Finance at Eastern Connecticut State University

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

ECSU is located in Willimantic, Connecticut and has a total student population of 4,644. Of the 169 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2021, 22 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.

ECSU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

ECSU Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how ECSU 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 ECSU 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
	313
	326
	345
	360
	367
	395
	531
	560
	603
	616

Finance Student Demographics at ECSU

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

ECSU Finance Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at ECSU awarded 22 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 86% of these degrees went to men with the other 14% going to women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at ECSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

ECSU 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 CT, the home state for Eastern Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
General and Operations Managers	30,330	$155,890
Financial Managers	15,750	$167,160
Financial Analysts	6,240	$105,950
Personal Financial Advisors	4,470	$131,280
Loan Officers	2,480	$91,730

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 John Phelan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.