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Clemson University: 4.5 percent of graduates earned degrees in General Business Administration and Management
Published 06/01/23
Of the 7,516 degrees handed out in that school year, 4.5 percent were to General Business Administration and Management students.
The university enrolled 27,341 students for 2021-2022, including 21,653 in undergraduate programs and 5,688 in graduate programs.
As of 2021, 37.9% of Americans ages 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, including 14.3% who also obtained a graduate or professional degree, according to Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
In the United States, undergraduate degrees with a business focus are among the most popular. In the academic year 2018–19, nearly one in five degrees were granted in business.
The five highest interest majors are business, nursing, psychology, biology, medicine/pre-medicine.
Degrees Awarded at Clemson University for 2021-2022
| Program | Bachelor's degrees awarded | Graduate and professional degrees awarded | Certificates awarded | Total degrees and certificates awarded | Percent of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 288 | 97 | - | 385 | |
| Industrial Engineering | 160 | 65 | 10 | 235 | |
| General Civil Engineering | 122 | 59 | - | 181 | |
| Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 104 | 62 | 1 | 167 | |
| Engineering | - | 116 | 19 | 135 | |
| Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 86 | 33 | 3 | 122 | |
| General Computer Engineering | 77 | 18 | - | 95 | |
| Chemical Engineering | 70 | 4 | - | 74 | |
| Materials Engineering | 44 | 15 | - | 59 | |
| Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering | 27 | 24 | - | 51 | |
| Agricultural Engineering | 18 | 3 | - | 21 | |
| Manufacturing Engineering | - | - | - | - | |
| Systems Engineering | - | - | - | - | |
| Ceramic Sciences and Engineering | - | - | - | - | |
| General Engineering | - | - | - | - | |
| Engineering total | 996 | 496 | 33 | 1,525 | 20.3% |
| General Business Administration and Management | 338 | 197 | 19 | 554 | |
| General Marketing Management | 262 | - | - | 262 | |
| Accounting | 129 | 86 | - | 215 | |
| General Finance | 213 | - | - | 213 | |
| Human Resources Development | - | 43 | - | 43 | |
| General Human Resources Management | - | 18 | - | 18 | |
| Real Estate | - | 14 | - | 14 | |
| General Construction Management | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | |
| Special Products Marketing Operations | - | - | 4 | 4 | |
| Operations Management and Supervision | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Mobility Management | - | - | - | - | |
| Marketing | - | - | - | - | |
| Organizational Leadership | - | - | - | - | |
| Selling Skills and Sales Operations | - | - | - | - | |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations | - | - | - | - | |
| Non-Profit/Public Organizational Management | - | - | - | - | |
| Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services total | 943 | 365 | 29 | 1,337 | 17.8% |
| General Education | - | 153 | - | 153 | |
| School Counseling and Guidance Services | - | 68 | 33 | 101 | |
| Instructional Technology | - | - | 97 | 97 | |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas | - | - | 82 | 82 | |
| Elementary Education and Teaching | 55 | 21 | - | 76 | |
| Reading Teacher Education | - | 49 | 22 | 71 | |
| Secondary Education and Teaching | 39 | 9 | - | 48 | |
| General Educational Leadership and Administration | - | 25 | 17 | 42 | |
| General Special Education and Teaching | 30 | 11 | - | 41 | |
| Early Childhood Education and Teaching | 26 | 9 | - | 35 | |
| Agricultural Teacher Education | 13 | 15 | - | 28 | |
| Science Teacher Education | 9 | - | - | 9 | |
| Curriculum and Instruction | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Education | - | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Learning Sciences | - | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Mathematics Teacher Education | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Intermediate Education and Teaching | - | - | - | - | |
| Industrial Arts Teacher Education | - | - | - | - | |
| Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Other | - | - | - | - | |
| Trade and Industrial Teacher Education | - | - | - | - | |
| Education total | 173 | 368 | 251 | 792 | 10.5% |
| General Biological Sciences | 311 | 117 | - | 428 | |
| Biochemistry | 69 | 3 | - | 72 | |
| Animal Genetics | 59 | 2 | - | 61 | |
| Microbiology | 52 | 3 | - | 55 | |
| Human/Medical Genetics | - | 9 | - | 9 | |
| Toxicology | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Animal Physiology | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Entomology | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Epidemiology | - | - | - | - | |
| Genome Sciences/Genomics | - | - | - | - | |
| Biological and Biomedical Sciences total | 491 | 145 | - | 636 | 8.5% |
| Registered Nursing | 231 | - | - | 231 | |
| Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences | 113 | - | 44 | 157 | |
| Nursing Science | - | 44 | - | 44 | |
| Public Health | - | 9 | - | 9 | |
| Medical Informatics | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Pre-Pharmacy Studies | 6 | - | - | 6 | |
| Nursing Practice | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| International Public Health | - | - | - | - | |
| Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies | - | - | - | - | |
| Pre-Dentistry Studies | - | - | - | - | |
| Medical Science/Scientist | - | - | - | - | |
| Nursing Administration | - | - | - | - | |
| Health Professions and Related Programs total | 350 | 65 | 44 | 459 | 6.1% |
| General Economics | 119 | 18 | - | 137 | |
| General Political Science and Government | 119 | - | - | 119 | |
| Criminology | 60 | - | - | 60 | |
| General Sociology | 49 | - | - | 49 | |
| General Anthropology | 13 | - | - | 13 | |
