Fresno, CA (population: 490,930) has seven business administration schools within its city limits. Fresno Pacific University, the highest ranked school in the city with a business administration program, has a total student population of 2,668. It is the 326th highest ranked school in the USA and the 24th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles). To learn more about business administration programs in Fresno, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of business administration professors at Fresno Pacific University such as Janita Rawls.
Business Administration students from Fresno schools who go on to become business administration professors, business leaders, business executives, business administrators, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 73,790 people working as business teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $83,840. Also, Business and financial operations employees make on average $65,900 per year and there are about 6,063,670 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Fresno area alone, there are 13,170 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $56,790. Business teachers in this area earn $95,900/yr and there are 150 employed.
Fresno lies in Fresno county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the Fresno area has 323,470 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $40,460 average annual salary. Thus, about 0 out of every 1000 jobs in Fresno are held by business teachers, and 41/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 7 business administration schools in Fresno, only 2 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Central Valley Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,869/yr) for business administration students, with California State University-Fresno as the lowest, reported at only $5,579/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Fresno |
| Hanford | CA | 51,853 | 0 | - | 0 | 32.1 miles |
| Visalia | CA | 127,444 | 7 | 18.6498 | 161 | 40.6 miles |
| Merced | CA | 78,579 | 3 | 29.789 | 150 | 52.4 miles |
| Porterville | CA | 53,185 | 1 | 11.8615 | 42 | 65.3 miles |
| Ceres | CA | 43,443 | 0 | - | 0 | 85.9 miles |
| Sonora | CA | - | 1 | 10.5858 | 57 | 89.4 miles |
| Modesto | CA | 203,882 | 4 | 24.9737 | 137 | 89.9 miles |
| Salida | CA | - | 2 | 26.0837 | 19 | 95.8 miles |