Finance at Kent State University at Kent

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

Kent State is located in Kent, Ohio and approximately 26,822 students attend the school each year. 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 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.

Kent State Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Kent State Finance 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. 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
	118
	228
	381

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 Bachelor’s Program

Of the 128 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in finance from Kent State in 2021, 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 4% 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.

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 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
Loan Officers	11,520	$72,030
Financial Analysts	9,260	$80,060
Personal Financial Advisors	6,000	$102,300

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.