2024 Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota

Business Administration & Management is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 26 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,996 bachelor's degrees in business administration & management during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of business administration & management for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality business administration program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business administration & management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other business administration & management students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt business administration & management students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business administration & management students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Minnesota

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in business administration & management.

10 Top Minnesota Schools for a Bachelor's in Business Administration

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

97 Annual Graduates

$59,473 Median Starting Salary

$20,160 Median Student Debt

It is hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Minneapolis.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities earn a boost of about $13,324 over the typical earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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2

University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

143 Annual Graduates

$51,044 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in business administration & management has to look into University of St Thomas Minnesota. UST MN is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from University of St Thomas Minnesota make $4,895 more than the typical business administration grad.

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3

Capella University
Minneapolis, MN

721 Annual Graduates

$63,636 Median Starting Salary

$33,750 Median Student Debt

It's hard to beat Capella University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Capella University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the large city of Minneapolis.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from Capella University earn $17,487 more than the average business administration grad.

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4

Metropolitan State University
Saint Paul, MN

280 Annual Graduates

$49,095 Median Starting Salary

$29,250 Median Student Debt

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in business administration & management has to check out Metropolitan State University. Metro State is a moderately-sized public university located in the large city of Saint Paul.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from Metropolitan State University earn $2,946 more than the standard business administration graduate.

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5

Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Moorhead, MN

123 Annual Graduates

$45,318 Median Starting Salary

$23,250 Median Student Debt

Located in the suburb of Moorhead, MSU Moorhead is a public university with a small student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program earn around $45,318 for their early career.

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6

Bethel University Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

119 Annual Graduates

$50,180 Median Starting Salary

$24,076 Median Student Debt

Bethel University Minnesota is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Saint Paul.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from Bethel University Minnesota make $4,031 more than the average business administration student.

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7

University of Minnesota - Crookston
Crookston, MN

75 Annual Graduates

$58,238 Median Starting Salary

$27,434 Median Student Debt

Located in the distant town of Crookston, UMN Crookston is a public university with a small student population.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from University of Minnesota - Crookston receive an earnings boost of about $12,089 above the average earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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8

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, MN

150 Annual Graduates

$44,376 Median Starting Salary

$22,350 Median Student Debt

Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Mankato.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program earn around $44,376 in the first couple years of working.

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9

Bemidji State University
Bemidji, MN

179 Annual Graduates

$41,901 Median Starting Salary

$23,500 Median Student Debt

Bemidji State University is a small public university located in the town of Bemidji.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make an average of $41,901 in their early career salary.

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10

College of Saint Benedict
Saint Joseph, MN

26 Annual Graduates

$49,618 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

CSB is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Saint Joseph.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from College of Saint Benedict make $3,469 more than the standard business administration student.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	2,190
Iowa	197	1,658
Kansas	184	2,394
Nebraska	180	1,735
North Dakota	149	529
South Dakota	148	370

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Business Administration & Management Related Rankings by Major

Business Administration & Management is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Business Administration Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	2,533
Operations Management	171
Project Management	130
Interior Design Management	45
Supply Chain Management	38
Science/Technology Management	26
E-Commerce	24
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	16
Organizational Leadership	13

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Finance & Financial Management	1,029
Accounting	1,012
Marketing	916
Human Resource Management	522
General Sales & Marketing	204
International Business	92
Construction Management	86
Entrepreneurial Studies	72
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	69
General Business/Commerce	67

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.