Finance & Financial Management at California State University - Northridge

If you plan to study finance and financial management, take a look at what California State University - Northridge has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and has a total student population of 40,381. Of the 2,054 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - Northridge in 2021, 399 of them were finance and financial management majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Finance & Financial Management section at the bottom of this page.

CSUN Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

CSUN Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at CSUN compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at CSUN is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Finance & Financial Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	12
	20
	147
	165
	223
	363
	413
	448
	523

Earnings of CSUN Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at CSUN is $43,894. This is less than $48,896, which is the national average of all finance majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Finance Student Demographics at CSUN

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at California State University - Northridge.

CSUN Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 399 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Finance & Financial Management from CSUN in 2020-2021, 64% were men and 36% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at CSUN since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% more racial-ethnic minorities in its finance bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Northridge with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	51
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	136
White	125
International Students	42
Other Races/Ethnicities	31

CSUN also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Finance & Financial Management

The following finance concentations are available at California State University - Northridge. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from California State University - Northridge. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	399

Related Majors

• Taxation
• Hospitality Management
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Finance Grads May Go Into

A degree in finance can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - Northridge.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
General and Operations Managers	249,800	$137,640
Financial Managers	81,350	$157,480
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	50,990	$81,610
Tellers	43,070	$32,120
Financial Analysts	37,900	$109,640

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Cbl62 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.