Business Administration & Management at Vanderbilt University

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

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 students attend the school each year.

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.

Vanderbilt Business Administration & Management Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration
• Doctorate Degree in Business Administration

Vanderbilt Business Administration & Management 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.

There were 126 students who received their doctoral degrees in business administration, making the school the #5 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Business Administration Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt Business Administration & Management Master’s Program

Of the 114 students who graduated with a master’s in business administration from Vanderbilt in 2021, 64% were men and 36% were women.

Of the students who received a business administration master's degree from Vanderbilt, 82% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with a master's in business administration.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	93
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Related Majors

• Finance & Financial Management
• Human Resource Management
• Accounting
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Marketing

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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
General and Operations Managers	41,980	$110,580
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	35,680	$56,600
Retail Sales Supervisors	32,290	$43,520
Production and Operating Worker Supervisors	18,480	$59,130
Managers	14,480	$83,010

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 Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.