INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE NEWS
BLOOMBERG TERMINALS LINK STUDENTS WITH FINANCIAL WORLD
BY SUZANNE SELDES
Students studying at Indian River State
College now have access to the platform
used by the world’s leading banks, corporations
real-time global financial data, news feeds
and messages.
The college has installed 12 Bloomberg
Terminals, providing students with unparalleled
— from fixed income to equities, foreign
exchange, commodities and derivatives.
IRSC’s implementation of the terminals
finance into the classroom. IRSC is one of
more than 1,000 academic institutions
globally — but the only one on Florida’s
Treasure Coast — to integrate Bloomberg
into the curriculum for its business and
finance degree programs.
The new Bloomberg Financial Lab will
also be used for financial literacy programs
and Bloomberg certification courses,
which the college expects to begin later
this year.
“The opportunity to bring Bloomberg
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coverage of markets and securities
with information across asset classes
brings the real world of business and
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to our students provides an unparalleled
resource in developing valuable financial
and analytic skills that will differentiate and
improve their competitiveness in the job
market,” explains Dr. Prashanth Pilly, dean
of the IRSC Business Division. “Integrating
classroom teaching with the real-world
data, news and analytics available on the
terminal better prepares our students for futures
in the business and finance industries.”
IRSC’s subscriptions to the Bloomberg
Terminal will serve as a resource for
students and professors. It will enable students
to become familiar with tools used
in financial services, reinforcing classroom
theory, while professors can use it to further
their research.
“When a student comes to IRSC, they
can expect a best-in-class education and
our Bloomberg Finance Lab is another
example of the outstanding resources
that are freely available to them,” says IRSC
President Dr. Timothy Moore. “At IRSC, students
from every academic discipline have
the opportunity to sharpen their financial
literacy to help them succeed personally
and professionally.”
Students of varying levels and study
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IRSC Investment Club students explore use of
Bloomberg Terminals in the new IRSC Bloomberg
Finance Lab at the grand opening event on
Wednesday, Feb. 23. The College has installed 12
Bloomberg Terminals, providing students with
unparalleled coverage of markets and securities
with information across asset classes — from
fixed income to equities, foreign exchange,
commodities and derivatives.
areas can familiarize themselves with the
fundamentals of finance by taking Bloomberg
Market Concepts. Upon completion
of the program’s core concepts modules,
students will receive a certificate of completion
that can be added to their LinkedIn
profiles and resumes to show their knowledge
of the markets and the terminal.
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