, insurance consultant, and many other jobs in the financial services industry or for graduate study in the area of Financial Planning. The completion of the degree in Financial Planning and Wealth Management qualifies students to sit for the Certified Financial Planner® exam.

    Accelerated Program:

    • 4+1 Financial Planning BS to Master of Business Administration

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  • Global Business Studies, BS
  • The Global Business Program offers a multidisciplinary approach in business studies including economics, finance, marketing, management, and logistics. Students will analyze the strategies and operations of transnational business organizations and evaluate their effects on business performance. Additionally, students will be able to assess the impact of the global environment (economic, financial, political, regulatory, technological, social and cultural) on individuals, institutions, businesses, economies, and societies.

    Accelerated Program:

    • 4+1 Global Business BS to Master of Business Administration

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  • Minors
  • Economics, Minor
  • A minor in economics strengthens a degree by providing an understanding of micro and macro economic principles. Students are free to pursue electives in fields such as banking, healthcare, and managerial economics to complete the major.

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  • Finance Minor for Non-Finance Majors
  • A minor in Finance provides students with the foundation of financial management which combined with the major course of study should support students to succeed in their chosen careers. The finance minor consists of the corporate finance course requirement and three additional courses from the finance course offerings. The careful selection of the finance elective courses should enable students to have an improved understanding of the financing and investing decision making process as it relates to their major course of study and their career goals.

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  • Minor in Global Business for Non-Majors
  • A minor in Global Business Studies provides business and non-business students with a global perspective in the fields of economics, finance, marketing, management, and logistics. In this minor, students will be exposed to the institutional and regulatory framework of the global economy and acquire essential knowledge and skills that are highly valued by employers in all industries.

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  • Graduate
  • MBA, with a concentration in Finance
  • The MBA concentration in finance is designed to prepare students for key leadership roles in business. Finance professionals work with budgets, corporate mergers and acquisitions, trade markets, derivative securities, and other business disciplines. In the finance concentration, students apply mathematical aptitude to a variety of values in corporate and small business. More info »

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  • Finance and Financial Services - Financial Planning Track, 100% Online (MS)
  • Finance and Financial Services, Finance Track 100% Online (MS)
  • MBA, with a concentration in Finance, 100% Online
  • MBA, with a concentration in Healthcare Economics and Management 100% Online
  • Certificates
  • Cannabis Studies, Undergraduate Certificate
  • The Cannabis Studies undergraduate certificate program provides the multidisciplinary knowledge addressing clinical, economic, public health, chemical, and legal aspects of cannabis products. This program prepares students for the growing job opportunities in the cannabis industry as well as other related sectors such as healthcare. The program is designed to serve students with any background. During the course of the program, students will have the opportunity to connect to employers in the related sectors.

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  • Data Skills for the New Economy, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Students will learn to clean, organize, and wrangle data using software such as R and python. They will be able to apply economic and statistic models to uncover stories buried in economic and finance data and present economic and finance data in an unbiased and informative way visually and verbally. They will also learn about important ethical issues such as privacy, how data can be manipulated, under-reported and misrepresented and learn how to communicate the limitations of data to try to prevent misuse of data or analytical results.

    While the courses in the certificate can be applied to any business and economics degree programs, this certificate adds value to any major in the humanities, social science, and health science as well. It can be taken by students in any major who have completed a math course equivalent to Business Math or Pre-Calculus. Adult learners can also use this certificate to prepare for career change and advancement.

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  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Undergraduate Certificate
  • The Certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is an academic credential designed to enhance professional qualifications. The goals for the certificate are compatible with the William Paterson University undergraduate core curriculum that serves as the cornerstone of the university’s mission. The program is designed to attract individuals in the business, education, health and other social service areas with an interest in and need for additional knowledge and skills around the concept culture, cultural identity and diversity, equity, inclusion, intercultural understanding, multiculturalism and difference, and the cultural aspects of globalization.

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  • Human Resources Management, 100% Online, Undergraduate Certificate
  • International Risk Management, 100% Online, Graduate Certificate
  • Logistics for the Global Economy, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Logistics for the Global Economy is an advanced certificate designed for students in Economics or any of the business majors who wish to distinguish themselves with a specialization in global economics and logistics. Students completing this certificate will understand the global economic environment in which a firm exists as well as the institutions and regulations that affect businesses. Students will examine the changes in technology that affect businesses in the global environment and develop an understanding of the important role of supply chain management in today’s business environment.

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