Welcome to the University Wisconsin La Crosse Finance Page.  Here you will find information on majors, classes, as well as Professors in the Department.  If you have questions or concerns related to the field feel free to contact any one of the department Instructors.

The Finance Department at UW-La Crosse is unique in many ways. The program provides a foundation in the primary financial areas: corporate, investments, and money and capital markets. The program allows a student flexibility to explore the basic areas in greater detail or to branch out in other financial areas such as health care financing, international finance, real estate, or risk and insurance. The department offers a finance major with risk and insurance emphasis for those particularly interested in that area.

The UW-La Crosse program includes a capstone course, usually taken during the senior year, which gives students the opportunity to draw upon all of their training in finance while working on realistic finance problems. In addition to the traditional approach, which relies on lectures from a textbook, the Finance Department includes case studies, current journal articles, and informational services as resource materials. Students also have access to Dow Jones Interactive and Zacks Analyst Watch, databases that contain current and historical stock prices, financial statements, and other information on publicly traded firms. Several courses include activities designed to expand student Internet abilities. Students in investment courses manage simulated million dollar portfolios. Students can take advantage of several internships that provide both college credit and personal experience in the finance area.

In order to expand the flexibility in student programs, courses are imported from other universities. Short-term financial management and commercial bank management were recently taught by distance education. Principles of insurance originates at UW-L and is taught through distance education to students at other campuses.