San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has eighteen business and finance schools within its city limits. St Marys University, the highest ranked school in the city with a business and finance program, has a total student population of 3,893. It is the 405th highest ranked school in the USA and the 12th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about business and finance programs in San Antonio, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of business and finance professors at St Marys University such as Richard Bauer, Edward Cole, John Drabier, Matt Gilley, Jefferey Johnson, and Dana Kerr.
Business and Finance students from San Antonio schools who go on to become business and finance professionals, event planners, web developers, SEOs, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 6,063,670 people working as business and financial operations employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,900. Also, Wholesale and retail buyers make on average $55,480 per year and there are about 116,900 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Antonio area alone, there are 530 employed wholesale and retail buyers earning an average salary of $46,400. Business and financial operations employees in this area earn $59,370/yr and there are 40,000 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 47.787 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by business and financial operations employees, and 0.630/1000 are held by wholesale and retail buyers.
Of the 18 business and finance schools in San Antonio, only 4 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Hallmark College of Technology/Hallmark College of Aeronautics comes out as the most expensive ($37,478/yr) for business and finance students, with San Antonio College as the lowest, reported at only $3,422/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |