2024 Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in Washington
7Colleges in Washington
915Finance Degrees Awarded
$51,007Avg Early-Career Salary
Finance & Financial Management is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #14 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for finance & financial management students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 915 degrees in finance & financial management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Finance & Financial Management School
Your choice of finance & financial management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for finance & financial management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Finance & Financial Management Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in Washington ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Finance & Financial Management in Washington
The schools below may not offer all types of finance degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Washington - Seattle Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #37 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UW Seattle is a great university overall.
There were about 303 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UW Seattle in the most recent year we have data available. Finance & Financial Management degree recipients from University of Washington - Seattle Campus get an earnings boost of around $8,167 over the typical earnings of finance & financial management majors.
Any student who is interested in finance & financial management has to look into Seattle University. Seattle U is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Seattle. A Best Colleges rank of #155 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Seattle U is a great university overall.
There were about 100 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Seattle U in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the finance program earn about $51,016 for their early career.
Washington State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the distant town of Pullman, Wazzu is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #175 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Wazzu is a great university overall.
There were roughly 252 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Wazzu in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the finance program earn around $50,289 in the first couple years of their career.
Any student pursuing a degree in finance & financial management has to look into Central Washington University. Located in the distant town of Ellensburg, CWU is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 7th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were approximately 68 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at CWU in the most recent data year.
WWU is a large public university located in the city of Bellingham. This university ranks 5th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were roughly 46 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at WWU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the finance program state that they receive average early career earnings of $41,065.
Located in the fringe town of Cheney, EWU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 51 colleges for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were approximately 67 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at EWU in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, finance degree recipients generally make about $40,949 in their early careers.
UW Tacoma is a small public university located in the medium-sized city of Tacoma. This university ranks 49th out of 51 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were about 69 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UW Tacoma in the most recent data year. Those finance & financial management students who get their degree from University of Washington - Tacoma Campus receive $8,167 more than the standard finance grad.
Managing and quantifying money is at the heart of the online bachelor's degree in finance at SNHU. You'll learn the fundamentals of investments, address key managerial issues, examine ethics from every angle and build the skillset to be a player in the multidimensional business marketplace.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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