Bachelor's · Saint Paul, Minnesota
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at University of St Thomas worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 3.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $73,762
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $100,667
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $21,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $134k (likely $134k – $139k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $59k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.9 years (likely 3.5–4.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $227k (likely $149k – $302k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $939k (likely $746k – $1.15M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 74%
- 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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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 St Thomas
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$149,456
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$123,235
- Computer Software and Media Applications (Master's)$119,571
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$118,888
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Graduate certificate)$116,675
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$116,216
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$108,187
- Computer Science (Bachelor's)$107,938
- Mechanical Engineering (Master's)$107,807
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$106,308
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (Master's)$105,153
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Graduate certificate)$100,515
Finance and Financial Management Services at other schools in Minnesota
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities$98,279
- 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