About one in five people who start the CFA process are students, Rob Langrick, chief product advocate at the CFA Institute, told Business Insider. The increase in college students starting the CFA process comes as fewer people overall are taking the exams. CFA Level I sign-ups first dropped in late 2020, given pandemic-induced cancellations and exam deferments. Related storiesIn 2018 and 2019, an average of about 162,000 people took the Level I exam each year. He thought his economics degree didn't cover enough applied finance for the kinds of jobs he wanted to do.

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