2025 Best Finance & Financial Management Schools in Kentucky
6Colleges in Kentucky
563Finance Degrees Awarded
$59,187Avg Early-Career Salary
Ranked #14 in popularity, finance & financial management is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of finance & financial management. Combined, these schools handed out 563 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. We derive our Best Overall Finance & Financial Management School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the finance degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Kentucky is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in finance & financial management. UK is a very large public university located in the city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were approximately 298 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, finance degree recipients usually earn around $58,422 in their early careers.
It's difficult to beat University of Louisville if you want to pursue a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the city of Louisville, UofL is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #421 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UofL is a great university overall.
There were roughly 69 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the finance program state that they receive average early career wages of $52,167.
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.
Western Kentucky University is a good option for students pursuing a degree in finance & financial management. Located in the city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #851 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means WKU is a great university overall.
There were about 87 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the finance program earn an average of $44,355 in their early career salary.
It is hard to beat Bellarmine University if you wish to pursue a degree in finance & financial management. Bellarmine U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Louisville. This university ranks 7th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 15 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Bellarmine U in the most recent data year.
Eastern is a fairly large public university located in the town of Richmond. This university ranks 12th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 36 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Eastern in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the finance program make around $41,328 in their early career salary.
Located in the town of Murray, Murray State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 16th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 41 finance & financial management students who graduated with this degree at Murray State in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the finance program report average early career earnings of $43,320.
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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Your choice of finance & financial management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Finance & Financial Management School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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