Finance & Financial Management at Western Carolina University

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

WCU is located in Cullowhee, North Carolina and has a total student population of 12,243. Of the 553 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Western Carolina University in 2021, 51 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.

WCU Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at WCU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, WCU does offer online courses in finance for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

WCU Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at WCU 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 WCU 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
	14
	19
	39
	222
	247
	381
	411
	434
	448
	602
	697

Earnings of WCU Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at WCU is $38,206. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $48,896 for all finance students.

Finance Student Demographics at WCU

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

WCU Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at WCU awarded 51 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 69% of these degrees went to men with the other 31% going to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at WCU since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at WCU 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 Western Carolina University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	42
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

WCU 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

If you plan to be a finance major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Western Carolina University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	51

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Hospitality Management
• Human Resource Management
• Management Information Systems
• 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 NC, the home state for Western Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
General and Operations Managers	54,330	$131,600
Financial Managers	15,730	$149,710
Loan Officers	13,910	$72,210
Tellers	11,850	$32,100
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	11,080	$88,810

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.