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Business Administration Degree

Associate in Applied Science — Business Administration (AAS-BA) with a Specialization in Business Mgt., Financial Mgt., Customer Success & Sales, HR Mgt., or Social Media.

Benefits

• Earn a specialty career certificate in about 1 year before you progress to complete your AAS—Business Administration degree.
• Enjoy a condensed, accelerated schedule where you can bring your current job knowledge to class interactions as you learn and work toward quick completion.
• Apply concepts and ideas to your job instantly with activities and assignments on real-world applications.

What you'll learn

• Increase your success as a manager or supervisor by utilizing advanced skills in management, human resources, finance, motivation, team building, leadership, change, strategic planning, and much more.
• Critically analyze business and management issues.
• Interpret financial statements to guide business decisions.
• Create a comprehensive marketing plan with advanced understanding of product, price, place, and promotion decisions and target market analysis.
• Discover and assess both local and global economic, technological, competitive, social, and legal trends and their impact on entrepreneurial endeavors.
• Write and speak more effectively in business situations.

Business Administration Degree

• Choose a career specialization after completing career certificate.
• Complete your degree part-time in about 2 years.
• Choose one area of specialization: Business Management, Customer Success & Sales, Financial Management, Human Resources Management, or Social Media.
• Take one class at a time.
• Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Sample course schedule

All courses are online. Please note: Your actual schedule may be different. For more information, see the Business Administration Program page.

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Job outlook and wage information

• http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Associate%27s_Degree%2c_Business_Administration/Salary 
• https://www.onetonline.org/find/quick?s=11-
• First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
• Customer Service Representative
• First-Line Supervisor of Office and Administrative Support Workers
• General and Operations Managers

Next steps

• Already a Harper student? Schedule an individual appointment
• Not yet a Harper student? Attend a Fast Track Info Session
• Ready to become a Harper student? Apply now

For more information about Harper's Fast Track Program, please call us at 847.925.6438 or email us at FTSTUDENT@harpercollege.edu.