Finance & Financial Management at University of the Southwest

If you are interested in studying finance and financial management, you may want to check out the program at University of the Southwest. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USW is located in Hobbs, New Mexico and approximately 904 students attend the school each year. Of the 82 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of the Southwest in 2021, 6 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.

USW Finance & Financial Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Master’s Degree in Finance

Online Classes Are Available at USW

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, USW does offer online courses in finance for the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

USW Finance & Financial Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at USW 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 USW 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
	116
Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools	116
Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools	160
Most Popular Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	574

In 2021, 6 students received their master’s degree in finance from USW. This makes it the #116 most popular school for finance master’s degree candidates in the country.

Finance Student Demographics at USW

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

USW Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 finance students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from USW, about 67% were men and 33% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at USW since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% 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 the Southwest with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

USW Finance & Financial Management Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students earned a master's degree in finance from USW. About 33% of these graduates were women and the other 67% were men.

In the finance master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 23% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

USW also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Other Business, Management & Marketing
• International Business
• Marketing
• Human Resource Management

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 NM, the home state for University of the Southwest.

Occupation	Jobs in NM	Average Salary in NM
General and Operations Managers	13,880	$101,720
Tellers	2,700	$27,050
Financial Managers	2,250	$104,790
Loan Officers	1,470	$63,320
Loan Interviewers and Clerks	1,250	$34,430

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 Bildungsroman under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.