Business Administration: Associate Degree

Develop Fundamental Business and Management Skills

Build a brighter future — earn your associate degree in Business Administration online in accelerated courses.

Within the associate program, you’ll learn everything you need to get your start in a professional business role from expert faculty. You’ll build your confidence and real-world experience as you study marketing, management, accounting, business law, and more.

Program Benefits:

• Gain core business knowledge and experience
• Build advanced leadership skills
• Learn directly from industry professionals
• Ranked #8 in the Best Online Business Administration Associate degree programs by University HQ

Complete a Real-World Curriculum to Build Experience

The curriculum for the online AS in Business Administration program gives you a running start for the professional role you want. You’ll gain valuable hands-on experience as you study the key areas of business and complete advanced leadership training that enables you to thrive throughout your career. Expert-level instruction and feedback from the professionals who teach the coursework help prepare you to step into a more advanced role.

Course Highlights

• Principles of Marketing
• Dynamics of Management
• Introduction to Financial Accounting

To view the complete list of degree requirements and program courses, visit our online catalog.

What You’ll Learn

With your AS in Business Administration in hand, you can step into a professional role with confidence, knowing you’ll be an asset to the team with your business skills and real-world experience.

By Graduation, You’ll Have Skills to:

• Analyze economic (global and domestic), socio-cultural, political, legal, regulatory, and technological trends affecting any given region of this country, clarifying the likely implications of these trends on small businesses and non-profits as well as large corporations
• Determine market and product/service development opportunities and challenges associated with these trends
• Consider multiple stakeholder perspectives to be considered during the development and implementation of new strategies
• Demonstrate the relationship between business activities, economic outcomes, and the evaluation of business performance, including all ethical considerations
• Understand and be able to use quantitative methods and available technology and applications to address everyday business problems and opportunities
• Understand core business disciplines, including Finance and Accounting, Marketing, Operations, Human Resources, IT, and Legal
• Value collaborative, data-driven, systematic approaches to solving interdisciplinary problems and making ethical decisions
• Communicate focused messages to all stakeholders, as appropriate, via all forms of media, as well as face-to-face
• Recognize diverse personalities, professional backgrounds, personal experiences, and dialogue as fundamental building blocks of high-performing teams