• The business administration career offers a range of job opportunities.homme d"affaires en marche image by Morad HEGUI from Fotolia.com
  
  In the U.S., the college student can seek to earn a bachelor's, master's or doctorate in business administration. The job opportunities varies with each level of education. Business degrees are generally competitive in the workforce, helping college graduates earn a good salary in a competitive sector of the economy. Some graduates will become entrepreneurs, and others will work for private companies.
  
  

Specialty

• Within your typical bachelor's program in business administration, you will have to choose a focus. This emphasis in the undergraduate years will help you target your skills in your career to certain jobs in the business world. For example, Devry University offers 12 specializations in their undergraduate program, including Accounting, Business Information Systems, Finance, Human Resource Management and Sales and Marketing.
  
  

Administrative Services Manager

• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the person with a degree in business administration may work in the field as an administrative services manager. This band of occupations includes lower level and upper level managers. BLS predicts about 12 percent job growth from 2008 to 2018 for all workers in this category. That compares well with a median annual salary of $73,520 in May 2008. You can expect less competition for lower management jobs than higher management jobs, BLS says.
  
  

Business Executives

• The graduate with a degree in business administration may set a career goal to become the executive in a public or private organization. The executives are typically the professionals earning the highest salary in the company. According to the University of California Berkeley, the class of 2008 graduates with a business administration degree found a variety of jobs. Ninety-seven percent of employed graduates worked in for-profit organizations. Examples of job titles included financial analyst, business analyst, accountant, auditor, consultant and banking analyst.