Online Finance Degree Completion Programs

ODU identifies a completion route for students bringing previous credits to its finance BSBA in Financial Management. The curriculum focuses on how organizations allocate capital, manage financial risk and evaluate investments, with portfolio and international finance study adding depth. The published 120-credit total and minimum 30 credits at ODU establish useful starting boundaries for a transcript discussion. This is a focused finance option for someone whose earlier general education or business coursework needs a clear destination.

Before you apply: Admission includes university and Strome College of Business requirements. Accelerated online courses can still have scheduled deadlines or exams that need space in your work calendar.

SNHU offers a finance major with an optional Financial Planning concentration, giving returning students a reason to compare more than the transfer ceiling. Corporate finance and a Finance Capstone sit alongside study of investments and financial decisions. The planning option adds topics such as insurance, taxation and estate planning. If your earlier credits include accounting, economics or statistics, ask how they support the selected finance plan and whether the concentration changes the courses still needed.

Before you apply: Choose the concentration before requesting a completion schedule. Academic coursework in financial planning should be evaluated separately from any professional credential you may later pursue.

UMGC’s finance curriculum brings investments and valuation together with data analytics, visualization and financial technology. That combination is worth examining if you have business credits but want the remaining coursework to engage with how financial information is analyzed and presented. Money and banking and international finance widen the subject coverage beyond a single corporate setting. Use the course list to identify which foundational business requirements your transcript already covers before choosing advanced finance electives.

Before you apply: Request a degree audit that separates business core, finance major and general education requirements. Some catalog categories can overlap, so adding their headline totals may overstate the degree size.

CSU Global makes the final direction of the finance degree an early planning decision. Its curriculum develops financial modeling, statement analysis and quantitative business skills, with corporate finance and financial planning leading to different capstone work. A returning student can use that distinction to compare the relevance of past accounting or finance courses with the work they want to do next. Monthly starts and eight-week online courses then provide the calendar around that academic choice.

Before you apply: Confirm which finance path and capstone the evaluation assumes. The 90-credit overall transfer ceiling and 64-credit community-college limit remain separate rules.

TESU provides a particularly useful course-content check for returning finance students. Its finance area can include security analysis, portfolio management, international finance and financial institutions, while the school explicitly excludes consumer finance, personal finance and personal investments from that area. If your transcript mixes professional business courses with personal money-management classes, this distinction matters. The BSBA structure also lets you examine the remaining professional business core alongside the 18-credit finance area instead of relying on a single accepted-credit total.

Before you apply: Ask the evaluator where any excluded personal-finance course can fit elsewhere in the degree. Acceptance as elective credit would still be different from satisfying the finance area.

Purdue Global lets you distinguish corporate finance from other interests before finishing the degree. FinTech, real estate and wealth management offer different applications of the finance core. If you already have economics or accounting credits, ask how those courses fit the concentration you choose and how the quarter-credit system affects your remaining plan.

Before you apply: Include the final capstone and concentration requirements when comparing the credit evaluation with your intended career direction.

Penn State’s finance entrance requirements give you a concrete checklist for returning to college. Accounting, economics, writing and mathematics come before the advanced finance plan. Later courses cover investments, statements and international decisions. Review those entrance equivalents first, especially if your earlier business coursework came from more than one institution.

Before you apply: Direct entry and applicants with substantial transfer credit can require an additional dean’s review. Confirm the appropriate admission route.

FIU emphasizes the decisions behind investments and business funding. Securities valuation, risk management and capital budgeting give earlier accounting or economics credits a focused destination. The online degree also assigns undergraduate students a success coach. Before choosing courses, ask how your transfer work fits the business prerequisites and the later finance requirements.

Before you apply: A success coach supports planning, while the formal credit evaluation determines which degree requirements your previous classes satisfy.

Park’s Corporate Financial Management BSBA connects company decisions with banking, investments and international markets. That breadth can help if your earlier business credits are broad but your current goal is finance. Its published university and major credit requirements also make the completion discussion specific: ask which finance courses you must finish at Park.

Before you apply: Check the additional finance elective and its prerequisites when mapping your final terms.

Columbia Southern’s finance option is a concentration within business administration. Its courses emphasize financial institutions and international finance, economics and trade. For a returning student, that makes the distinction useful: compare how much of your prior business core transfers and whether the concentration provides the finance depth you want.

Before you apply: Request the finance-concentration plan specifically. The concentration and the broader business core serve different parts of the degree.

Cincinnati’s finance BBA makes analytical work visible in the curriculum through modeling, valuation and investment courses. Returning students can first resolve the calculus prerequisite through the Pre-BBA route when needed. Once admitted, finance electives let you compare areas such as portfolios or financial programming against the courses already on your transcript.

Before you apply: At least two electives must use the FIN prefix. Confirm which previous electives meet that requirement.

Davenport gives finance students alternatives for the applied portion of the degree. A field experience, internship or ACG capstone sequence can connect coursework with actual financial decisions. If you return while working, discuss those alternatives early. The optional financial planning specialty also gives you a specific curriculum to compare with a general finance plan.

Before you apply: The financial planning specialty is an educational route. It does not itself award professional certification.

WGU’s finance capstone asks you to analyze an enterprise with spreadsheet software, giving the completion plan a clear practical destination. Earlier courses can be evaluated for transfer while remaining coursework follows the competency model. Compare the financial technology, corporate finance and analysis requirements with the knowledge you already use at work.

Before you apply: Course completion depends on demonstrating each required competency. Build a study plan around the assessments that remain.

Oregon State lets you fulfill the finance degree’s experiential requirement through several forms of work, including a project, thesis or internship. The university says the experience can be completed from your location. That matters for a returning student who cannot relocate: compare the approved activity with your remaining finance courses and the final-credit residency rule.

Before you apply: An internship is one option, not the only option. Agree on an approved experiential plan before your last terms.

Excelsior’s finance concentration lets you finish a broad business degree while directing part of the plan toward financial decisions. A 15-credit concentration sits alongside the business core and electives. That structure gives an adviser several places to assess earlier coursework, but the finance requirements still need their own course-by-course review.

Before you apply: The published 113-credit transfer ceiling does not guarantee that every prior course will satisfy this concentration’s requirements.

Memphis gives returning students an online finance major within the BBA structure. Its coverage spans financial markets, investment decisions and corporate finance, so it can suit someone who wants a broad financial foundation. Compare your earlier economics, accounting and mathematics courses against the lower division business requirements before estimating the remaining major work.

Before you apply: Ask which business prerequisites must be completed before your first upper division finance courses.

Northwest’s corporate finance emphasis gives the remaining degree work a clear company focus. Financial modeling and valuation lead into a capstone centered on decisions a finance leader makes. Returning students should compare their accounting and economics foundation against that sequence, then request a plan showing how much of the 120-credit degree remains.

Before you apply: Its finance program publishes an 81-credit transfer ceiling; do not apply a different Northwest program’s limit to this degree.

Columbia College’s Finance BS spans corporate finance, investments and personal financial planning. Returning students can use that range to explore where they want to focus while finishing the business foundation. Its eight-week online terms give the remaining coursework a regular rhythm, but an adviser should first confirm the sequencing of your finance requirements.

Before you apply: Ask whether the next courses require accounting, economics or statistics prerequisites that your transfer evaluation has not yet satisfied.