There's strength in our numbers

From exceptional student placement rates to top salaries for our graduates, Tippie's finance department sets a high bar for student success. In fact, as part of our full-time MBA program, the finance department was ranked #1 in the world by the Financial Times.

Tippie finance faculty are leaders in both research and teaching. Our students get hands-on experiences like managing real-world funds. And our graduates are making an impact in the world of business—from leading Fortune 500 companies to influencing major mergers and acquisitions.

With a finance degree from Tippie, you’ll have what you need to succeed. For the latest information on Finance department happenings, check out our award-winning Exchange magazine.

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Silicon Prairie Conference 2023

This year's conference explored the very latest in finance and investment research. Visit our conference page to review papers presented at the conference.

Academic programs

Finance Major

Finance majors experience classes that involve finding, following, managing, and making money. You’ll learn financial and investment fundamentals.

Risk Management & Insurance Major

Risk management & insurance (RMI) professionals help companies and individuals identify risk and address it. The demand for RMI graduates continues to grow. And so will your opportunities.

Master of Finance

Earn an MS degree from a school with a global finance reputation. Gain focused financial expertise, financial analytics proficiency, and hands-on experiences like consulting for clients and managing real-world funds.

PhD in Finance

Working side by side with researchers in finance and teaching in the classroom prepares you for work in this dynamic field.

$71,490

Average starting salary (Master's)

Master's in Finance graduates, 2020-2021

95 %

Finance alums employed or in grad school

December 2020 & May 2021 graduates

$ 770 k

Value of one student-managed fund at Tippie

Krause Fund, January 2022

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Finance faculty

Faculty within the department includes a roster of tenure-track faculty, experienced lecturers, and adjunct faculty from the corporate sector.

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Amrita Nain

Research interests

Tippie faculty research dives deep into areas of risk management, real estate, corporate finance, investments and more.

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Clarence Tow Lectures in Finance

Hear from high-profile researchers from finance present to an audience of faculty, PhD students, and researchers from in and around the University of Iowa.

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# 1

Largest undergraduate major at Tippie

# 4

MBA Finance program in the world

Financial Times, 2017

34,000

Google scholar citations by 16 tenure-track faculty

Department highlights

Hawkinson Institute

Dedicated to getting students career-ready for jobs in investment banking—open to finance and accounting majors.

Vaughan Institute

Preparing students for beneficial careers both in corporate risk management and insurance—one of the state’s largest industries.

Hadley Finance Lab

The Phil Hadley Finance Lab brings together finance students from select courses and programs in a collaborative space dedicated to the study of financial markets.

Henry Fund

An endowed equity portfolio managed by select students in the Master of Finance program, valued at over $23 million.

Krause Fund

Undergraduate students learn to manage a diversified portfolio of stocks through a semester-long Applied Equity Valuation course.

Hart Fund

Students develop expertise in the bond market by defining and executing an investment strategy for a fund dedicated to fixed income and managed by Tippie Master of Finance students.

Recent news

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Tippie ranked a top 20 public business school nationwide

Monday, September 23, 2024
U.S. News & World Report ranks the Tippie College of Business 17th among U.S. public business colleges in its latest Best Colleges ranking, and six departments and programs are ranked in the top 30.
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Tippie NSF grant to help connect academic researchers with venture capitalists

Monday, September 23, 2024
A Tippie College of Business researcher has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how the commercialization of academic research is affected by the geographic location of the institution.
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Hitting close to home

Monday, September 9, 2024
A new Tippie College of Business study finds that insurance companies are more likely to strengthen their climate change risk management strategies when a natural catastrophe hits the state where it’s headquartered then one that hits another state.

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Contact us

Finance Department
S252 Pappajohn Business Building
319-335-0929

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