Finance at Central Washington University

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

CWU is located in Ellensburg, Washington and has a total student population of 11,174. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 64 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from CWU.

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

CWU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

CWU Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how CWU 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 CWU 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
	113
	137
	187
	195
	223
	252

Finance Student Demographics at CWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Central Washington University.

CWU Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 64 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in finance from CWU. About 61% were men and 39% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at CWU since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% 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 Central Washington University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	22
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

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

Related Majors

• Financial Planning & Services

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 WA, the home state for Central Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
General and Operations Managers	47,770	$124,810
Financial Managers	13,010	$136,480
Loan Officers	6,940	$74,830
Financial Analysts	6,480	$87,590
Chief Executives	3,690	$220,730

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.