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Best Value Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Illinois

2023 Best Value Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$26,985 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,181 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, business administration and management students earned 13,124 degrees and certificates from an Illinois school, making the subject the 3rd in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Illinois to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for business administration students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Business Administration & Management

Our analysis found Rasmussen University - Illinois to be the best value school for business administration and management students who want to pursue a associate degree in Illinois. Rasmussen University - Illinois is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Rockford.

Rasmussen University - Illinois undergraduate students pay an average of $13,883 in in-state tuition and fees each year. On average, business administration graduates from Rasmussen University - Illinois take out $26,129 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Rasmussen University - Illinois is ranked #1 for overall quality for business administration in Illinois.

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Out of the 4 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Kankakee Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Kankakee, Kankakee Community College is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Kankakee Community College are $13,200 a year. The average amount in student loans that business administration majors at Kankakee Community College take out while working on their Associate Degree is $16,092.

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#3

McKendree University

Lebanon, IL

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means McKendree University is a great value for business administration and management students working on their associate degree. McKendree is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Lebanon.

McKendree undergraduate students pay an average of $33,050 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 4 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Loyola Chicago are $47,808 a year.

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Best Value Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Business Administration & Management Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 9,389
Ohio 10,313
Indiana 6,950
Wisconsin 5,343

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

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major Annual Graduates
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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).

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