The Finance and Real Estate Department at the University of Cincinnati College of Business seeks to contribute to the creation and dissemination of leading-edge knowledge, analysis, and practice in Finance and Real Estate by conducting high-impact original research and by providing rigorous and relevant instruction in undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs.
Our undergraduate finance curriculum, consisting of a major, a minor, and a certificate, is designed to provide students with a core of fundamental skills and modes of analysis (including project evaluation, financial information and decision making, firm valuation, the pricing of equity and fixed-income securities, the pricing and use of derivative securities, and financial spreadsheet modeling) that are critical to any and all careers in finance. (For information on the Real Estate curriculum, click here) In addition to this core, the curriculum also allows students to prepare for a specific career path by providing students the opportunity to gain specialized knowledge in specific areas, including investment management, investment banking, corporate finance, and commercial banking and financial institutions. The Department also provides specialized courses for students in our graduate programs (including MS programs and the full- and part-time MBA Programs) seeking specialized knowledge in financial and real estate applications.
The undergraduate curriculum in real estate, consisting of a major and a minor, is designed to provide students with a core of fundamental skills applied to real state decisions. The real estate program works closely with the UC Real Estate Center to include the students with real estate and related (e.g. banking and insurance) firms to further enhance their working knowledge and to their placement potential. The program also is part of a consortium of colleges that meets annually in Chicago to acquaint the students with real estate in a metropolitan setting and to meet employers there.
In addition to rigorous coursework, the department also supports hands-on experiential components, where students learn by doing. For example, with our Johnson Investment Counsel Fund, undergraduate finance students have the opportunity to manage an investment portfolio under professional and faculty supervision. Both graduate and undergraduate students also participate in real estate field projects, in which student teams develop solutions for valuation, investment, and development challenges. Graduate students also have opportunities to compete against students from other local or national business schools in finance-focused competitions such as the Key Bank Minority Case Competition and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup.
Our goal is to prepare undergraduate students to be able to contribute effectively throughout their finance careers, either during co-ops, internships, or upon graduation.
In terms of research, our faculty members conduct original research in a wide variety of areas, including corporate finance, investment management, asset pricing, financial intermediation, and real estate, and are widely published in the top-tier peer-reviewed finance and real estate journals. Because our faculty is actively engaged in creating new knowledge through scholarly research, all of our students benefit from a curriculum that reflects current advances in the field and the insights of faculty who think deeply about the important issues in Finance and Real Estate.
