Finance at Georgia State University

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

Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 36,360. Of the 1,245 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University in 2021, 260 of them were finance majors.

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

Georgia State Finance Degrees Available

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

Georgia State Finance 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. 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
	7
	8
	40
	46
	154
	192

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in finance from Georgia State. This is the #154 most popular school for finance master’s degree candidates in the country.

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 Bachelor’s Program

The finance program at Georgia State awarded 260 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 65% of these degrees went to men with the other 35% going 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 38% 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

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
Loan Officers	7,790	$75,060
Financial Analysts	7,400	$84,350
Chief Executives	6,260	$218,590

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 Jayingram11 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.