Bachelor's · New Brunswick, New Jersey
Is Finance and Financial Management Services at Rutgers University-New Brunswick 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 2.8 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $80,670
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $108,159
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $106k (likely $106k – $127k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $68k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NJ
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.8 years (likely 2.6–3.3)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $362k (likely $293k – $410k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.16M (likely $995k – $1.33M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 84%
- 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 / ≤ 2%
- 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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Finance and Financial Management Services at other schools in New Jersey
- Rutgers University-Camden$100,695
- Rutgers University-Newark$100,695
- Seton Hall University$89,994
- Rider University$88,405
- Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus$84,606
- Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus$84,606
- Rowan University$75,697
- New Jersey City University$71,548
- William Paterson University of New Jersey$70,356
- Kean University$65,415