2025 Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in Illinois
2Colleges in Illinois
346Master's Degrees
Finance & Financial Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #42 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for finance & financial management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 346 master's degrees in finance & financial management during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on finance & financial management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of finance & financial management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt finance & financial management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized finance & financial management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for finance & financial management students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Finance & Financial Management in Illinois
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in finance & financial management.
Acquire a thorough understanding of the financial landscape and prepare for a high-level corporate role with this specialized online graduate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Obtain a foundation in finance and a range of valuable analytical and technical skills with this specialized online graduate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
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).