Waterford, MI (population: 75,011) has seventeen banking schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Michigan State University, the highest ranked school in this group with a banking program, has a total student population of 47,071. It is the 45th highest ranked school in the USA and one of the highest in the state .
Banking students from Waterford schools who go on to become bankers, tellers, investment bankers, financial managers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 153,720 people working as financial specialists alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $64,810. Also, Business and financial operations employees make on average $65,900 per year and there are about 6,063,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills Metropolitan area alone, there are 56,590 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $68,800. Financial specialists in this area earn $66,890/yr and there are 2,570 employed.
Waterford lies in Oakland county, which is one of the 62 counties in Michigan. Overall, the Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills Metropolitan area has 1,060,520 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.7% unemployment rate, $22.33/hr average worker wage, and a $46,440 average annual salary. Thus, about 2.424 out of every 1000 jobs in Waterford are held by financial specialists, and 53.357/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 17 banking schools with a 100-mile radius of Waterford, only 10 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Ohio Business College comes out as the most expensive ($20,377/yr) for banking students, with Terra State Community College as the lowest, reported at only $5,709/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Waterford |
West Bloomfield Township | MI | 71,474 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.2 miles |
Auburn Hills | MI | - | 2 | 5.8467 | 61 | 8.2 miles |
Bloomfield Township | MI | 41,179 | 0 | - | 0 | 8.2 miles |
Rochester Hills | MI | 68,883 | 1 | 23.9536 | 51 | 11.7 miles |
Farmington Hills | MI | 78,114 | 1 | 0.013626 | 0 | 11.8 miles |
Novi | MI | 54,922 | 1 | 10.8219 | 16 | 13.5 miles |
Southfield | MI | 75,151 | 8 | 20.9451 | 96 | 14.1 miles |
Royal Oak | MI | 56,742 | 1 | 28.1635 | 4 | 16.0 miles |
Madison Heights | MI | - | 2 | 27.3656 | 17 | 18.9 miles |
Ferndale | MI | - | 1 | 11.6923 | 4 | 19.0 miles |
Sterling Heights | MI | 127,075 | 1 | 28.9156 | 3 | 19.1 miles |
Warren | MI | 133,470 | 6 | 23.1927 | 131 | 21.8 miles |
Westland | MI | 75,634 | 1 | 16.8264 | 4 | 23.5 miles |
Dearborn Heights | MI | 49,619 | 0 | - | 0 | 23.6 miles |
Detroit | MI | 901,160 | 11 | 18.127 | 476 | 24.4 miles |
Clinton Township | MI | - | 2 | 7.68254 | 63 | 24.5 miles |
Canton | MI | 94,521 | 12 | 27.6578 | 316 | 24.6 miles |
Dearborn | MI | 82,453 | 3 | 34.0016 | 184 | 25.9 miles |
Saint Clair Shores | MI | 59,971 | 1 | 11.5792 | 3 | 28.1 miles |
Flint | MI | 109,751 | 7 | 25.2834 | 318 | 29.2 miles |
Taylor | MI | 58,134 | 1 | 26.0382 | 3 | 30.4 miles |
Ann Arbor | MI | 113,880 | 5 | 27.5859 | 183 | 31.5 miles |
Port Huron | MI | - | 5 | 17.4204 | 129 | 53.5 miles |
East Lansing | MI | 45,575 | 2 | 19.4594 | 4 | 55.7 miles |
Lansing | MI | 112,579 | 5 | 18.9833 | 209 | 59.1 miles |
Saginaw | MI | 54,388 | 2 | 17.8155 | 7 | 59.7 miles |
Sylvania | OH | - | 2 | 12.7922 | 52 | 67.2 miles |
Spring Arbor | MI | - | 1 | 60.8655 | 91 | 67.2 miles |
University Center | MI | - | 2 | 19.8891 | 261 | 69.0 miles |
Toledo | OH | 288,207 | 7 | 20.3804 | 301 | 69.9 miles |