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Pulichino Tong Business Center trading room and lobby

With exceptional undergraduate and graduate programs and faculty, the finance program in the Manning School of Business prepares students to make decisions regarding raising and investing funds for private and public corporations. Finance students also gain a deep understanding of risk management, investment asset allocation and the intricacies of the global financial markets.

The Manning School of Business provides all students in the business school access to Bloomberg terminals in the Trading Room located in the Pulichino Tong Business Center. Universities around the globe use Bloomberg and other databases to bring the real world of business and finance into the classroom, providing students with access to the same information and decision-making platform used by leading finance professionals.

Finance Trading Room And Bloomberg Certification

As part of our commitment to experiential learning, all students in the core financial management course are required to complete the Bloomberg Markets Concepts certification.

Bloomberg Market Concepts. The program was developed by Bloomberg to recognize academic institutions that lead the way in integrating Bloomberg information resources into their curricula for experiential learning opportunities.

The certification consists of 8 hours of training modules including evaluating economic indicators, currencies, fixed income, and equity services.

Since the integration of the certification into our financial management course, the number of students completing the certification has increased from 83 students when the facility opened in Spring 2017, to 655 students in the 2019-2020 academic year. Over the past two years, 64% of students achieved our benchmark of at least 75% across all the modules in the certification.

The integration of the Bloomberg terminals and data analysis are continued throughout the finance concentration and graduate programs.

This integration supports the development of core technology and data analytics skills that enable our graduates to make a positive impact in their financial professions.

Meet Our Students

Finance student Heer Patel seated inside a UMass Lowell building
Heer Patel '23
Accounting, Finance

A staff accountant internship at Novogradac confirmed business major Heer Patel’s interest in auditing.

I wanted a college that I could afford, and that has diversity and inclusiveness and makes me feel welcome. UMass Lowell was perfect.
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