Business Administration & Management at Northern Kentucky University

If you plan to study business administration and management, take a look at what Northern Kentucky University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NKU is located in Highland Heights, Kentucky and has a total student population of 16,211. Of the 2,289 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Northern Kentucky University in 2021, 370 of them were business administration and management majors.

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

NKU Business Administration & Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration

NKU Business Administration & Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the business administration progam at NKU 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 business administration major at NKU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Business Administration & Management. 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
	118
Best Value Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	340
	578

Earnings of NKU Business Administration Graduates

The median salary of business administration students who receive their bachelor's degree at NKU is $42,995. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 4% higher than the national average of $41,334 for all business administration bachelor's degree recipients.

Business Administration Student Demographics at NKU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the business administration majors at Northern Kentucky University.

NKU Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 370 business administration students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from NKU, about 54% were men and 46% were women.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in business administration at NKU 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 Northern Kentucky University with a bachelor's in business administration.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	25
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	296
International Students	13
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

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

Related Majors

• Business/Corporate Communications
• Marketing
• Finance & Financial Management
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Accounting

Careers That Business Administration Grads May Go Into

A degree in business administration can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for KY, the home state for Northern Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
General and Operations Managers	30,240	$89,750
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	20,930	$50,800
Retail Sales Supervisors	17,020	$38,060
Production and Operating Worker Supervisors	12,060	$61,760
Mechanic, and Repairer Supervisors	7,310	$63,290

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 Samvscat under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.