Finance & Financial Management at University of Houston - Downtown

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

UH Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 15,239 students attend the school each year. Of the 941 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Houston - Downtown in 2021, 146 of them were finance and financial management majors.

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.

UH Downtown Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at UH Downtown

Online courses are a good option for students who need a more flexible schedule that allows them to pursue an education when and where they want. Whether you're going to school part-time or full-time, you may find distance education the right choice for you.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UH Downtown offers distance education options for finance at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UH Downtown Finance & Financial Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how UH Downtown 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 UH Downtown 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
	5
	8
	105
	108
	121
	132
	247
	282
	477

Earnings of UH Downtown Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH Downtown is $43,449. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $48,896 for all finance students.

Finance Student Demographics at UH Downtown

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

UH Downtown Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at UH Downtown awarded 146 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 46% of these degrees went to men with the other 54% going to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UH Downtown since its program graduates 24% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 43% 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 University of Houston - Downtown with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	63
White	32
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UH Downtown 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

The following finance concentations are available at University of Houston - Downtown. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Houston - Downtown. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	146

Related Majors

• Insurance
• International Business
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• General Business/Commerce

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 TX, the home state for University of Houston - Downtown.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
General and Operations Managers	195,730	$125,870
Tellers	47,520	$28,710
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	43,170	$85,720
Financial Managers	39,580	$149,990
Bill and Account Collectors	28,350	$36,590

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 Nick22aku under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.