Finance & Financial Management at Rider University

What traits are you looking for in a finance school? To help you decide if Rider University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's finance program.

Rider is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and approximately 4,636 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 25 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from Rider.

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.

Rider Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Rider Finance & Financial Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Rider 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 Rider 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
	319
	344
	350
	391
	415
	453
	566

Earnings of Rider Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at Rider is $45,476. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $48,896 for all finance students.

Finance Student Demographics at Rider

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

Rider Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 25 finance students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Rider, about 68% were men and 32% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Rider since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Rider University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	11
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Rider 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 Rider University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	25

Related Majors

• Business/Managerial Economics
• Management Information Systems
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Human Resource 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 NJ, the home state for Rider University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
General and Operations Managers	43,070	$167,600
Financial Managers	21,340	$175,880
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	15,440	$98,850
Tellers	13,380	$32,950
Financial Analysts	10,560	$106,100

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 Magneticcarpet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.