Finance at University of Illinois at Chicago

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

UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and has a total student population of 31,683. In 2019, 221 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from UIC.

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

UIC Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Master’s Degree in Finance

UIC Finance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at UIC 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 UIC 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	55
Best Finance Master’s Degree Schools	59
Most Popular Finance Master’s Degree Schools	99
Most Focused Finance Master’s Degree Schools	128
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	204
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	214
Most Focused Finance Schools	215
Best Finance Schools	235

In 2019, 11 students received their master’s degree in finance from UIC. This makes it the #99 most popular school for finance master’s degree candidates in the country.

Finance Student Demographics at UIC

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

UIC Finance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 221 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in finance from UIC in 2019, 64% were men and 36% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UIC since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% 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 Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	52
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	51
White	78
International Students	24
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

UIC Finance Master’s Program

The finance program at UIC awarded 11 master's degrees in 2018-2019. About 36% of these degrees went to men with the other 64% going to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a master's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UIC 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Chicago.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Financial Managers	40,040	$144,680
Financial Analysts	14,810	$88,760
Loan Officers	12,330	$81,620
Chief Executives	9,650	$230,070

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 Hied5 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.