Bachelor's · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $78,080
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $105,564
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $18,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $73k (likely $73k – $78k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $64k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.2 years (likely 2.0–2.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $358k (likely $281k – $421k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.12M (likely $926k – $1.31M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 85%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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📈 Getting ready in high school
Students heading toward business & money majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
AP classes
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Macroeconomics
- AP Statistics
- AP Precalculus or AP Calculus AB
IB Higher Level
- Business Management HL
- Economics HL
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Other majors at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- Dentistry (First professional)$185,225
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$162,817
- Computer Engineering (Master's)$161,999
- Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration (First professional)$146,303
- Computer Science (Master's)$145,488
- Medicine (First professional)$141,568
- Engineering, Other (Master's)$141,008
- Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (Master's)$139,772
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$138,394
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$128,612
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$125,454
- Applied Mathematics (Master's)$123,369
Finance and Financial Management Services at other schools in Minnesota
- University of St Thomas$93,720
- Augsburg University$79,809
- Capella University$78,941
- Winona State University$75,807
- Minnesota State University-Mankato$74,852
- Saint Mary's University of Minnesota$74,642
- Metropolitan State University$74,237
- University of Minnesota-Duluth$73,979
- Rasmussen University-Minnesota$70,838
- Saint Cloud State University$70,259