STUDY IN USA

The study of professional financial processes and markets are inroads to virtually any career field possible. For international students looking for both a challenging and rewarding career, studying finance may just be the perfect industry. In your decision of how to invest in yourself—and your career—the kind of options and doors a career in finance provides might just be the investment into a rewarding future. 

Do you think a career in finance might be for you? Consider the main areas of the financial professional field. The financial system is the means through which value is assigned to and invested in each part of the world's economy. Finance is about how people and organizations do or should create and manage wealth through managing expenses and developing investment portfolios. The financial sector provides tools for making decisions about how and where money, or liquid assets, should be spent or invested and for how long. Groups with more capital than they can use for themselves spend a lot of time and effort making decisions about where the best place to invest it, in an attempt to get the most ideal, or highest return on their investment in a given amount of time. The competition between organizations and individuals to attract these investments motivates them to invent better products & systems and create better jobs for more people. 

Pursuit of a finance degree will often include required courses like economics, statistics, accounting, business, and other math courses. You'll study the way that liquid assets are developed and managed. International students may also gain additional advantages by pairing a concentration in finance with a concentration in language or regional studies. Following several years of global financial crisis and re-structuring—an issue that is likely to continue to remain central both locally and globally for the foreseeable future—expertise in finance paired with language- or region-specific knowledge are likely to remain valuable. You can use the experiences you gain in the courses you take to help guide you to decisions about what kind of internships and jobs you might be interested in pursuing in the financial sector once you're ready.