“Applying to Finance Major in University”

Devina Malinda / 2001545470

Whether it is personal or professional as in corporations, we need to master Finance studies, or at least understand it as every activity we do is connected to Financial Studies. Even a simple act of choosing a meal packet in Mc Donalds got us to think which packet is more beneficial to us as of course, we would like to spend our money less than what we earn – and that is one of the financial principles!

According to Investopedia, Finance describes the management, creation, and study of money, banking, credit, investments, assets and liabilities that make up financial systems, as well as the study of those financial instruments or for the simple definition is a study of how to make use and to manage money to make profit.

So these are some of the benefits of Applying to Finance Major :
First thing, the Wide Range of Financial Job opportunities!

When you apply to a major, of course, you have to think about your chances in the future jobs. And fortunately, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) just wrote their research in Forbes 2016 that Finance is at at the top of one most in-demand bachelor’s degree, having 87 respondents (out of 169 respondents) who claimed they highly reckon those candidates who studied Finance Major.

High Rate Salary

The salary rate of your future opportunities is also important, and here are some example for Financial jobs salary per year

• Financial Analysts: $74,350 or Rp991.643.125,00
• Financial Examiners: $74,940 or Rp999.512.250,00
• Personal Financial Advisors: $64,750 or Rp1.385.899.625,00
• Financial Managers: $103,910 or Rp863.603.125,00

You will have a more specific focus of study:

When you are interested in business careers then you will have a variety of college degree options such as business, management, or accounting. One awesome benefit to choosing a finance major is because of it’s more a specific focus, but it still allows you to explore a field that is also flexible with many other job opportunities.

Expanding your abilities not only in hard skills but also in soft skills!

Not downgrading another major, but it is a fact that to strive in Financial career, you have to be good in communication, outgoing, easy to blend with different cultures, and also inquisitive. Learning hard skills such as accounting is easier to do as it only requires diligence and paper practices (Well, of course, you’ll need to be good at mathematics), but it is not the same as finance graduates. So both education and personality are all required for finance jobs. In this major, you are “forced” to expand your soft skills.

References :
http://www. onlinefinancedegree.org/5- reasons-why-finance-is-a-good- major/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ karstenstrauss/2016/11/23/top- degrees-for-getting-hired-in- 2017/#4ac8edb6634a