Baltimore, MD (population: 632,410) has fifteen business and finance schools within its city limits. Johns Hopkins University, the highest ranked school in the city with a business and finance program, has a total student population of 20,383. It is the 19th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Maryland.
Business and Finance students from Baltimore schools who go on to become business and finance professionals, event planners, web developers, SEOs, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,063,670 people working as business and financial operations employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,900. Also, Wholesale and retail buyers make on average $55,480 per year and there are about 116,900 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Baltimore-Towson area alone, there are 1,030 employed wholesale and retail buyers earning an average salary of $55,210. Business and financial operations employees in this area earn $69,840/yr and there are 70,900 employed.
Baltimore lies in Baltimore county, which is one of the 16 counties in Maryland. Overall, the Baltimore-Towson area has 1,259,140 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $23.40/hr average worker wage, and a $48,670 average annual salary. Thus, about 56.310 out of every 1000 jobs in Baltimore are held by business and financial operations employees, and 0.818/1000 are held by wholesale and retail buyers.
Of the 15 business and finance schools in Baltimore, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Maryland Institute College of Art comes out as the most expensive ($32,712/yr) for business and finance students, with The Community College of Baltimore County as the lowest, reported at only $5,035/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Baltimore |
| Dundalk | MD | 66,755 | 0 | - | 0 | 6.2 miles |
| Towson | MD | 55,491 | 3 | 39.9767 | 128 | 6.9 miles |
| Linthicum | MD | - | 1 | 23.7302 | 4 | 7.0 miles |
| Catonsville | MD | 43,590 | 0 | - | 0 | 7.5 miles |
| Severn | MD | 47,939 | 0 | - | 0 | 11.9 miles |
| Ellicott City | MD | 73,232 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.0 miles |
| Owings Mills | MD | - | 2 | 12.2029 | 18 | 12.3 miles |
| Arnold | MD | - | 2 | 15.7612 | 101 | 19.4 miles |
| Annapolis | MD | - | 2 | 37.2711 | 28 | 23.1 miles |
| Bowie | MD | 52,071 | 1 | 51.6519 | 53 | 24.5 miles |
| Lanham | MD | - | 1 | 24.0199 | 10 | 26.7 miles |
| Olney | MD | 41,213 | 1 | 14.4703 | 35 | 27.2 miles |
| Adelphi | MD | - | 1 | 12.6602 | 95 | 28.3 miles |
| Aspen Hill | MD | 53,748 | 0 | - | 0 | 29.1 miles |
| Takoma Park | MD | - | 1 | 13.9013 | 66 | 30.8 miles |
| Montgomery Village | MD | 43,313 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.2 miles |
| Rockville | MD | 63,567 | 2 | 20.9627 | 85 | 32.7 miles |
| North Bethesda | MD | 48,357 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.7 miles |
| Capitol Heights | MD | - | 1 | 32.1418 | 6 | 33.1 miles |
| Gaithersburg | MD | 59,755 | 2 | 35.5602 | 8 | 34.5 miles |
| Bethesda | MD | 59,221 | 1 | 7.29955 | 10 | 34.8 miles |
| Germantown | MD | 71,619 | 0 | - | 0 | 35.8 miles |
| Potomac | MD | 42,836 | 0 | - | 0 | 36.7 miles |
| McLean | VA | - | 1 | 24.682 | 8 | 39.6 miles |
| North East | MD | - | 1 | 7.7142 | 47 | 41.3 miles |
| Falls Church | VA | - | 1 | 13.4471 | 18 | 41.7 miles |
| Alexandria | VA | 147,786 | 6 | 19.205 | 130 | 42.0 miles |
| Frederick | MD | 59,727 | 2 | 38.8415 | 121 | 44.2 miles |
| Annandale | VA | 60,438 | 3 | 18.9314 | 107 | 45.8 miles |
| York | PA | - | 10 | 26.4605 | 240 | 46.3 miles |