Finance at Rutgers University - Newark

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

Rutgers Newark is located in Newark, New Jersey and approximately 13,231 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,029 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University - Newark in 2021, 241 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.

Rutgers Newark Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Rutgers Newark Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Rutgers Newark 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 Rutgers Newark 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
	28
	37
	38
	45
	47
	49
	54
	55
	188

Finance Student Demographics at Rutgers Newark

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

Rutgers Newark Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 241 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from Rutgers Newark. Of these graduates, 59% were men and 41% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Rutgers Newark since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 Rutgers University - Newark with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	45
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	47
White	46
International Students	72
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Rutgers Newark 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 NJ, the home state for Rutgers University - Newark.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
General and Operations Managers	43,070	$167,600
Financial Managers	21,340	$175,880
Financial Analysts	10,560	$106,100
Loan Officers	6,670	$85,540
Financial Specialists	5,360	$81,660

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.