What Finance and Financial Management Services Graduates Earn

Median earnings at 1, 4, and 5 years (College Scorecard)

Nothing on this page is a survey response or a recruiter's claim: the $63,018 year-one median and the $90,733 year-five median for Finance and Financial Management Services come from federal earnings records pooled across 800 bachelor's programs. The headline median weights programs by graduates counted (48,981 at year one); the second column is the unweighted median program, printed so the method stays visible.

From $63,018 in the first year to $90,733 in the fifth, earnings grow 44% ($27,715). For scale, the median bachelor's field in the Scorecard file grows from $45,010 to $65,763 over the same span, so this field's early-career slope is gentler than typical.

By Pell status, the year-one medians for Finance and Financial Management Services are $61,491 (received Pell) and $69,508 (did not), $8,017 apart. The split is a reminder that a field median averages over very different starting points; the institution a student picks inside the field moves their personal figure more than the field label does.

Inside its own CIP family, Finance and Financial Management Services ranks 4 of 19 published bachelor's fields by five-year earnings; the family median at that horizon is $78,466. Its closest sibling is Management Information Systems and Services at $92,753, above this field's $90,733. Family comparisons strip out the broad field effect and leave the specific program choice exposed.

Ranked across all 182 published fields, Finance and Financial Management Services stands number 31 by five-year earnings and number 47 by first-year earnings, and number 63 from the lowest median debt. Those three ranks together are the field's fingerprint: high earn rank with a low debt rank is the combination students are actually shopping for, and this field's spread between them is 32 places.

The debt side of the same degree

Across the 417 programs that report debt for Finance and Financial Management Services, the median graduate owes $19,753. Set beside the $63,018 year-one median, the debt is 31% of first-year gross earnings, about 3.8 months of pay before tax. Repaid on the standard 10-year schedule at 6.52%, it costs $224 monthly and $7,186 in interest. The student loan payoff calculator replays that schedule with your numbers, and the college ROI calculator weighs the full cost against the earnings table above.

Where graduates of this field earn the most

The national median hides the real spread: inside Finance and Financial Management Services, individual programs post five-year medians far from $90,733 in both directions. Below are the highest, filtered to programs with 30 or more graduates counted at five years; University of Pennsylvania sits first at $228,201.

A median is a middle graduate, not a promise: half of University of Pennsylvania's counted graduates earn less than $228,201. Weigh any program here against its own price using the net price estimator and the degree cost calculator.

Two more facts about the shape of this field: the five highest-paying programs in the table account for only 1.1% of the 46,558 graduates counted at five years, so the top of the table is a thin slice and not the field's center; and the leading program's five-year median of $228,201 sits 152% above the national field median of $90,733. Its graduates' debt figure is not published, one of the gaps this page leaves visible rather than filling.