The 50 colleges that score highest for Finance on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington University in St Louis | MO | Median earnings $185,551 · 156 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | New York University | NY | Median earnings $145,946 · 794 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | Boston University | MA | Median earnings $108,412 · 713 graduates last year · 15% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | Tulane University of Louisiana | LA | Median earnings $129,850 · 311 graduates last year · 12% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | Georgetown University | DC | Median earnings $152,744 · 223 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Boston College | MA | Median earnings $147,746 · 426 graduates last year · 13% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $110,240 · 254 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $106,153 · 225 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | Median earnings $107,207 · 580 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | Northeastern University | MA | Median earnings $113,620 · 986 graduates last year · 20% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA | Median earnings $143,372 (college-wide) · 36 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Median earnings $147,736 · 297 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | Carnegie Mellon University | PA | Median earnings $160,783 · 185 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Median earnings $160,313 · 297 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | University of California-Berkeley | CA | Median earnings $144,599 · 425 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | Emory University | GA | Median earnings $136,731 · 496 graduates last year · 19% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | William & Mary | VA | Median earnings $111,366 · 201 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | Rice University | TX | Median earnings $89,718 (college-wide) · 67 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Bentley University | MA | Median earnings $113,795 · 284 graduates last year · 30% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Texas A&M University-College Station | TX | Median earnings $112,319 · 314 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $144,654 · 608 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | VA | Median earnings $139,103 · 389 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | Washington and Lee University | VA | Median earnings $121,699 · 109 graduates last year · 18% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | University of Southern California | CA | Median earnings $109,128 · 1,346 graduates last year · 23% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | Median earnings $85,493 · 56 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Median earnings $135,874 · 418 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | CA | Median earnings $110,902 · 748 graduates last year · 15% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | GA | Median earnings $106,155 · 392 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | University of Richmond | VA | Median earnings $103,856 · 249 graduates last year · 26% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Median earnings $132,075 · 417 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | University of Maryland-College Park | MD | Median earnings $110,648 · 389 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | Bucknell University | PA | Median earnings $130,990 (field-wide) · 22 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | Lehigh University | PA | Median earnings $127,210 · 218 graduates last year · 14% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | University of Colorado Boulder | CO | Median earnings $86,441 · 1,147 graduates last year · 16% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | IL | Median earnings $119,978 · 297 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Wake Forest University | NC | Median earnings $145,996 · 133 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | Ohio State University-Main Campus | OH | Median earnings $97,986 · 922 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | University of Rochester | NY | Median earnings $102,583 · 184 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | Brandeis University | MA | Median earnings $108,405 · 110 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | Franklin and Marshall College | PA | Median earnings $101,895 · 78 graduates last year · 13% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | Indiana University-Bloomington | IN | Median earnings $105,583 · 2,407 graduates last year · 32% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | George Washington University | DC | Median earnings $126,638 · 74 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | NJ | Median earnings $100,695 · 490 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | Villanova University | PA | Median earnings $131,996 · 231 graduates last year · 11% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | University of California-Santa Barbara | CA | Median earnings $96,078 · 38 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | PA | Median earnings $95,087 · 248 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | Santa Clara University | CA | Median earnings $118,737 · 173 graduates last year · 12% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | Skidmore College | NY | Median earnings $93,229 · 104 graduates last year · 14% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | PA | Median earnings $96,714 · 533 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | Syracuse University | NY | Median earnings $120,274 · 214 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees |
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