Finance at University of Maryland Global Campus

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

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and has a total student population of 60,603. In 2019, 124 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from UMGC.

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

UMGC Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UMGC offers distance education options for finance at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC Finance Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at UMGC 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	120
Most Popular Finance Schools	134
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	289
Best Finance Schools	308
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	511

Finance Student Demographics at UMGC

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

UMGC Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 124 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from UMGC. Of these graduates, 55% were men and 45% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UMGC since its program graduates 15% more women than average.

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 Maryland Global Campus with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	30
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	52
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	23

UMGC 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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland Global Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
General and Operations Managers	48,180	$137,700
Financial Managers	12,550	$152,180
Financial Analysts	5,640	$92,800
Financial Specialists	5,260	$77,440
Loan Officers	5,080	$84,240

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 M Chambers under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.