Finance & Financial Management at Sam Houston State University

What traits are you looking for in a finance school? To help you decide if Sam Houston State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's finance program.

SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and approximately 21,912 students attend the school each year.

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.

SHSU Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

SHSU Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The finance major at SHSU 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.

Finance Student Demographics at SHSU

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

SHSU Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% women. So female students are more repesented at SHSU since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at SHSU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 Sam Houston State University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	67
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

Concentrations Within Finance & Financial Management

If you plan to be a finance major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Sam Houston State University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	77
Banking and Financial Support Services	31

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing
• Business/Managerial Economics
• International Business
• Management Information Systems

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 TX, the home state for Sam Houston State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
General and Operations Managers	195,730	$125,870
Tellers	47,520	$28,710
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents	43,170	$85,720
Financial Managers	39,580	$149,990
Bill and Account Collectors	28,350	$36,590

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 Bigguill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.