Business & Tech
Essex College In Newark Boosts Students With Bloomberg Terminals
An icon of the financial world has arrived at Essex County College. "The who's who of the financial world use it," an administrator said.
NEWARK, NJ — It’s a modern icon of the financial world: the Bloomberg Terminal. And now, students at Essex County College in Newark are able to harness the same technology that some of the world’s most influential financers use.
Recently, the college added two Bloomberg Terminal software packages in its Faculty Technology Resource Center via funding from the federal Strengthening Career and Technical Education (CTE) for the 21st Century Act.
The devices, which provide real-time financial market data from Bloomberg, are available to faculty in the division of business and students enrolled in eligible CTE programs.
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They’ll give students a big leg up, administrators say; Essex County College is one of only four New Jersey community colleges to have Bloomberg Terminal access on campus.
“Having Bloomberg Terminal software on campus is a major selling point for our college,” said professor Germaine Albuquerque, acting chair of the division of business.
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“The who’s who of the financial world use it,” Albuquerque added.
Those luminaries may soon include Tonhon Haba, a Newark resident and business administration major at Essex County College who has been using the new terminals to get a jumpstart on a Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) certification.
“I’ll be using the data for my school work and in my career,” Haba said. “There’s just so much information available now.”
Haba’s fellow student Mina Michael, a business administration major from Bayonne, said he likes the real-time data he now has at his fingertips.
“This is something that has always interested me, and being BMC-certified will definitely help me going forward into the business world,” he said.
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