Finance & Financial Management at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you plan to study finance and financial management, take a look at what University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and has a total student population of 52,679. Of the 2,094 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021, 287 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.

UIUC Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

UIUC Finance & Financial Management Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at UIUC 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
	15
	39
	100
	160
	388

Earnings of UIUC Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIUC is $66,961. This is 37% higher than $48,896, which is the national average for all finance bachelor's degree recipients.

Finance Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 287 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in finance from UIUC. About 61% were men and 39% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

About 51% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at UIUC are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	68
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	145
International Students	29
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

UIUC 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	287

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Human Resource Management
• Management Information Systems
• Marketing
• Accounting

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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Financial Managers	40,040	$144,680
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	21,980	$91,640
Tellers	18,530	$29,860
Financial Analysts	14,810	$88,760

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.