Finance at Sam Houston State University

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

SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and has a total student population of 21,213. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 97 students received a bachelor's degree in finance from SHSU.

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

SHSU Finance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

SHSU Finance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the finance progam at SHSU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 SHSU 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	144
Most Popular Finance Schools	158
Most Focused Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	341
Best Finance Schools	415

Finance Student Demographics at SHSU

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

SHSU Finance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 97 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from SHSU in 2018-2019, 63% were men and 37% were women. The typical finance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 30% women. So female students are more repesented at SHSU since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in finance at SHSU are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 Sam Houston State University with a bachelor's in finance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	22
White	52
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

SHSU also has a doctoral program available in finance. In 2019, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Banking and Financial Support Services

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 TX, the home state for Sam Houston State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
General and Operations Managers	195,730	$125,870
Financial Managers	39,580	$149,990
Financial Analysts	26,850	$94,980
Loan Officers	19,950	$83,910
Personal Financial Advisors	10,830	$110,820

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 Bigguill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.