Business Support & Assistant Services at Thomas Edison State University

What traits are you looking for in a business support school? To help you decide if Thomas Edison State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's business support program.

TESU is located in Trenton, New Jersey and has a total student population of 10,495.

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

TESU Business Support & Assistant Services Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Business Support

Online Classes Are Available at TESU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

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

• Associate’s Degree

TESU Business Support & Assistant Services Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Business Support Student Demographics at TESU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the business support majors at Thomas Edison State University.

TESU Business Support & Assistant Services Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of business support associate's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in business support only graduates about 33% men each year. The program at TESU may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 17% more women than average.

TESU does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in business support graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Thomas Edison State University with a associate's in business support.

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

Related Majors

• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing
• Accounting
• Human Resource Management
• Business Administration & Management

Careers That Business Support Grads May Go Into

A degree in business support can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NJ, the home state for Thomas Edison State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Customer Service Representatives	68,260	$40,330
Office Clerks	67,480	$35,450
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants	62,790	$42,600
Receptionists and Information Clerks	54,490	$33,120
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants	17,940	$68,360

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.