Bachelor's · Greenville, North Carolina
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at East Carolina University 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 3.1 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $58,724
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $84,129
- 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
- $72k (likely $72k – $96k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $48k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.1 years (likely 2.7–3.6)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $205k (likely $120k – $269k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $773k (likely $597k – $948k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 63%
- 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 East Carolina University
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- Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$98,079
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$90,197
Finance and Financial Management Services at other schools in North Carolina
- Wake Forest University$145,996
- Elon University$103,426
- Queens University of Charlotte$94,719
- Campbell University$78,021
- Appalachian State University$75,396
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$74,965
- Wingate University$67,315
- High Point University$64,748
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro$64,077
- Western Carolina University$58,076