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Financial Technology, or FinTech, makes financial transactions simple by creating digital platforms to manage finances. Every time you swipe your debit card or make a mobile bank deposit, the technologies and platforms created by FinTech professionals are working to make the transaction easy and convenient for you! Simply put, the FinTech industry makes it possible to handle investing, banking, and purchases digitally.
The Associate of Science in Financial Technology eMajor degree is a 100% online degree created through collaboration with FinTech industry leaders to create a talent pipeline to fill the demand of this exploding field in Georgia. Available through multiple University System of Georgia institutions, this eMajor degree is designed to prepare students to hit the ground running in these exciting jobs of the future.
Program Organization: 62 credit hours
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- Core IMPACTS: 44 credit hours
- Face-to-face, online, or mixed face-to-face and online classes
- Tuition: $95 per credit hour
- Field Area: 18 credit hours
- Students enrolled in EGSC ACCT 2101: 3 credit hours
- Face-to-face or online
- Tuition: $95 per credit hour
- Students enrolled in eMajor classes: 15 credit hours
- Online classes
- Required Financial Technology classes
- Tuition: $199 per credit hour
- Students enrolled in EGSC ACCT 2101: 3 credit hours
- Core IMPACTS: 44 credit hours
Program Specific Requirements:
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- 100% online, asynchronous course delivery
- Complete the eMajor new student introduction quiz at emajor.usg.edu
Core IMPACTS: 42 Hours
Institutional Priority, Mathematics and Quantitative Skills, Political Science and U.S. History, Arts, Humanities, and Ethics, Communicating in Writing, Technology, Mathematics and Sciences, Social Sciences
ECON 2105 - Principles of Macroeconomics is recommended in the Social Sciences area.
Please see College Catalog for required curriculum
Field of Study: 18 Hours
Required courses (18 credit hours)
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- ACCT 2101
Principles of Accounting I
3 credits - FTA 2400
Introduction to Financial Technology
3 credits - FTA 2410
Coding for Financial Technology
3 credits - FTA 2420
Data Analytics for Financial Technology
3 credits - FTA 2430
Cybersecurity for Financial Technology
3 credits - FTA 2440
Financial Technologies and Services
3 credits
- ACCT 2101
Total Semester Hours: 60
Georgia is home to well over 90 FinTech companies including those with a global footprint like TSYS and Global Payments, as well as many small start-ups. According to the American Transaction Processing Coalition (ATPC), 70% of all U.S. payments are processed through Georgia’s “Transaction Alley.” With annual revenue of more than $72 billion, Georgia is rapidly becoming a hotspot for the growing FinTech industry and is in immediate need of qualified employees to facilitate future growth.
With a clear demand for local talent in this growing industry, a FinTech degree from an institution of the University System of Georgia will equip graduates to propel into this lucrative and rapidly expanding industry
Jobs in FinTech include:
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- App Development
- Fraud Prevention
- Data Analytics
- Compliance
Professor Natasha Goss
Professor of Accounting and Business
Email: nwgossFREEOMNIUPDATE
Phone: 478-289-2184
Dr. Jaehyuk Lee
Associate Professor of Economics
Email: jaehyukleeFREEOMNIUPDATE
Phone: 478-289-2068 (Swainsboro)
and 912-623-2430 (Statesboro)
