2025 Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in New York
Ranked #3 in popularity,
business administration & management is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 42 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,660 associate degrees in business administration & management during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality 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.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for business administration & management students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools
The business administration school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in New York.