2025 Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in the Plains States Region
74Colleges in the Plains States Region
4,843Finance Degrees Awarded
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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 74 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for finance & financial management students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 4,843 degrees in finance & financial management to qualified students.
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
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Finance & Financial Management in the Plains States Region
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. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
It's difficult to beat Washington University in St Louis if you want to pursue a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,198 schools nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 349 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were approximately 329 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
Creighton University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in finance & financial management. Creighton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Omaha. A Best Colleges rank of #106 out of 2,198 schools nationwide means Creighton is a great university overall.
There were about 186 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Creighton in the most recent data year.
University of Iowa is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in finance & financial management. Iowa is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Iowa City. A Best Colleges rank of #84 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means Iowa is a great university overall.
There were approximately 420 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #77 out of 2,198 schools nationwide means Iowa State is a great university overall.
There were about 240 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means UST MN is a great university overall.
There were approximately 175 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UST MN in the most recent data year.
UNL is a very large public university located in the large city of Lincoln. A Best Colleges rank of #153 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means UNL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 231 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UNL in the most recent data year.
Located in the midsize city of Des Moines, Drake is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 5th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Iowa.
There were roughly 31 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Drake in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Cedar Falls, UNI is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #217 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means UNI is a great university overall.
There were roughly 141 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UNI in the most recent year we have data available.
Mizzou is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #119 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means Mizzou is a great university overall.
There were approximately 71 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available.
SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #196 out of 2,198 colleges nationwide means SLU is a great university overall.
There were about 73 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
Here are some additional great schools for Finance & Financial Management students in the Plains States Region that almost earned our Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in the Plains States Region award.
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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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.
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