Finance at Northern Arizona University

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

NAU is located in Flagstaff, Arizona and has a total student population of 31,066. In 2019, 173 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from NAU.

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

NAU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

NAU Finance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at NAU 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 NAU 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	80
Most Popular Finance Schools	86
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	300
Most Focused Finance Schools	331
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	388
Best Finance Schools	424

Finance Student Demographics at NAU

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

NAU Finance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 65% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 35% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at NAU since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at NAU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Northern Arizona University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	23
White	96
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	32

NAU also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Finance and Financial Management Services
• Investments and Securities

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 AZ, the home state for Northern Arizona University.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
General and Operations Managers	50,540	$102,470
Financial Managers	11,400	$117,620
Loan Officers	8,970	$62,430
Chief Executives	6,630	$194,360
Financial Analysts	5,330	$78,650

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 Teksaz227 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.