Finance & Financial Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst

If you are interested in studying finance and financial management, you may want to check out the program at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UMass Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 31,642 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 234 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from UMass Amherst.

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.

UMass Amherst Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

UMass Amherst Finance & Financial Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how UMass Amherst performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at UMass Amherst 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
	52
	68

Earnings of UMass Amherst Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMass Amherst is $57,890. This is 18% higher than $48,896, which is the national average for all finance bachelor's degree recipients.

Finance Student Demographics at UMass Amherst

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

UMass Amherst Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 234 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in finance from UMass Amherst. About 74% were men and 26% were women.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at UMass Amherst are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	23
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	165
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	18

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

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Hospitality Management
• 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 MA, the home state for University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
General and Operations Managers	77,580	$135,820
Financial Managers	33,880	$148,300
Financial Analysts	13,400	$105,540
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	12,060	$118,310
Tellers	10,970	$32,860

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 Lion Hirth under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.