Finance & Financial Management at University of Maryland Global Campus

If you plan to study finance and financial management, 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 approximately 58,526 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 135 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 & Financial Management section at the bottom of this page.

UMGC Finance & Financial Management 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 & Financial Management 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 & 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
Best Value Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Schools	132

Earnings of UMGC Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMGC is $57,557. This is 18% higher than $48,896, which is the national average for all finance bachelor's degree recipients.

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 & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 135 students earned a bachelor's degree in finance from UMGC. About 44% of these graduates were women and the other 56% were men. 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 14% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% 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	8
Black or African American	25
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	64
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

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

Related Majors

• International Business
• General Sales & Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• General Business/Commerce
• Marketing

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
Tellers	6,220	$32,330
Financial Analysts	5,640	$92,800
Financial Specialists	5,260	$77,440

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.