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2023 Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

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Finding the Best Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate School for You

Finance & Financial Management is the #45 most popular major in the country with 5,784 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 17 schools in the Plains States Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Finance & Financial Management program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Colleges.

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

Our 2023 rankings named Kansas State University the most popular school in the Plains States Region for finance and financial management students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Manhattan, K -State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Of the 31 students majoring in finance at K -State, 68% are male and 32% are female.

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#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Iowa is a very large public school located in the small city of Iowa City.

About 13% of the students majoring in finance at the school are women while 87% are male.

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#3

Creighton University

Omaha, NE

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Creighton University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Located in the city of Omaha, Creighton is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

About 55% of the students majoring in finance at the school are women while 45% are male.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Missouri University of Science and Technology helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular finance and financial management schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the remote town of Rolla, Missouri University of Science and Technology is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Of the 5 students majoring in finance at Missouri University of Science and Technology, 80% are male and 20% are female.

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#5

Park University

Parkville, MO

Out of the 17 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Park University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Parkville, Park University is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

About 50% of the students majoring in finance at the school are women while 50% are male.

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Out of the 17 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dakota Wesleyan University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the town of Mitchell, Dakota Wesleyan University is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Women make up 25% of the finance majors at the school.

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for finance and financial management students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. North Dakota State University is a fairly large public school located in the city of Fargo.

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With a ranking of #8, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for finance and financial management students working on their graduate certificate. SMU MN is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Winona.

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University of Missouri - Columbia came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public school with a very large student population.

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for finance and financial management students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. UNL is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lincoln.

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Best Finance & Financial Management Colleges by State

Explore the best finance and financial management schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 200
Minnesota 28
Iowa 75
Kansas 74
Nebraska 60
North Dakota 3
South Dakota 8

Finance & Financial Management is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 17 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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