Business Administration Degree at Aquinas College
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The mission of the Business Department at Aquinas College is to prepare each student
for a career of service to organizations, community, and family through the development
of content knowledge and skill competencies within an ethical framework and grounded
in the liberal arts tradition.
At Aquinas you will develop a broad knowledge of business operations and gain targeted skills in your specific field, such as customers, markets, finance, operations, strategy, business policy, and communications.
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Career Preparation based on leadership

Student Research
Check out the current and past research that Aquinas students do with faculty to further the world's knowledge.Read More about Student Research

Leadership Development Program
Learn more about how you can develop professional skills that will prepare you for your career.

Student Clubs & Activities
You can learn through volunteer activities and field trips to globally recognized, fortune 500 businesses.

Student Profiles
Students love Aquinas for its small classes, personal attention, access to faculty, and hands-on experiences.

Alumni Profiles
AQ grads are thankful for the small class sizes that allow them to form personal relationships with professors.
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES
Quick Facts: Administrative Services Managers | |
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2023 Median Pay | $104,900 per year $50.44 per hour |
Typical Entry-Level Education | Bachelor's degree |
Work Experience in a Related Occupation | Less than 5 years |
On-the-job Training | None |
Number of Jobs, 2023 | 397,300 |
Job Outlook, 2023-33 | 6% (Faster than average) |
Employment Change, 2023-33 | 23,400 |
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Aquinas business students have incredible opportunities to connect with amazing companies for future career possibilities. Options like working with the Detroit Pistons for marketing, finances or human resources. More opportunities are working with Google, Meijer, and other large, well-known, corporations. Each of these also offer chances to intern and develop a larger wide set of skills and network your personal brand.
Aquinas business grads have gone on to graduate school at Columbia Business School, Tufts, Harvard, University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and Thunderbird, to name a few.
For information on jobs, internships and more at Aquinas visit Handshake.
To learn more about careers, make an appointment with the AQ Advantage Center.
Business Administration News
This past spring semester, Aquinas students Austin Tucker, Wyatt Snitzer, Haruka Terakawa, and Claire Hines developed Stride Guard, a shoe insert that tracks impacts to help prevent injuries. Their idea won them the $3,000 top prize in the Final Pitch Competition of the MWest Challenge. On Thursday, April 3, Aquinas welcomed back alumnus Hugh Ingalls ’14 for our annual Fireside Chat Series. For the past four years, Aquinas Professor Mark O’Toole has assigned a special project to his fall classes: students break into groups of four to five to design a marketing plan and collect at least $10,000 in donations to Mel Trotter Ministries. For the past three years, Aquinas Professor Mark O’Toole has assigned a special project to his fall classes. As they learn about the fundamentals of business, they also put those lessons into practice for a good cause: gathering donations for Mel Trotter Ministries, a nonprofit organization at the... We visited Aidan Donnelly at his sustainability internship with Frederik Meijer Gardens on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 to see how Aquinas students put what they learn in class into action.
Aquinas Students Turn Setbacks into a Product and Win the MWest Challenge
Aquinas College Catches up with Hugh Ingalls ’14 in Alumni Fireside Chat Series
Aquinas Students Turn Business Lessons into Fundraising Success for Mel Trotter Ministries
Aquinas Students Gather Truckloads of Donations for Mel Trotter Ministries
A Day In The Life of a Sustainability Intern at Frederik Meijer Gardens