Memphis, TN (population: 662,989) has ten business and finance schools within its city limits. Rhodes College, the highest ranked school in the city with a business and finance program, has a total student population of 1,673. It is the 123rd highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Tennessee (#1 is Vanderbilt University). To learn more about business and finance programs in Memphis, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of business and finance professors at Rhodes College such as Dee Birnbaum, and Ferron Thompson.
Business and Finance students from Memphis 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 Memphis-MS-AR area alone, there are 450 employed wholesale and retail buyers earning an average salary of $52,670. Business and financial operations employees in this area earn $63,770/yr and there are 23,670 employed.
Memphis lies in Shelby county, which is one of the 26 counties in Tennessee. Overall, the Memphis-MS-AR area has 605,630 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.2% unemployment rate, $18.93/hr average worker wage, and a $39,380 average annual salary. Thus, about 39.081 out of every 1000 jobs in Memphis are held by business and financial operations employees, and 0.735/1000 are held by wholesale and retail buyers.
Of the 10 business and finance schools in Memphis, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, DeVry University-Tennessee comes out as the most expensive ($26,482/yr) for business and finance students, with Southwest Tennessee Community College as the lowest, reported at only $4,338/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Memphis |
| Southaven | MS | 47,625 | 1 | 27.9087 | 11 | 9.7 miles |
| Bartlett | TN | 47,744 | 0 | - | 0 | 12.3 miles |
| Senatobia | MS | - | 1 | 17.4796 | 114 | 34.1 miles |
| Jonesboro | AR | 66,734 | 1 | 24.4204 | 8 | 62.3 miles |
| State University | AR | - | 1 | 57.8251 | 135 | 63.1 miles |