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Business and Financial Math Experience Guide

Make the most out of your university career by taking advantage of all that Laurier has to offer you. Volunteer work, campus clubs, leadership programs, studying abroad, work experience – there are so many ways you can extend your classroom experience into the real world.

Your Year-to-Year Experience

Explore learning activities that work well with your program.

Program Highlights

  • A unique opportunity to build the quantitative expertise needed to analyze risk in business and industry and an opportunity to learn about internal and external business structures and processes and the skills needed to manage them while simultaneously earning two degrees in only five years.
  • Only the best business schools worldwide are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) – the highest standard of achievement for business schools. The Lazaridis School of Business & Economics has been accredited since 2004.
  • The largest business degree co-op program in the country, which gives you the chance to explore different career options and develop skills for the future through 12 months of practical work experience.
  • You don’t get a Lazaridis BBA, you live a Lazaridis BBA. Be immersed in the reality of today’s businesses and learn how to think for yourself. You will learn to adapt to a world of ever-growing complexity, and solve problems no one has faced before.
    • In your first year, you will work in a team to generate and present a new venture for the BDO New Venture Competition.
    • In your third year, you will put your business knowledge and skills to the test during a 10-day Integrated Case Exercise (ICE), where you will analyze a real problem facing a real organization.
  • Learn the theory and the methods that are essential to succeed in the financial sector while mastering business practices and the knowledge it takes to manage complex modern financial instruments and generate resources.
  • Gain experience solving real-world problems in financial mathematics and risk management in our math labs, where you will use mathematical and statistical software. In your upper years, gain valuable work experience as an instructional assistant for laboratory sessions in Mathematics and Statistics.
  • In your final year, you can choose to pursue a project of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member.
  • Explore opportunities to be creative and innovative and learn how to take your ideas and turn them into profitable new ventures. StartUp Lab, Laurier's incubator in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, provides support, mentorship and resources to startups founded by Laurier students.
  • The Lazaridis Students' Society (LazSoc) is the student government specifically for all Business, double-degree, and Economics students at Laurier and includes a variety of clubs, committees and associations. LazSoc strives to enhance your university experience by providing opportunities to discover and pursue your passions through academic and networking events.

Enhance Your Business and Financial Math Experience

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Checklists for Success

Academic Checklist

Experience Checklist
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Develop Your Knowledge and Skills

Develop competencies through your curricular and co-curricular opportunities to help prepare for your future.

Target

Discover Career Opportunities

Laurier Business-Financial Math Graduates (2021)
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Employed
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Pursuing Further Education

Respondents from the 2021 Laurier Graduate Survey conducted by the Career Centre. Graduates were surveyed within 12 months of graduation.

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Your Experiences Tell Your Story

Share your story with the Laurier Experience Record. An interactive, shareable and official record of your hands-on experiences and learning opportunities at Laurier – the first of its kind in Canada!

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