Finance at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 37,024. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 337 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from Virginia Tech.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Finance section at the bottom of this page.

Virginia Tech Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Virginia Tech Finance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech 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
	15
	23
	26
	51
	121
	162

Finance Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech Finance Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 337 students earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Virginia Tech. About 25% of these graduates were women and the other 75% were men.

About 77% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Virginia Tech 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 Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	25
White	260
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

Virginia Tech 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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
General and Operations Managers	52,440	$142,000
Financial Managers	15,180	$164,030
Loan Officers	10,140	$80,440
Financial Analysts	8,550	$97,990
Chief Executives	5,760	$228,540

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 Eric T Gunther under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.