Finance at University of Memphis

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

UofM is located in Memphis, Tennessee and approximately 22,205 students attend the school each year. Of the 624 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Memphis in 2021, 91 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.

UofM Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at UofM

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? UofM offers distance education options for finance at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UofM Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how UofM 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 UofM 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
	10
	11
	50
	315
	324

Finance Student Demographics at UofM

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

UofM Finance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 91 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in finance from UofM in 2021, 65% were men and 35% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UofM since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at UofM are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 Memphis with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	30
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	49
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UofM 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 TN, the home state for University of Memphis.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
General and Operations Managers	41,980	$110,580
Financial Managers	15,870	$111,460
Chief Executives	6,680	$152,730
Loan Officers	5,440	$63,810
Financial Analysts	4,510	$74,870

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 BenSherman under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.