General Business/Commerce at National Louis University

If you plan to study general business/commerce, take a look at what National Louis University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NLU is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 7,402 students attend the school each year. Of the 764 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from National Louis University in 2021, 5 of them were general business/commerce majors.

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

NLU General Business/Commerce Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Business

Online Classes Are Available at NLU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? NLU offers distance education options for general business at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

NLU General Business/Commerce Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks general business programs across the country. The following shows how NLU performed in these rankings.

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 general business major at NLU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Business/Commerce. 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 Online Business & Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools	63
Most Popular Online Business & Commerce Schools	164
	178
Best Value Business & Commerce Schools	189
Most Focused Business & Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools	300
Most Popular Business & Commerce Schools	650

Earnings of NLU General Business Graduates

The median salary of general business students who receive their bachelor's degree at NLU is $37,401. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $42,524 for all general business students.

General Business Student Demographics at NLU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general business majors at National Louis University.

NLU General Business/Commerce Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students earned a bachelor's degree in general business from NLU. About 80% of these graduates were women and the other 20% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general business bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from National Louis University with a bachelor's in general business.

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

NLU also has a doctoral program available in general business. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Human Resource Management
• Hospitality Management
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That General Business Grads May Go Into

A degree in general business can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for National Louis University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Management Analysts	39,780	$95,110
Sales Managers	24,800	$131,400
Administrative Services Managers	16,950	$97,840
Construction Managers	12,730	$95,020

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 TonyTheTiger under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.