Finance at Lake Forest College

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

Lake Forest is located in Lake Forest, Illinois and has a total student population of 1,583. Of the 124 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Lake Forest College in 2021, 28 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.

Lake Forest Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Lake Forest Finance Rankings

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

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 Lake Forest 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
	29
	39
	117
	136
	263
	300
	321
	352
	512
	586

Finance Student Demographics at Lake Forest

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Lake Forest College.

Lake Forest Finance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 28 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from Lake Forest in 2020-2021, 75% were men and 25% were women.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Lake Forest are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Lake Forest College with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	15
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Lake Forest 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 IL, the home state for Lake Forest College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Financial Managers	40,040	$144,680
Financial Analysts	14,810	$88,760
Loan Officers	12,330	$81,620
Chief Executives	9,650	$230,070

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 Eudaimonia86 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.