Kansas City, MO (population: 454,520) has nine business administration schools within its city limits. Rockhurst University, the highest ranked school in the city with a business administration program, has a total student population of 3,029. It is the 1885th highest ranked school in the USA and the 57th highest in the state of Missouri (#1 is Webster University). To learn more about business administration programs in Kansas City, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of business administration professors at Rockhurst University such as Shahid Ali, Therese Butler-Jones, Gary DeRigne, Michelle Dockhorn, George Ferguson, and Brian Fitzpatrick.
Business Administration students from Kansas City 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 Kansas City-KS area alone, there are 55,380 employed business and financial operations employees earning an average salary of $61,220. Business teachers in this area earn $62,130/yr and there are 490 employed.
Kansas City lies in Jackson county, which is one of the 39 counties in Missouri. Overall, the Kansas City-KS area has 988,100 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $20.79/hr average worker wage, and a $43,240 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.494 out of every 1000 jobs in Kansas City are held by business teachers, and 56.043/1000 are held by business and financial operations employees.
Of the 9 business administration schools in Kansas City, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, DeVry University-Missouri comes out as the most expensive ($26,101/yr) for business administration students, with Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods as the lowest, reported at only $2,865/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Kansas City |
| North Kansas City | MO | - | 1 | 17.668 | 0 | 1.0 miles |
| Parkville | MO | - | 1 | 24.2346 | 91 | 8.8 miles |
| Independence | MO | 110,030 | 5 | 14.6026 | 91 | 10.9 miles |
| Blue Springs | MO | 57,147 | 1 | 22.3674 | 5 | 16.6 miles |
| Lees Summit | MO | - | 1 | 10.817 | 19 | 16.7 miles |
| Lenexa | KS | 49,185 | 2 | 9.677 | 29 | 17.0 miles |
| Olathe | KS | 125,326 | 3 | 26.6113 | 75 | 21.2 miles |
| Lawrence | KS | 92,060 | 4 | 30.1334 | 36 | 39.7 miles |
| Atchison | KS | - | 2 | 13.325 | 58 | 43.3 miles |
| Saint Joseph | MO | 76,371 | 4 | 37.3685 | 160 | 46.6 miles |
| Ottawa | KS | - | 1 | 45.4994 | 36 | 52.1 miles |
| Topeka | KS | 124,629 | 5 | 27.0429 | 163 | 61.5 miles |
| Sedalia | MO | - | 2 | 20.9991 | 46 | 76.7 miles |
| Fort Scott | KS | - | 1 | 19.5238 | 38 | 89.0 miles |
| Iola | KS | - | 1 | 14.0674 | 83 | 94.6 miles |