Finance at George Mason University

If you plan to study finance, take a look at what George Mason University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 37,316 students attend the school each year. In 2019, 188 finance majors received their bachelor's degree from GMU.

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

GMU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

GMU Finance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks finance programs across the country. The following shows how GMU 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 GMU 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
Most Popular Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	72
Most Popular Finance Schools	77
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	125
Best Finance Schools	136
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	328
Most Focused Finance Schools	366

Finance Student Demographics at GMU

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

GMU Finance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 54% of finance bachelor's degrees went to men and 46% went to women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at GMU since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% 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 George Mason University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	48
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	26
White	66
International Students	28
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

GMU also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2019, 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 VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
General and Operations Managers	52,440	$142,000
Financial Managers	15,180	$164,030
Loan Officers	10,140	$80,440
Financial Analysts	8,550	$97,990
Chief Executives	5,760	$228,540

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 Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.