2025 Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in the Plains States Region
55Colleges in the Plains States Region
4,843Finance Degrees Awarded
$59,187Avg 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 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 55 schools in the Plains States Region 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 4,843 degrees in finance & financial management annually.
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 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
It is hard 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 fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were roughly 349 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent data year. Those finance & financial management students who get their degree from Washington University in St Louis make $43,627 more than the standard finance graduate.
It is difficult to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #45 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were roughly 329 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the finance & financial management degree program at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities make $9,907 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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.
University of Iowa is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in finance & financial management. Iowa is a fairly large public university located in the city of Iowa City. A Best Colleges rank of #80 out of 2,152 schools 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 data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the finance program report average early career earnings of $59,965.
University of St Thomas Minnesota is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in finance & financial management. 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 #106 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UST MN is a great university overall.
There were roughly 175 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UST MN in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the finance & financial management major at University of St Thomas Minnesota get $6,819 above the typical graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Mizzou is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #131 out of 2,152 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 data year.
Creighton is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Omaha. A Best Colleges rank of #128 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Creighton is a great university overall.
There were approximately 186 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Creighton in the most recent data year. Finance & Financial Management degree recipients from Creighton University earn a boost of around $14,621 above the average earnings of finance & financial management majors.
Located in the small city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #88 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Iowa State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 240 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent data year. After graduating, finance degree recipients generally make about $56,974 at the beginning of their careers.
UNL is a very large public university located in the large city of Lincoln. A Best Colleges rank of #207 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UNL is a great university overall.
There were roughly 231 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UNL 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 income of $55,979.
Located in the small city of Cedar Falls, UNI is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #270 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNI is a great university overall.
There were approximately 141 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UNI in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, finance degree recipients generally earn about $52,759 at the beginning of their careers.
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 37 schools 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. Degree recipients from the finance & financial management major at Drake University earn $2,862 more than the standard college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #243 out of 2,152 schools 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 data year. After graduating, finance degree recipients usually make around $60,055 in their early careers.
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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