Financial Mathematics
In recent years, the need for additional analytical and technical skills in financial and risk analysis has grown significantly. The technical nature of modern financial and economic analysis requires a student with a strong mathematical and computational background in addition to strong skills in business and economics. The financial mathematics major is designed to provide the student with these skills.
The marketplace is also demanding this new combination of skills. Alumni and friends of Asbury College have advised that the need for technically savvy analysts is large and growing. Professional opportunities for actuaries, a prototype occupation for financial mathematics, are always near the top of employment projections. The continued spread of free-market economies, furthermore, increases the potential for these graduates to have international impact in an environment that seeks those who have a worldview shaped by the classical liberal arts and complemented by cutting-edge financial analysis.