General Business/Commerce is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #9 most popular major 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 8 schools in Louisiana to determine which ones were the best for general business/commerce students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 464 associate degrees in general business/commerce during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Business/Commerce School for Your Associate Degree
The general business associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 combination of various 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 much a school focuses on general business/commerce students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general business/commerce students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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 general business/commerce to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general business/commerce related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general business/commerce students working on their associate degree.
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 General Business/Commerce Associate Degree Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college decision.
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SOWELA Technical Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in general business/commerce. Located in the city of Lake Charles, SOWELA is a public college with a small student population.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the general business program make around $31,941 in the first couple years of their career.
Baton Rouge Community College is a good option for students interested in an associate degree in general business/commerce. BRCC is a fairly large public college located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the general business program earn an average of $32,498 in their early career salary.
South Louisiana Community College is a great choice for individuals pursuing an associate degree in general business/commerce. Located in the city of Lafayette, South Louisiana Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the general business program earn about $25,179 in their early career salary.
It's hard to beat Delgado Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in general business/commerce. Located in the city of New Orleans, Delgado Community College is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Associate recipients from the general business/commerce major at Delgado Community College earn $4,761 above the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Fletcher Technical Community College is a small public college located in the rural area of Schriever.
Associate recipients from the general business/commerce degree program at Fletcher Technical Community College make $3,851 above the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
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).
The general business associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
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