Finance at University of Central Florida

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

UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and approximately 68,475 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,932 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Central Florida in 2019, 476 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.

UCF Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

UCF Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how UCF 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 UCF 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	7
Most Popular Finance Schools	10
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	198
Most Focused Finance Schools	228
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	250
Best Finance Schools	265

Finance Student Demographics at UCF

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

UCF Finance Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at UCF awarded 476 bachelor's degrees in 2018-2019. About 77% of these degrees went to men with the other 23% going to women.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at UCF are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% 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 University of Central Florida with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	25
Black or African American	27
Hispanic or Latino	133
White	253
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	22

UCF 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 FL, the home state for University of Central Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
General and Operations Managers	123,800	$112,600
Financial Managers	29,050	$132,850
Chief Executives	20,860	$187,870
Loan Officers	18,000	$78,000
Personal Financial Advisors	14,080	$122,840

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 Breezy Baldwin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.