Finance & Financial Management at Virginia Commonwealth University

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

VCU is located in Richmond, Virginia and has a total student population of 29,070. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 55 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from VCU.

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.

VCU Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

VCU Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The finance major at VCU 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.

Finance Student Demographics at VCU

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

VCU Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 33% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at VCU since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	18
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• Real Estate
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Accounting
• 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 VA, the home state for Virginia Commonwealth University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
General and Operations Managers	52,440	$142,000
Financial Managers	15,180	$164,030
Tellers	10,980	$31,220
Loan Officers	10,140	$80,440
Financial Analysts	8,550	$97,990

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 user:mentes under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.