Business Administration & Management is a major offered under the business, management and marketing program of study at Western Kentucky University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in business administration, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Gain supervisory and managerial expertise you can use throughout your career at Southern New Hampshire University. Our business degree program focuses on developing skilled professionals who can apply proven leadership skills in a variety of roles.
In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at WKU was ranked #1,079 on College Factual's Best Schools for business administration list. It is also ranked #7 in Kentucky.
Here are some of the other rankings for WKU.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at WKU paid an average of $1,104 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $450 per credit hour. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $10,802 | $26,496 |
Books and Supplies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
On Campus Room and Board | $10,044 | $10,044 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,086 | $2,086 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Business Administration students who received their bachelor’s degree at WKU took out an average of $26,000 in student loans. That is about the same as the national average of $25,962.
The median early career salary of business administration students who receive their bachelor’s degree from WKU is $36,668 per year. That is 9% lower than the national average of $40,105.
If you’re one of the many students who want the flexibility of distance learning courses, you’ll be happy to hear that WKU offers online option in its business administration bachelor’s degree program. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the WKU Online Learning page.
Women made up around 47.0% of the business administration students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 46.9%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in business administration at WKU in 2019-2020, 15.8% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 37%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 2 |
Black or African American | 19 |
Hispanic or Latino | 8 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 3 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1 |
White | 183 |
International Students | 12 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 6 |
Business Administration & Management students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Business Administration and Management | 162 |
Organizational Leadership | 72 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to business administration and management.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Accounting | 71 |
Business/Managerial Economics | 12 |
Entrepreneurial Studies | 9 |
Finance & Financial Management | 75 |
Hospitality Management | 33 |
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*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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.