{"id":1615,"date":"2025-06-03T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/study\/?post_type=areas&#038;p=1615"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T12:54:19","slug":"finance","status":"publish","type":"areas","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/study\/areas\/finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--yellow umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">majors, minors &amp; Areas of study<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Finance<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-finance\">Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Finance major provides students with a sound foundation to move in a broad range of professional directions in Finance including the public, governmental, private, and not-for-profit sectors.\u00a0 In addition to having many UMW graduates working in these various areas, the College of Business invites many UMW graduates back to campus to interact with current students. 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