Outcomes

Finance graduates find professional career opportunities in a wide variety of areas. For the graduating class of 2008, 95 percent of Williams College of Business (WCB) graduates and 94 percent of finance graduates were either employed full-time or enrolled in a graduate program within 90 days of graduation. Average starting salary for 2008 finance graduates: $41,375.

The following are among the positions held by recent finance majors:

• Audit associate, Wells Fargo
• Account manager, Procter & Gamble
• Management trainee, Cintas Corporation
• Staff accountant, Deloitte
• Finance officer/2nd Lt, United States Air Force
• Investment advisor associate, Morgan Stanley-Smith Barney
• Financial analyst, The Kroger Company
• Executive team leader, Target Corporation
• Financial management program, GE Aviation Audit staff, KPMG, LLP

Finance graduates also continue on to graduate schools at such institutions as:

• Boston University
• University of Denver
• Notre Dame
• Stanford University
• University of Virginia
• Wake Forest
• Xavier University