Where can your student actually get into business administration?

• 1713 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's business administration program: 1704 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 9 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: University of Phoenix-Arizona (5,925), Southern New Hampshire University (5,747), Western Governors University (3,333).
• 100 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Berkeley — Business Administration, Fall 2025: 7,102 applied, 323 admitted (5%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Monterey Bay — 96.1% (2,091 applied, 2,009 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Carnegie Mellon University, $160,783.
• Lowest average net price with aid: College of Biblical Studies-Houston, $672 per year.

A business major with no first-year row is not closed to freshmen; it means the campus reported no first-year applicants under that name, so freshmen enter as another business major and apply into that one later. At the UC campuses the rate shown is for the students who applied under that major, and at most campuses the admission decision is made by the campus rather than by the business school. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (100 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.