Finance at Eastern Illinois University

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

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 7,526 students attend the school each year. Of the 193 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Illinois University in 2019, 21 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.

EIU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

EIU Finance Rankings

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

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 EIU 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
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	336
Best Finance Schools	363
Most Popular Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	369
Most Popular Finance Schools	396
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	476
Most Focused Finance Schools	511

Finance Student Demographics at EIU

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

EIU Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 21 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from EIU. Of these graduates, 86% were men and 14% were women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at EIU 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 Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	14
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

EIU 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 IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Financial Managers	40,040	$144,680
Financial Analysts	14,810	$88,760
Loan Officers	12,330	$81,620
Chief Executives	9,650	$230,070

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.