Get started on your search for a bachelor's degree in business administration with this best value ranking. If you're looking for a small school where you can benefit from more personal attention and get to know your classmates better, this is the list for you. You can tap into your professors' experience and knowledge to help you get the most of your business school education, while relaxing on an intimate campus and getting customized advising along the way.
Ranking Methodology
For this ranking, we used information from College Navigator to determine the top small colleges in America for a degree in business or management. College Navigator is a subset of the National Center for Education Statistics and provides a wealth of data related to all the accredited postsecondary institutions in the country. We used the website's built-in filters to search only for schools that:
1) Offer an undergraduate degree in general business/business administration
2) Have an admission rate of 50% or less (an indicator of selectivity)
3) Are small in size (3,000 students or fewer)
From these more than 100 results, we selected the 50 with the lowest overall net prices. Unlike standard tuition rates, "net price" values provide an overall assessment of what a student could pay in a single year, taking into account additional expenses, financial aid, and scholarships as well as base tuition.
We included these final 50, which boast an ideal combination of quality, selectivity, and affordability on comfortably small campuses, in the ranking below. Enjoy!
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College Navigator
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About the Author:
Iris Stone began her writing career when she started working as a freelance writer and researcher in 2011. Her freelance business soon took off and she now owns and operates a writing and editing firm that works with clients all across the country. Despite the time it takes to run a business she still does much of the writing herself, and her work has included a variety of content related to education policy, colleges and universities, academic programs, and graduates' careers. Her interests actually span far beyond writing, and she is currently studying to be a physicist! Check out her Google+ Profile.
