Bachelor's · Notre Dame, Indiana
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at University of Notre Dame 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 1.2 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $152,034
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $172,196
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $19,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $107k (likely $107k – $107k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $134k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 1.2 years (likely 1.1–1.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $1.06M (likely $936k – $1.19M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $2.61M (likely $2.29M – $2.97M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 95%
- 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 Notre Dame
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (First professional)$182,186
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (First professional)$166,604
- Finance and Financial Management Services (First professional)$152,667
- Computational Science (First professional)$145,374
- Applied Mathematics (First professional)$143,935
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$142,970
- Law (First professional)$142,699
- Marketing (First professional)$137,699
- Engineering Science (Master's)$137,274
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$124,557
- Mathematics and Statistics, Other (Bachelor's)$123,663
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$122,821
Finance and Financial Management Services at other schools in Indiana
- University of Indianapolis$86,923
- Purdue University-Main Campus$85,924
- Franklin College$84,829
- Butler University$81,344
- Marian University$77,771
- Valparaiso University$73,880
- Ball State University$70,833
- University of Southern Indiana$70,473
- Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion$70,007
- Indiana Wesleyan University-National & Global$70,007