Admission to Program
Students should apply to the Double Dawgs pathway in Athena.
Students may apply to the Double Dawgs pathway as early as their first semester after acceptance into the Terry College of Business as a management major. Questions related to Terry College acceptance should be directed to the Terry College Undergraduate Programs Office, not the Double Dawgs advisor.
Curriculum
Graduate-level courses that may be used to satisfy undergraduate and graduate program requirements.
Undergraduate students in MGMT may take up to a maximum of four 3-credit graduate FHCE prefix courses in place of upper-division Arts and Sciences (non-business) electives to satisfy the undergraduate degree requirement.
- FHCE 6200 Advanced Wealth Management I (3)
- FHCE 6205 Advanced Wealth Management II (3)
- FHCE 6210 Advanced Retirement Planning and Employee Benefits (3)
- FHCE 6220 Advanced Estate Planning (3)
- FHCE 6230 Advanced Family Tax Planning (3)
- FHCE 6250 Practice Management in Financial Planning (3)
- FHCE 7200 Advanced Financial Counseling and Client Communication (3)
- FHCE 7250 Capstone in Advanced Financial Planning (3)
- FHCE 8200 Financial Planning and Analysis (3)
- FHCE 8025 Research Evaluation and Theory in Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics (3)
Additional requirements that are unique to this Double Dawgs program:
All of the above courses are required for the graduate degree. Depending on which courses the student takes while an undergraduate student (up to 12 hours), they will then take the remaining courses to complete the graduate degree.
Admission to Graduate Program
Students should apply to the Graduate School during their final undergraduate semester. Students in this program may matriculate to the graduate program in the fall or spring semesters. The application deadlines for fall and spring are July 1st and November 15th, respectively.
In order to take Financial Planning graduate courses prior to acceptance to the graduate program, students who meet the following requirements should submit documentation of eligibility to the FHCE Graduate Coordinator:
- Current standing as an undergraduate Management Information Systems B.B.A. major.
- A cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0, including any graduate courses used to satisfy undergraduate requirements.
- On track to have completed at least 60 total credits by the end of the semester for which they seek admission to the Double Dawgs pathway.
Admission to the program also requires two letters of recommendation and a written statement of purpose.