Finance at East Carolina University

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

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,718 students attend the school each year. In 2019, 167 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from ECU.

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

ECU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

ECU Finance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at ECU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 ECU 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 Online Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Most Popular Online Finance Schools	5
Most Popular Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	83
Most Popular Finance Schools	91
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	153
Best Finance Schools	162
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	253
Most Focused Finance Schools	283

Finance Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 167 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in finance from ECU. About 72% were men and 28% were women.

About 73% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at ECU 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 East Carolina University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	122
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

ECU 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 NC, the home state for East 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
Financial Analysts	8,930	$89,020
Personal Financial Advisors	7,010	$134,860

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.