Finance & Financial Management at Florida International University

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

FIU is located in Miami, Florida and approximately 58,836 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 694 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from FIU.

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.

FIU Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Master’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at FIU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? FIU offers distance education options for finance at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

FIU Finance & Financial Management Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at FIU 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
	3
	3
	88
	103
	109
	124
	198
	290
	343

In 2021, 105 students received their master’s degree in finance from FIU. This makes it the #7 most popular school for finance master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Finance Graduates from FIU Make?

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at FIU is $44,811. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $48,896 for all finance students.

Finance Student Demographics at FIU

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

FIU Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 694 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from FIU. Of these graduates, 58% were men and 42% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at FIU since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 56% 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 Florida International University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	20
Black or African American	67
Hispanic or Latino	475
White	55
International Students	60
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

FIU Finance & Financial Management Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 105 students graduated with a master's degree in finance from FIU. About 57% were men and 43% were women.

In the finance master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 54% of degree recipients. That is 27% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Florida International University with a master's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	51
White	11
International Students	37
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

FIU 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

If you plan to be a finance major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Florida International University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	799

Related Majors

• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Management Information Systems
• Real Estate
• Human Resource Management
• Accounting

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 FL, the home state for Florida International University.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
General and Operations Managers	123,800	$112,600
Financial Managers	29,050	$132,850
Tellers	28,090	$32,140
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	27,560	$82,810
Chief Executives	20,860	$187,870

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 Comayagua99 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.