Top Finance PhD Programs

Following are the top leading universities offering Finance PhD Programs:

University of Michigan (Stephen M. Ross School of Business)
- The Ross School of Business Ph.D. program in Finance is one of the top programs in the country.
- Students complete most of the course work for the Ph.D. during the first two years of the program.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School)
- UNC is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report.
- The Finance PhD program at UNC is a four year program designed for students who wish to become Finance faculty members at research universities.

The University of Oklahoma (Michael F. Price College of Business)
- The Price College Finance PhD program is a high-quality program.
- A study in the Journal of Finance Literature (winter 2005) ranked two of its finance faculty among the 50 most prolific authors in the top seven finance journals.
- A study in Financial Management in 2002 ranked it 56th among all finance departments and 26th among finance departments at public universities in terms of Journal of Finance equivalent pages published in top finance journals.

The University of Georgia (Terry College of Business)
- The PhD program in Banking and Finance is designed to prepare students for careers in teaching and research at a major university or as financial researchers.
- Terry is ranked 92nd among all business schools in the world and 45th in the US in the Economist Intelligence Unit Full Time MBA Rankings 2009.

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