2025 Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in North Dakota

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Business Administration & Management Associate Degree Schools in North Dakota ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 139 associate degrees in business administration & management to qualified students.

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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 include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host 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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools 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 North Dakota list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in North Dakota

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

Top North Dakota Schools for an Associate in Business Administration

1

Rasmussen University - North Dakota
Fargo, ND

16 Annual Graduates

$43,736 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in an associate degree in business administration & management needs to check out Rasmussen University - North Dakota. Rasmussen University - North Dakota is a fairly small private for-profit university located in the midsize city of Fargo.

Business Administration & Management associate degree recipients from Rasmussen University - North Dakota get an earnings boost of about $6,580 above the typical earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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2

North Dakota State College of Science
Wahpeton, ND

30 Annual Graduates

$31,594 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in an associate degree in business administration & management has to take a look at North Dakota State College of Science. Located in the remote town of Wahpeton, North Dakota State College of Science is a public college with a small student population.

After graduating, business administration associate recipients typically make around $31,594 in the first five years of their career.

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3

Williston State College
Williston, ND

41 Annual Graduates

$36,138 Median Starting Salary

Williston State College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in business administration & management. Williston State College is a fairly small public college located in the town of Williston.

Associate graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program earn about $36,138 in their early career salary.

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4

Lake Region State College
Devils Lake, ND

20 Annual Graduates

Lake Region State College is a great choice for individuals interested in an associate degree in business administration & management. Lake Region State College is a small public college located in the town of Devils Lake.More information about a associate in business administration & management from Lake Region State College

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	151	394
Kansas	146	258
Missouri	117	470
Iowa	116	329
Nebraska	98	425
South Dakota	93	62

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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	97
Interior Design Management	41
Organizational Leadership	1

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Accounting	25
General Business/Commerce	18
Business Support & Assistant Services	8
Management Information Systems	5
Entrepreneurial Studies	4
Human Resource Management	3
General Sales & Marketing	2
Marketing	1
Other Business, Management & Marketing	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.