General Business Administration and Management at East Carolina University

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

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 297 business administration majors received their bachelor's degree from ECU.

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

ECU General Business Administration and Management Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

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? ECU offers distance education options for business administration at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

ECU General Business Administration and Management Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks business administration programs across the country. The following shows how ECU performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The business administration major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Business Administration and Management. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
	23
	40
	95
	98
	101
	136
	197
	487
	497
	522
	760
	867

In 2021, 232 students received their master’s degree in business administration from ECU. This makes it the #99 most popular school for business administration master’s degree candidates in the country.

Business Administration Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU General Business Administration and Management Bachelor’s Program

Of the 297 students who earned a bachelor's degree in General Business Administration and Management from ECU in 2020-2021, 55% were men and 45% were women.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in business administration at ECU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	29
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	223
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	20

ECU General Business Administration and Management Master’s Program

Of the 232 business administration students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from ECU, about 57% were men and 43% were women.

Of the students who received a business administration master's degree from ECU, 76% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	24
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	176
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

ECU also has a doctoral program available in business administration. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Supply Chain Management

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 NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
General and Operations Managers	54,330	$131,600
Management Analysts	16,970	$98,730
Managers	11,990	$121,500
Construction Managers	11,220	$109,520
Sales Managers	6,790	$147,690

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.