Finance at Purdue University - Main Campus

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

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,350 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University - Main Campus in 2021, 227 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.

Purdue Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Purdue Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Purdue 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 Purdue 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
	110
	385

Finance Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Finance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 227 finance students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Purdue, about 70% were men and 30% were women.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Purdue are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	24
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	126
International Students	57
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Purdue also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Financial Planning & Services

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
General and Operations Managers	54,610	$103,370
Financial Managers	7,520	$119,820
Loan Officers	4,850	$67,450
Chief Executives	4,220	$148,730
Personal Financial Advisors	3,740	$111,330

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.