Associate Degree in Business Administration

Advance your career with an associate degree in business administration from UW-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County. Our affordable, flexible degree program is a smart investment.

Business administration is a broad discipline that encompasses every aspect of helping an organization meet its objectives. Sometimes it’s applying technical approaches to being strategic and creating efficiencies; other times it’s managing the human elements and motivating a team toward a common purpose.

An associate degree offers you several benefits, including:

• Higher earning potential
• Faster entrance into the workforce
• Increased job security
• Broader job opportunities
• More potential for career advancement
• Seamless transition to a four-year degree

Our business administration program provides a highly-targeted foundation of management, accounting, and economics that is augmented with a broad general education curriculum to build your writing, oral communication, presentation, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.

Coursework in this rigorous program also includes classes in marketing, supply chain management, leadership, and global business. Plus, you’ll complete an internship that immediately converts what you’re learning in class into professional experience. The result is that you’ll be ready to attain career success. Whether your goal is to take the first step in your career, or take your career to the next level, you will have the skills and knowledge you need to match your ambition. You will also learn the fundamentals needed to launch your own business.

You will be qualified to work in fields that include manufacturing, agriculture, travel and tourism, retail, marketing and communications, finance, and more.

Potential careers can include:

• Project manager
• Store manager
• Sales manager and sales support
• Office manager
• Small business owner

Visit UW-Platteville Admissions to find requirements for online admission.