FinTech is the integration of finance, computer science and computation modeling, and data analytics to solve very complex quantitative finance problems – creating efficiencies and streamlining financial processes. The finance industry has rapidly evolved in embracing FinTech-Quantitative Finance skill sets.

The FinTech and Big Data Analytics Major (FBDA) is designed to meet an increasing need in the financial industry for personnel who have both in-depth knowledge of finance and advanced analytical and computational skills. It contains a much more rigorous curriculum in math, statistics, and computer science in addition to the typical finance courses, and concludes with a capstone finance class that applies these technical and innovative skills to address real-world financial problems.

Our graduates have gone on to work for firms such as Accenture, Amazon, Bank of America, Caerus Commodities, Capital One, Citi, Clarabridge, Compass One Healthcare, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, EDF, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Geico, KBR, KPMG, L’Oréal, Microsoft, Northrup Grumman, SEI, Tios Capital, Tradeweb, and Wells Fargo, among many more!

Students in the FinTech option will typically find an externship the summer after their sophomore year, and an internship after their junior year. In many instances, the junior year internship will lead to a full-time placement.

Current students have been placed in a vast array of companies for their internships encompassing investment banking, consulting, energy and commodity trading, government, investments, financial planning, and corporations.

See what graduates of the Fintech and Big Data Analytics Major are up to!