Finance at University of Southern Mississippi

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

Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and approximately 14,606 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 29 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from Southern Miss.

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

Southern Miss Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Southern Miss Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how Southern Miss performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The finance major at Southern Miss 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
	97
	314
	564
	575
	629

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 Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 48% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Southern Miss since its program graduates 18% more women than average.

About 62% 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 3% 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	2
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	18
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Southern Miss also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2021, 0 student 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 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
Financial Managers	3,670	$101,840
Loan Officers	2,400	$65,360
Personal Financial Advisors	760	$102,820
Chief Executives	730	$112,310

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.