Finance at Purdue University - Main Campus

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

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 44,474 students attend the school each year. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 209 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from Purdue.

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

Purdue Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Purdue Finance Rankings

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

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 Purdue 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	60
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	106
Most Focused Finance Schools	391

Finance Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 209 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from Purdue. Of these graduates, 62% were men and 38% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Purdue since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	18
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	99
International Students	69
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

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

Related Majors

• Financial Planning & Services

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 IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
General and Operations Managers	54,610	$103,370
Financial Managers	7,520	$119,820
Loan Officers	4,850	$67,450
Chief Executives	4,220	$148,730
Personal Financial Advisors	3,740	$111,330

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 Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.