Financial Services
Prepare for your future success as a financial professional through hands-on experience guided by exceptional faculty.
At A Glance
What You’ll Learn:
- Develop customized financial plans and engage in supervised internships at financial services firms.
- Choose to specialize in a financial services concentration or follow a financial planning track.
What You’ll Do:
- Develop distinctive, real-world experience managing equity and fixed-income portfolios in the student-run Archway Investment Fund.
- Access real-time news and data transferred by live feeds through FactSet and Bloomberg terminals, financial trading systems used by some of the largest financial organizations in the world.
Where You’ll Go:
- Financial planning or wealth management organizations.
- Top graduate programs to advance your career preparation.
Our Students
“I chose Bryant because of the business program. With the great network of alumni, I could see that no matter what major I chose, a good job opportunity would be available.”
Audrey Jones ’24
- Major: Financial Services
- Hometown: Easton, MA
“Bryant has a supportive community, a close-knit environment, and amazing financial and business programs.”
Justin Try ’24
- Major: Financial Services
- Hometown: Somerset, MA
Where Our Students Go
Our alumni land at major corporations and prestigious graduate schools.
- Ameriprise Financial
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Citizens Commercial Banking
- Dell EMC
- Fidelity Investments
- John Hancock Investments
- Liberty Mutual
- Mass Mutual
- Merrill Edge
- Pratt & Whitney
- State Street
- Raytheon
- Boston College
- Bryant University
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Learn Through Experience
Experiential Education
- Shadow and network with accomplished Financial Services and Finance alumni to explore different paths. Industry partnerships enable unique opportunities to obtain professional experience and designations.
- Partnerships include: Certified Financial Analyst Society (CFA designation); Financial Planning Association (FPA); SPARK Institute; University Partnership with Bloomberg; and University Partnership with Rhode Island Bankers’ Association.
- Secure a supervised Financial Services or Finance internship, available in a variety of industries, through our nationally recognized Amica Center for Career Education.
- Attend professional conferences, including the International G.A.M.E. Forum, a conference featuring a global investments competition in which Bryant has placed first, and hear from leading industry experts.
Activities
- Archway Investment Fund
- National Financial Planning Competition
- Present original research at annual Research and Engagement Day
Clubs and Organizations
- Bryant Finance Association
- Smart Women in Finance
- Financial Inclusion Society
- Financial Planning Student Chapters
Service
- Community Activism and Leadership Organization
- Special Olympics
- Community Leadership Rhode Island
- International Sophomore International Experience
- Financial literacy program for Rhode Island high schools
Faculty Spotlight
Mara L. Derderian '93, CFP
- Certified Financial Planner
- Educating Bryant students since 2009
- Former VP at HSBC Bank and Citi Private Bank
- Board Member of the Financial Planning Association of RI