Finance at Mississippi State University

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

Mississippi State is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and has a total student population of 21,974. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 78 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from Mississippi State.

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

Mississippi State Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

Mississippi State Finance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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
Most Popular Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	163
Most Popular Finance Schools	180
Best Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	368
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	393
Best Finance Schools	397
Most Focused Finance Schools	427

Finance Student Demographics at Mississippi State

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

Mississippi State Finance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2018-2019 academic year, 78 finance majors earned their bachelor's degree from Mississippi State. Of these graduates, 68% were men and 32% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at Mississippi State since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

About 86% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at Mississippi State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	67
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Mississippi State 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 MS, the home state for Mississippi State University.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.