Finance at University of Iowa

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

Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa and approximately 30,318 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,548 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Iowa in 2021, 388 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.

Iowa Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at Iowa

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

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

Iowa Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Iowa 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 Iowa 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
	3
	5
	5
	10
	13
	60
	66
	159
	203

Finance Student Demographics at Iowa

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

Iowa Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 388 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from Iowa. Of these graduates, 78% were men and 22% were women.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Iowa are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	306
International Students	38
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Iowa 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 IA, the home state for University of Iowa.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
General and Operations Managers	23,570	$99,720
Financial Managers	8,630	$114,620
Loan Officers	4,540	$67,580
Financial Analysts	2,410	$83,230
Chief Executives	2,020	$211,560

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 KMSatoh202 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.