2025 Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Alabama

If you pursue a associate degree in business administration & management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #3 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of business administration & management. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 428 associate degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Jump to one of the following sections: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on business administration & management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other business administration & management students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt business administration & management students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business administration & management students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Alabama list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Alabama

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in business administration & management.

Top Alabama Schools for an Associate in Business Administration

1

Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, AL

192 Annual Graduates

$49,820 Median Starting Salary

Columbia Southern University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in business administration & management. Located in the town of Orange Beach, Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit university with a large student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their associate degree from Columbia Southern University earn $9,642 more than the typical business administration student.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from Columbia Southern University

2

Jefferson State Community College
Birmingham, AL

41 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Jefferson State Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in business administration & management. Jeff State is a moderately-sized public college located in the city of Birmingham.More information about a associate in business administration & management from Jefferson State Community College

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Mississippi	143	207
Georgia	121	1,216
Florida	121	1,549
North Carolina	120	1,731
Arkansas	105	254
Tennessee	102	717
Virginia	97	2,151
West Virginia	92	482
Kentucky	90	521
Louisiana	80	119
South Carolina	77	446

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Rankings in Majors Related to Business Administration

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

Business Administration Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	356
Office Administration	70
Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management	2

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business Support & Assistant Services	200
General Business/Commerce	47
Accounting	40
Hospitality Management	35
Human Resource Management	10
General Sales & Marketing	10
Management Information Systems	1
Marketing	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.