2025 Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in New Hampshire

If you pursue a associate degree in business administration & management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #3 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in New Hampshire 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 1,045 associate degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of business administration & management for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality business administration program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business administration & management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for business administration & management to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business administration & management students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in New Hampshire list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in New Hampshire

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in business administration & management.

Top New Hampshire Schools for an Associate in Business Administration

1

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH

917 Annual Graduates

$46,051 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat Southern New Hampshire University if you wish to pursue an associate degree in business administration & management. SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized suburb of Manchester.

Business Administration & Management associate degree recipients from Southern New Hampshire University receive an earnings boost of approximately $4,824 above the typical earnings of business administration & management majors.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from Southern New Hampshire University

2

Granite State College
Manchester, NH

11 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Granite State College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in business administration & management. GSC is a small public college located in the midsize city of Manchester.More information about a associate in business administration & management from Granite State College

3

Nashua Community College
Nashua, NH

20 Annual Graduates

Nashua Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in business administration & management. Nashua Community College is a small public college located in the small city of Nashua.More information about a associate in business administration & management from Nashua Community College

4

NHTI-Concord's Community College
Concord, NH

26 Annual Graduates

$36,403 Median Starting Salary

NHTI-Concord's Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in business administration & management. Located in the fringe town of Concord, NHTI is a public college with a small student population.

Soon after graduation, business administration associate recipients generally make an average of $36,403 in their early careers.

More information about a associate in business administration & management from NHTI-Concord’s Community College

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	137	1,083
Connecticut	101	193
Rhode Island	70	40
Maine	69	226
Vermont	58	27

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Business Administration & Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Business Administration & Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Business Administration Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	1,045

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Accounting	403
Marketing	131
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	23
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	15
Business/Corporate Communications	4
Hospitality Management	4
General Business/Commerce	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.