Business Administration & Management at Whittier College

If you are interested in studying business administration and management, you may want to check out the program at Whittier College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Whittier is located in Whittier, California and approximately 1,564 students attend the school each year. Of the 76 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Whittier College in 2021, 64 of them were business administration and management majors.

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.

Whittier Business Administration & Management Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration

Whittier Business Administration & Management Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the business administration progam at Whittier compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The business administration major at Whittier is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Business Administration & 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
	239
	572
	592
	635
	749
	916
	1,151
	1,174
	1,194
	1,650

Earnings of Whittier Business Administration Graduates

The median salary of business administration students who receive their bachelor's degree at Whittier is $36,650. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $41,334 for all business administration students.

Business Administration Student Demographics at Whittier

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

Whittier Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 64 students earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Whittier. About 45% of these graduates were women and the other 55% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% more racial-ethnic minorities in its business administration bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	32
White	14
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

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

Concentrations Within Business Administration & Management

If you plan to be a business administration major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Whittier College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Business Administration and Management	64

Related Majors

• 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 CA, the home state for Whittier College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
General and Operations Managers	249,800	$137,640
Office and Administrative Support Worker Supervisors	166,870	$62,560
Retail Sales Supervisors	118,190	$45,310
Management Analysts	104,020	$95,310
Sales Managers	76,950	$134,010

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 Geographer at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.