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title: "What can you do with a business administration degree?"
description: "15 careers business administration graduates commonly move into, with BLS median pay, projected growth and entry requirements for each."
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last-updated: "2026-08-23T07:20:09.337Z"
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# What can you do with a business administration degree?

**What the degree involves:** Accounting, operations, strategy, organisational behaviour, and group projects.

Business administration is the generalist degree, and its destination list is the least predictable of any major here. Graduates spread across operations, sales, marketing, finance, HR and procurement, and which one you land in is usually decided by your internships rather than by your coursework.

15 common destinations, ordered most common first rather than highest paid first. 0 of 15 have a master's or a doctoral or professional degree as their BLS typical entry education, and 15 of 15 are projected to grow. A major is a body of study, not a job assignment: these are destinations of people who took the degree, not what the degree entitles anyone to.

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected change | Openings a year | Typical entry education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [General and Operations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-and-operations-manager) | $105,770 | +4.4% | 308,700 | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) | $101,860 | +8.8% | 98,100 | Bachelor's |
| 3 | [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing) | $72,080 | +0.3% | 114,800 | High school |
| 4 | [Human Resources Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-specialist) | $75,940 | +6.2% | 81,800 | Bachelor's |
| 5 | [Project Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/project-management-specialist) | $102,320 | +5.6% | 78,200 | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Market Research Analyst and Marketing Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/market-research-analyst-and-marketing-specialist) | $78,760 | +6.7% | 87,200 | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Accountant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/accountant) | $83,680 | +4.6% | 124,200 | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager) | $148,270 | +4.7% | 49,000 | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager) | $166,790 | +6.6% | 34,300 | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Administrative Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/administrative-services-manager) | $114,130 | +4.6% | 23,200 | Bachelor's |
| 11 | [Purchasing Agent, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/purchasing-agent) | $77,710 | +5.8% | 52,200 | Bachelor's |
| 12 | [Supply Chain Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/supply-chain-manager) | $107,230 | +6.1% | 18,500 | High school |
| 13 | [Training and Development Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-specialist) | $69,280 | +10.8% | 43,900 | Bachelor's |
| 14 | [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager) | $166,570 | +14.8% | 74,600 | Bachelor's |
| 15 | [Human Resources Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-manager) | $149,280 | +5.0% | 17,900 | Bachelor's |

Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Projected change, annual openings and typical entry education are BLS Employment Projections. Occupation descriptions are O\*NET. Nothing on this page is estimated and no figure is generated by an AI model.

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}. Other majors: https://nuecareer.com/careers/majors

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology