What Are The Highest Paying Business Degrees?

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If you’re inter­est­ed in a Busi­ness degree, you’re not doing it for char­i­ty. Let’s talk turkey. What are the high­est-pay­ing busi­ness degrees? What degrees are on the hori­zon that are pro­ject­ed to see increased wages and job open­ings in the near future? Where are the best places to earn those degrees, at the cheap­est price, in the short­est amount of time? If you’re ask­ing your­self ques­tions like these, look no fur­ther. At Bach­e­lor’s Degree Cen­ter we’ve done a lot of that leg­work for you, and have pack­aged our find­ings in a num­ber of rank­ings and fea­tures that will help you weigh the options for earn­ing a degree, then point you in the best direc­tion to do so.

We con­sid­er tuition, length of pro­grams, nation­al rank­ings, flex­i­bil­i­ty, deliv­ery for­mats, and more to rec­om­mend the best pro­grams in a num­ber of degree lev­els and dis­ci­plines to aspir­ing stu­dents and pro­fes­sion­als look­ing to sup­ple­ment their expe­ri­ence with high­er edu­ca­tion. So what are the high­est pay­ing busi­ness degrees? We’ve col­lect­ed many of them here in our fea­ture rank­ing on the high­est pay­ing Bach­e­lor’s degrees of the future. This list was cho­sen by comb­ing through a wealth of sources that includ­ed salary track­ing out­lets, the World Eco­nom­ic Forum, the George­town Uni­ver­si­ty Cen­ter on Edu­ca­tion and the Work­force, and many oth­ers. We also took into con­sid­er­a­tion the dif­fer­ent jobs that these degrees qual­i­fied grad­u­ates for.

Some of the top Busi­ness and close­ly relat­ed fields to earn a Bach­e­lor’s degree that cor­re­lates with high wages includ­ed Actu­ar­i­al Sci­ence, Applied Math­e­mat­ics, Sta­tis­tics, Finance and Eco­nom­ics, Account­ing, Finance, and of course tra­di­tion­al Busi­ness degrees.

Once you’ve select­ed a (or some) major(s) that you are inter­est­ed in, make sure to check out the cor­re­spond­ing rank­ings about the degree pro­grams that ful­fill it. We have some great rank­ings that specif­i­cal­ly track some of the high­est pay­ing busi­ness degrees, includ­ing the Top 10 online Busi­ness Bach­e­lor’s degree rank­ing. If you’re look­ing to enter the work­force with a degree that opens employ­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties and earn­ing pow­er, you’ll be aid­ed by an online deliv­ery option that allows you to main­tain a work­ing schedule.

Busi­ness majors may choose con­cen­tra­tions like:

  • inter­na­tion­al business
  • human resource management
  • entre­pre­neur­ship
  • project man­age­ment
  • sup­ply chain management
  • oper­a­tions management
  • pub­lic relations
  • con­sumer behavior
  • finan­cial accounting
  • health­care management
  • audit­ing
  • dig­i­tal marketing
  • e‑commerce
  • mar­ket­ing strategies
  • risk man­age­ment
  • train­ing and development
  • busi­ness law
  • macro­eco­nom­ics
  • finan­cial analysis
  • busi­ness management

From there, you can pur­sue in-demand career paths and man­age­ment posi­tions in the busi­ness field like:

  • per­son­al finan­cial advisor
  • mar­ket research analysts
  • infor­ma­tion sys­tems managers
  • human resources specialists
  • cer­ti­fied pub­lic accountant
  • actu­ar­ies
  • social media managers
  • econ­o­mists
  • mar­ket­ing managers
  • man­age­ment analyst
  • sales man­agers
  • finan­cial managers
  • finan­cial analyst

Some become entre­pre­neurs and start their own busi­ness. The Bureau of Labor Sta­tis­tics (BLS) can give insight into the medi­an salary, aver­age salary, annu­al salary, and earn­ing poten­tial of every busi­ness career. Whether you’re doing finan­cial reports or using your crit­i­cal think­ing skills to lead, high-pay­ing job oppor­tu­ni­ties and career options are at your fin­ger­tips. A grad­u­ate degree such as a mas­ter of busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion can take you even farther.

Per­haps you want to earn a degree that could change your life finan­cial­ly but are afraid you don’t have the mon­ey to pay for it to begin with. If, so, we’ve ranked some of the most afford­able busi­ness degree options in this rank­ing. Final­ly, if you know you’re like­ly to attend a tra­di­tion­al busi­ness degree pro­gram, we’ve ranked the ten best in that area as well.

Glob­al, nation­al and local economies are chang­ing dras­ti­cal­ly, and at light­ning speed. Not all col­lege degrees are cre­at­ed equal, and if your goal is to find the high­est pay­ing busi­ness degrees, you’ve nar­rowed down your options a good deal. If you’re still con­sid­er­ing and try­ing to fig­ure out which of the high­est pay­ing degrees is for you, def­i­nite­ly dou­ble check our rank­ing on them here.

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