Business Administration & Management at Northern Illinois University

If you plan to study business administration and management, take a look at what Northern Illinois University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and has a total student population of 16,769. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 143 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.

NIU Business Administration & Management Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration

NIU Business Administration & Management Rankings

Business Administration Student Demographics at NIU

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

NIU Business Administration & Management Master’s Program

Of the 143 students who graduated with a master’s in business administration from NIU in 2021, 66% were men and 34% were women.

Of the students who received a business administration master's degree from NIU, 57% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the business administration master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 36% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	82
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Taxation
• Finance & Financial Management
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods

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 IL, the home state for Northern Illinois University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
General and Operations Managers	122,790	$125,990
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	40,540	$59,170
Management Analysts	39,780	$95,110
Retail Sales Supervisors	38,510	$42,880
Sales Managers	24,800	$131,400

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 Andy McMurray under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.