Distinctive Program Features

Boot Camp

Boot Camp, an intensive year-long career program, prepares you for internships and jobs with high level investment banks and other financial institutions by providing career-focused training, mock interviews and resume writing.

You will be trained by the Wall Street training firm, Training the Street, and visit financial services organizations such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Oppenheimer, Bank of America and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

University at Albany School of Business Investment Group

Pictured from left: Michael Reynolds ’08, Matthew Alfieri ’08, and Vincent Cisternino ’08, alumni of the Financial Analyst Program and co-founders of UASBIG.

Approximately 30 students are selected to join UASBIG each year. They manage a diversified investment fund while learning proper research techniques for successful security analysis and portfolio manage­ment. During monthly conference calls, students pitch stocks to an Advisory Board. The officers of UASBIG prepare regular perfor­mance reports and make annual presentations to the University at Albany Foundation Board, who provided the funds for UASBIG with an initial $100,000 endowment. UASBIG is sponsored by the University at Albany Center for Institutional Investment Manage­ment.

Senior Thesis Project

“Our professors are always available to teach, guide, and help us. They work closely with every student, which makes the Financial Analyst Honors Program unique.” – Richa Birla ’12

Over the course of a semester, you will hone your skills by:

• Reviewing past literature on an important, relevant topic
• Framing an idea and formulating a hypothesis
• Working with large databases
• Applying sophisticated analytical methods
• Writing a professional report
• Presenting major conclusions to fellow students, faculty, and alumni

Find out about the amazing success rate that this program has shown in placing its graduates in many of the top financial firms in the nation.