2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in the Plains States Region

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Finance & Financial Management is the 14th most popular major in the country with 57,778 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, finance and financial management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,475 and had an average of $24,463 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 4,746 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,960 and $25,139 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in finance and financial management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in finance and financial management.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree finance students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in the Plains States Region

1

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Manhattan, Kansas, this large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s finance students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at K -State

2

Capella University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

#22 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Capella University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Plains States Region. Capella University is a large private for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 5 doctorate’s finance degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Capella University Finance & Financial Management Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.