Finance
Emphasizing a finance-focused education, this degree directly targets the financial industry including commercial banks, investment banks, investment companies, and insurance companies.
What can I expect to learn in the Finance program at GW?
This program offers a specialized study of the finance world, providing a finance-focused and interdisciplinary education, targeting industries such as commercial banking, investment banking, money management, and insurance.
What is the Finance community like at GW?
It is a community on the go. When they aren’t headed to New York to meet alumni, students join business clubs, work in high-profile internships or enter their ideas in entrepreneurial competitions.
What can I do in the Finance field?
It’s a steppingstone to a roster of careers, from multinationals to sports organizations to entrepreneurial operations. GW’s own backyard is filled with these employers: investment banks, the government, nonprofits and corporate powerhouses.
Spotlight
- Take Advantage of Next-door Opportunities
Take Advantage of Next-door Opportunities
Our undergraduates intern with the White House, the World Bank and other powerful institutions or with alumni at influential brokerages, corporations and nonprofits.
- Learn from the Best
Learn from the Best
What’s it like to have a former federal bank director or stock trader as your professor? Our students know firsthand.
- Go Behind the Scenes—All Over the World
Go Behind the Scenes—All Over the World
Our students travel to the Olympics to study the economics behind the games, visit corporate boardrooms and pitch ideas to executives.
- Where Academia Meets the Real World
Where Academia Meets the Real World
We combine theory and practice. Many of our professors and guest lecturers are industry insiders with impressive real-world portfolios.