Common Career Paths for Finance Majors

Internship Employers

Top Companies

Wells Fargo, Volvo, Verizon, Truist, TJX, Steel Wave, RxDataScience, Northwest Mutual, Merrill Lynch, First Citizens Group, Fidelity, EY, Deloitte, Bloomberg

Salary Information

Salary Information for 2022-2023
Median Mean
Finance – Elon Class of 2023 $75,000 $73,692
Finance – NACE* 2022 $66,650

*NACE is the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which surveys colleges and employers nationwide to provide annual salary information.

Where are Elon Finance alumni?

Top Companies

  • 2021: Wells Fargo, Vanguard, PwC, KPMG, JP Morgan, Fidelity Investments
  • 2020: Wells Fargo, Vanguard, PwC, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, EY, Deloitte
  • 2019: Wells Fargo, Vanguard, PwC, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Gartner, FactSet, EY
  • 2018: Wells Fargo, Vanguard, PwC, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Gartner, FactSet, EY

Top Fields

Class of 2019-2021 Finance Majors bar graph with bars for sales at 27, operations/production at 4, logistics at 1, HR at 1, GM at 3, finance at 155, consulting at 23, analytics at 13 and accounting at 16.

This is a breakdown of the different fields that Finance alumni work in, with most working in finance, making up around 63% of all Finance graduates.

Top Locations

Map of the United States with the following states highlighted: Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Tennesse, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Finance alumni are in 24 states with a majority being in North Carolina, New York and Massachusetts. These states all have at least 50 Finance graduates working there.

Finance Major

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Finance degree requirements & courses