General Business/Commerce at George Mason University

If you are interested in studying general business/commerce, you may want to check out the program at George Mason University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 38,541 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Business/Commerce section at the bottom of this page.

GMU General Business/Commerce Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Business
• Master’s Degree in General Business

Online Classes Are Available at GMU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? GMU offers distance education options for general business at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

GMU General Business/Commerce Rankings

The general business major at GMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Business/Commerce. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

General Business Student Demographics at GMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general business majors at George Mason University.

GMU General Business/Commerce Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of general business bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general business bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor's in general business.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	182
Black or African American	38
Hispanic or Latino	92
White	200
International Students	90
Other Races/Ethnicities	43

GMU General Business/Commerce Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 35% of general business master's degrees went to men and 65% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a master's in general business.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	9
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Careers That General Business Grads May Go Into

A degree in general business can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
General and Operations Managers	52,440	$142,000
Management Analysts	49,510	$105,700
Managers	17,280	$134,500
Cost Estimators	9,220	$74,160
Sales Managers	5,790	$170,760

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.