Finance at Baruch College

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

Baruch is located in New York, New York and approximately 18,029 students attend the school each year. In 2019, 937 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from Baruch.

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

Baruch Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Master’s Degree in Finance

Baruch Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Baruch performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at Baruch 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
Most Popular Finance Schools	1
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Popular Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	1
Most Focused Finance Schools	2
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	285

In 2019, 5 students received their master’s degree in finance from Baruch. This makes it the #120 most popular school for finance master’s degree candidates in the country.

Finance Student Demographics at Baruch

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

Baruch Finance Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at Baruch awarded 937 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 59% of these degrees went to men with the other 41% going to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Baruch since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 38% 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 Baruch College with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	341
Black or African American	55
Hispanic or Latino	193
White	210
International Students	132
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Baruch Finance Master’s Program

In the 2018-2019 academic year, 5 students earned a master's degree in finance from Baruch. About 40% of these graduates were women and the other 60% were men.

In the finance master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 60% of degree recipients. That is 35% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Baruch College with a master's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Baruch also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2019, 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 NY, the home state for Baruch College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
General and Operations Managers	163,250	$156,260
Financial Analysts	53,250	$137,270
Financial Managers	42,460	$210,510
Personal Financial Advisors	26,710	$164,260
Loan Officers	12,890	$103,450

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.