Finance at Northern Kentucky University

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

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and approximately 14,764 students attend the school each year. In 2019, 48 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from NKU.

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

NKU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

NKU Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how NKU 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 NKU 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 Focused Finance Graduate Certificate Schools	22
Most Popular Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	235
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	384

Finance Student Demographics at NKU

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

NKU Finance Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at NKU awarded 48 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 56% of these degrees went to men with the other 44% going to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at NKU since its program graduates 14% more women than average.

About 94% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at NKU 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 Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

NKU 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 KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
General and Operations Managers	30,240	$89,750
Financial Managers	6,190	$114,420
Loan Officers	5,300	$67,450
Chief Executives	3,300	$152,670
Financial Analysts	1,710	$69,830

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 Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.