Business Administration & Management at Harvard University

What traits are you looking for in a business administration school? To help you decide if Harvard University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's business administration program.

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 30,391 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 897 students received their master's degree in business administration.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Business Administration & Management section at the bottom of this page.

Harvard Business Administration & Management Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration
• Doctorate Degree in Business Administration

Online Classes Are Available at Harvard

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Harvard offers distance education options for business administration at the following degree levels:

Harvard Business Administration & Management Rankings

There were 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in business administration, making the school the #92 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Business Administration Student Demographics at Harvard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the business administration majors at Harvard University.

Harvard Business Administration & Management Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 897 students graduated with a master's degree in business administration from Harvard. About 55% were men and 45% were women.

In the business administration master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Harvard University with a master's in business administration.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	152
Black or African American	70
Hispanic or Latino	98
White	407
International Students	110
Other Races/Ethnicities	60

Related Majors

• General Business/Commerce
• Accounting
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Business/Corporate Communications

Careers That Business Administration Grads May Go Into

A degree in business administration can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Harvard University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
General and Operations Managers	77,580	$135,820
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	39,360	$64,560
Retail Sales Supervisors	28,180	$47,710
Management Analysts	22,580	$110,150
Computer and Information Systems Managers	17,820	$156,620

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.