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Business Support & Assistant Services at William Rainey Harper College

If you are interested in studying business support and assistant services, you may want to check out the program at William Rainey Harper College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Harper College is located in Palatine, Illinois and approximately 12,199 students attend the school each year.

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

Harper College Business Support & Assistant Services Degrees Available

  • Basic Certificate in Business Support (Less Than 1 Year)
  • Associate’s Degree in Business Support

Online Classes Are Available at Harper College

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? Harper College offers distance education options for business support at the following degree levels:

Harper College Business Support & Assistant Services Rankings

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Business Support Student Demographics at Harper College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the business support majors at William Rainey Harper College.

Harper College Business Support & Assistant Services Associate’s Program

15% Women
31% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 85% of business support associate's degrees went to men and 15% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in business support only graduates about 33% men each year. The program at Harper College may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 52% more women than average.

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The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in business support at Harper College are white. Around 69% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from William Rainey Harper College with a associate's in business support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 9
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Concentrations Within Business Support & Assistant Services

Business Support & Assistant Services majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from William Rainey Harper College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Parts, Warehousing, and Inventory Management Operations 13

Careers That Business Support Grads May Go Into

A degree in business support 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 William Rainey Harper College.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Office Clerks 165,970 $37,220
Customer Service Representatives 120,270 $37,840
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants 67,780 $37,930
Receptionists and Information Clerks 39,890 $30,210
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants 30,140 $58,670

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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