2025 Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Michigan
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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 20 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,513 associate degrees in business administration & management to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Associate Degree
The business administration associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in Michigan ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.