Finance & Financial Management at University of Southern Mississippi

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

Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and approximately 14,606 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.

Southern Miss Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Finance (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Southern Miss Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The finance major at Southern Miss 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 Southern Miss

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

Southern Miss Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% women. So female students are more repesented at Southern Miss since its program graduates 28% more women than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Southern Miss are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% 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 University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Southern Mississippi. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Finance	29

Related Majors

• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing
• International Business
• Hospitality Management
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Other Business, Management & 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 MS, the home state for University of Southern Mississippi.

Occupation	Jobs in MS	Average Salary in MS
General and Operations Managers	23,850	$77,800
Tellers	4,310	$27,380
Financial Managers	3,670	$101,840
Loan Officers	2,400	$65,360
Loan Interviewers and Clerks	2,140	$32,290

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 Dudemanfellabra under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.