Welcome to the Department of Finance!
The Department of Finance has the second largest number of undergraduate majors in the Fox School of Business and the largest number of MBA students selecting this field as an area of concentration.
The Department has 20 full-time faculty members who hold doctorates from many of the top business schools in the United States. Research productivity is very high, and faculty research consistently appears in such highly ranked academic and applied business journals as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Derivatives.
What's New 
- Welcome to Dr. Michael Boldin (Univeristy of Pennsylvania), Dr. Traci Ray (Boston College) and Dr. Yuzhao Zhang (UCLA) .
- The Department was recently ranked fourth in research productivity by Academic Analytics.
- Dr. Jonathan Scott was awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation award for Distinguished Teaching in April, 2008, Dr. Connie Mao was awarded the FMA Outstanding Teacher Award, and Dr. John Soss was awarded the Fox International MBA Faculty of the Year.
- Congratulations to Professor Steve Kamp on guiding the FMA chapter to a Superior Chapter Award for the fourth year in a row and Gold Membership Development for the fifth year in a row. Professor Kamp was also named a Superior Faculty Advisor for the second year in a row.
Our Mission
Our mission is consistent with the School’s mission: to provide a gateway to opportunity and prosperity for all students with the talent and determination to succeed, particularly those of lesser financial means. To ensure that all of our students – undergraduate, masters’ and doctoral – acquire the tools and perspective that provide them with a competitive edge in a global market, we are committed to these themes:
- Target research for the top three journals in finance as well as the leading journals in all the sub-fields of finance.
- Adopt instructional methodologies that will improve students’ learning, without losing focus on the need for a rigorous understanding of the underlying core principles of finance.
- Actively review the curriculum at all levels and modify as necessary to ensure that students in all programs have the skills to be competitive in their respective job markets.
- Provide the highest quality assistance to and oversight of undergraduate finance and real estate majors, masters’ finance majors, and PhD students in finance.
- Forge links with the primary employers of our undergraduate and masters’ students to provide curriculum feedback and to enhance the opportunities for employment and applied research in the major industries of the greater Philadelphia area.