Finance & Financial Management at University of Houston - Downtown

What traits are you looking for in a finance school? To help you decide if University of Houston - Downtown is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's finance program.

UH Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and has a total student population of 15,239. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 146 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from UH Downtown.

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.

UH Downtown Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at UH Downtown

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UH Downtown does offer online courses in finance for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UH Downtown Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at UH Downtown 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 UH Downtown is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Finance & Financial Management. 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 Focused Finance & Financial Management Schools	132
Best Finance & Financial Management Schools	282
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How Much Do Finance Graduates from UH Downtown Make?

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH Downtown is $43,449. This is less than $48,896, which is the national average of all finance majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Finance Student Demographics at UH Downtown

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

UH Downtown Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 146 students earned a bachelor's degree in finance from UH Downtown. About 54% of these graduates were women and the other 46% were men. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at UH Downtown since its program graduates 24% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 43% 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 Houston - Downtown with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	63
White	32
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UH Downtown also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Insurance
• International Business
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• General Business/Commerce

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 TX, the home state for University of Houston - Downtown.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
General and Operations Managers	195,730	$125,870
Tellers	47,520	$28,710
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	43,170	$85,720
Financial Managers	39,580	$149,990
Bill and Account Collectors	28,350	$36,590

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 Nick22aku under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.