2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Connecticut

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Business/Commerce is the 16th most popular major in the country with 56,779 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $45,206 and had an average of $24,177 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 777 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,102 and $21,916 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,555 and $23,609 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general business/commerce. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general business/commerce program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut bachelor’s degree general business students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Connecticut

1

University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

#15 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Bridgeport. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut list. Bridgeport, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general business degrees to 25 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UBridgeport General Business/Commerce Report

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

$45,069 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,078 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. UCONN is a large public school situated in Storrs, Connecticut. It awarded 36 bachelors’s general business degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Connecticut General Business/Commerce Report

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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