Finance at California State University - Northridge

If you are interested in studying finance, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Northridge. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and approximately 40,381 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,054 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - Northridge in 2021, 399 of them were finance majors.

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

CSUN Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

CSUN Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how CSUN performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

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. 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
	11
	17
	139
	150
	190
	353
	390
	429
	477

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 Bachelor’s Program

Of the 399 finance students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from CSUN, about 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 26% 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.

Related Majors

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
Financial Analysts	37,900	$109,640
Loan Officers	37,030	$78,940
Chief Executives	30,290	$228,270

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.