Finance & Financial Management at Kent State University at Kent

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

Kent State is located in Kent, Ohio and has a total student population of 26,822. Of the 1,254 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University at Kent in 2021, 128 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.

Kent State Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Kent State Finance & Financial Management Rankings

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

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 Kent State 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
	124
	184
	396
	410
	450

Earnings of Kent State Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at Kent State is $45,393. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $48,896 for all finance students.

Finance Student Demographics at Kent State

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

Kent State Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 128 finance students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Kent State, about 66% were men and 34% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Kent State since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Kent State 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 Kent State University at Kent with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	89
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	128

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Human Resource Management
• Construction 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 OH, the home state for Kent State University at Kent.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
General and Operations Managers	58,980	$118,470
Financial Managers	19,980	$135,610
Tellers	18,080	$28,990
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	13,300	$77,960
Bill and Account Collectors	11,800	$35,900

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 JonRidinger under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.