Finance at Pennsylvania State University - University Park

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

Penn State University Park is located in University Park, Pennsylvania and approximately 46,810 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,541 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University - University Park in 2019, 473 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.

Penn State University Park Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Penn State University Park Finance Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at Penn State University Park 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	8
Most Popular Finance Schools	11
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	131

Finance Student Demographics at Penn State University Park

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Pennsylvania State University - University Park.

Penn State University Park Finance Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at Penn State University Park awarded 473 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 70% of these degrees went to men with the other 30% going to women.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Penn State University Park 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 Pennsylvania State University - University Park with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	38
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	315
International Students	81
Other Races/Ethnicities	28

Penn State University Park 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 PA, the home state for Pennsylvania State University - University Park.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
General and Operations Managers	80,160	$133,480
Financial Managers	17,730	$156,730
Financial Analysts	11,980	$93,870
Loan Officers	10,010	$68,280
Personal Financial Advisors	8,590	$109,250

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 George Chriss under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.