Memphis, TN (population: 662,989) has two finance schools within its city limits. Christian Brothers University, the highest ranked school in the city with a finance program, has a total student population of 1,926. It is the 2891st highest ranked school in the USA and the 80th highest in the state of Tennessee (#1 is Vanderbilt University). To learn more about finance programs in Memphis, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of finance professors at Christian Brothers University such as Don Nyonna, and Jeff Schultz.
Finance students from Memphis schools who go on to become financial managers, finance analysts, financial planners, corporate finance consultants, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 495,180 people working as financial managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $113,730. Also, Budget analysts make on average $69,240 per year and there are about 60,970 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Memphis-MS-AR area alone, there are 120 employed budget analysts earning an average salary of $58,870. Financial managers in this area earn $88,910/yr and there are 2,340 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 3.861 out of every 1000 jobs in Memphis are held by financial managers, and 0.206/1000 are held by budget analysts.
Of the 2 finance schools in Memphis, none have 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 finance students, with Christian Brothers University as the lowest, reported at only $12,892/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 |