Finance & Financial Management at Georgia State University

If you plan to study finance and financial management, take a look at what Georgia State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 36,360 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,480 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University in 2021, 260 of them were finance and financial management majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Finance & Financial Management section at the bottom of this page.

Georgia State Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Doctorate Degree in Finance

Georgia State Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at Georgia State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at Georgia State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Finance & Financial Management. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools	176
Most Focused Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools	176

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in finance from Georgia State. This is the #176 most popular school for finance master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of Georgia State Finance Graduates

The median salary of finance students who receive their bachelor's degree at Georgia State is $47,491. This is less than $48,896, which is the national average of all finance majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Finance Student Demographics at Georgia State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the finance majors at Georgia State University.

Georgia State Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 65% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 35% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Georgia State since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its finance bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	58
Black or African American	64
Hispanic or Latino	34
White	69
International Students	17
Other Races/Ethnicities	18

Georgia State also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 1 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Taxation
• International Business
• General Sales & Marketing
• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing

Careers That Finance Grads May Go Into

A degree in finance can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for Georgia State University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
General and Operations Managers	85,920	$113,440
Financial Managers	17,840	$145,920
Tellers	11,680	$30,670
Bill and Account Collectors	9,370	$37,180
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	9,080	$77,000

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 Jayingram11 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.