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2023 Most Popular Online Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

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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.

The Most Popular Online Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 7 schools in Illinois to see which ones were the most popular online graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named DeVry University - Illinois the most popular online school in Illinois for business administration and management students working on their graduate certificate. DeVry University - Illinois is a very large private for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

Women make up 58% of the business administration majors at the school.

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#2

Lewis University

Romeoville, IL

The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Lewis University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best business administration and management schools in Illinois. Lewis is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Romeoville.

Women make up 86% of the business administration majors at the school.

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#2

Concordia University, Chicago

River Forest, IL

The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Concordia University, Chicago helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best business administration and management schools in Illinois. Concordia University, Chicago is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of River Forest.

Women make up 36% of the business administration majors at the school.

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#4

Elmhurst University

Elmhurst, IL

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Elmhurst University is a great place for business administration and management students working on their online graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Elmhurst, Elmhurst is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Of the 9 students majoring in business administration at Elmhurst, 11% are male and 89% are female.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Western Illinois University is a great place for business administration and management students working on their online graduate certificate. Located in the remote town of Macomb, WIU is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

About 67% of the students majoring in business administration at the school are women while 33% are male.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of St Francis is a great place for business administration and management students working on their online graduate certificate. University of Saint Francis is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Joliet.

Women make up 67% of the business administration majors at the school.

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Lake Forest Graduate School of Management came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Online Business Administration & Management Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. Lake Forest Graduate School of Management is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Lake Forest.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Most Popular Business Administration & Management Colleges 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

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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 7 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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