Welcome to the Ohio State University Department of Finance! Enjoy using our web pages and sharing ideas with us. We place high value on both teaching and research with the aim of contributing to the corporate and academic community. Courses are taught in the areas of investments, corporate finance, and banking. Specialties include insurance and real estate.

Members of the department have received numerous teaching awards and have innovated with experiential learning with courses like the Student Investment Management Program which manages over $9 million in University funds and offers trips for students to major financial centers. Research is another important focus of the department. Ohio State was the home to the Journal of Finance  for twelve years, an outlet for high impact research in finance. Research is supported by an active group of Ph.D. students, a weekly research seminar and the Charles A. Dice Center for Financial Economics. The department has been consistently highly ranked in national surveys. According to a recent survey by Chan, Lung, and Wolfe, “Research Ranking of Finance Departments: A Modified Citation Approach,” January 2005, the finance department at Fisher is ranked #8 worldwide for citations in leading finance journals.