Finance & Financial Management at Essex County College

If you plan to study finance & financial management, take a look at what Essex County College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Essex is located in Newark, New Jersey and approximately 6,360 students attend the school each year.

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

Essex Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

Associate’s Degree in Finance

Essex Finance & Financial Management Rankings

Finance Student Demographics at Essex

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Essex County College.

Essex Finance & Financial Management Associate’s Program

47% Women

79% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of finance associate's degrees went to men and 47% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in finance only graduates about 29% women each year. The program at Essex may seem more female-friendly since it graduates 19% more women than average.

Essex does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in finance graduates 52% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Essex County College with a associate's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	1
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Finance & Financial Management

If you plan to be a finance major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Essex County College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	12

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 NJ, the home state for Essex County College.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
General and Operations Managers	43,070	$167,600
Financial Managers	21,340	$175,880
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	15,440	$98,850
Tellers	13,380	$32,950
Financial Analysts	10,560	$106,100

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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