| Social Sciences | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Econometrics and Quantitative Economics | - | - | - | - | |
| Social Sciences total | 360 | 22 | - | 382 | 5.1% |
| General Animal Sciences | 125 | - | - | 125 | |
| Food Science | 71 | 6 | - | 77 | |
| Agricultural Economics | 34 | - | - | 34 | |
| Aquaculture | 33 | - | - | 33 | |
| General Agricultural Business and Management | 31 | - | - | 31 | |
| Plant Sciences, General | - | 29 | - | 29 | |
| Soil Sciences, Other | 16 | - | - | 16 | |
| Horticultural Science | 9 | - | - | 9 | |
| Food Science and Technology, Other | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| General Horticulture Operations | 3 | - | - | 3 | |
| Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields | - | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Agricultural and Extension Education Services | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Pre-Veterinary Studies | - | - | - | - | |
| Livestock Management | - | - | - | - | |
| Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields total | 322 | 43 | 1 | 366 | 4.9% |
| General Psychology | 315 | - | - | 315 | |
| Community Psychology | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Industrial and Organizational Psychology | - | 6 | - | 6 | |
| Psychology | - | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Applied Behavior Analysis | - | - | - | - | |
| Psychology total | 315 | 16 | - | 331 | 4.4% |
| General Computer and Information Sciences | 145 | 90 | - | 235 | |
| Information Science | 26 | - | - | 26 | |
| General Computer Programming | - | 8 | - | 8 | |
| Informatics | - | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services total | 171 | 102 | - | 273 | 3.6% |
| General Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management | 129 | 43 | 2 | 174 | |
| Sport and Fitness Administration | - | 53 | - | 53 | |
| Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies | - | - | - | - | |
| Parks, Recreation, Leisure, Fitness, and Kinesiology total | 129 | 96 | 2 | 227 | 3% |
| Architecture | 82 | - | 10 | 92 | |
| Architectural and Building Sciences | - | 40 | - | 40 | |
| Landscape Architecture | 13 | 3 | - | 16 | |
| Urban, Community and Regional Planning | - | 15 | - | 15 | |
| Environmental Design | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Architecture and Related Services total | 95 | 63 | 10 | 168 | 2.2% |
| Industrial and Product Design | 96 | 3 | - | 99 | |
| Visual and Performing Arts | 26 | - | - | 26 | |
| Art Studies | 15 | 6 | - | 21 | |
| Media Studies | 10 | - | - | 10 | |
| General Studio Arts | - | - | - | - | |
| Visual and Performing Arts total | 147 | 9 | - | 156 | 2.1% |
| Packaging Science | 73 | 2 | - | 75 | |
| Construction Engineering Technology | 53 | 12 | - | 65 | |
| Engineering-Related Fields, Other | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Engineering/Engineering-related Technologies/Technicians total | 126 | 15 | - | 141 | 1.9% |
| Rhetoric and Composition | 64 | - | - | 64 | |
| General English Language and Literature | 43 | 13 | - | 56 | |
| Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing | - | 9 | - | 9 | |
| English Language and Literature/Letters total | 107 | 22 | - | 129 | 1.7% |
| Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management | - | 47 | - | 47 | |
| Natural Resources/Conservation, General | 35 | - | - | 35 | |
| Forest Resources Management | 24 | - | - | 24 | |
| Forest Sciences and Biology | - | 7 | - | 7 | |
| Natural Resources and Conservation total | 59 | 54 | - | 113 | 1.5% |
| General Chemistry | 23 | 18 | - | 41 | |
| General Physics | 18 | 11 | - | 29 | |
| General Earth Science | 10 | - | - | 10 | |
| Geological and Earth Sciences | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Optics/Optical Sciences | - | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Chemistry | - | - | - | - | |
| Physical Sciences total | 51 | 37 | - | 88 | 1.2% |
| General Mathematics | 55 | 28 | - | 83 | |
| Mathematics and Statistics total | 55 | 28 | - | 83 | 1.1% |
| Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics | 36 | - | - | 36 | |
| Spanish Language and Literature | 21 | - | - | 21 | |
| General Foreign Languages and Literatures | 20 | - | - | 20 | |
| Sign Language Interpretation and Translation | - | - | - | - | |
| Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics total | 77 | - | - | 77 | 1% |
| Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services, Other | 1 | 21 | 21 | 43 | |
| Family and Community Services | - | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences total | 1 | 25 | 22 | 48 | 0.6% |
| Public Administration | - | 40 | 5 | 45 | |
| Public Policy Analysis, General | - | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Public Administration and Social Service Professions total | - | 42 | 5 | 47 | 0.6% |
| General History | 41 | 5 | - | 46 | |
| History total | 41 | 5 | - | 46 | 0.6% |
| Sports Communication | 25 | - | - | 25 | |
| Communication and Media Studies | - | 13 | - | 13 | |
| Speech Communication and Rhetoric | - | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Health Communication | - | - | - | - | |
| Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs total | 25 | 18 | - | 43 | 0.6% |
| Philosophy | 13 | - | - | 13 | |
| Religious Studies | 8 | - | - | 8 | |
| Philosophy and Religious Studies total | 21 | - | - | 21 | 0.3% |
| Women's Studies | 14 | - | - | 14 | |
| African-American Studies | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies total | 15 | - | - | 15 | 0.2% |
| General Historic Preservation and Conservation | - | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
| Behavioral Sciences | - | - | 6 | 6 | |
| Computational Science | - | - | - | - | |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies total | - | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0.2% |
| Disaster Management | - | - | - | - | |
| Homeland Security | - | - | - | - | |
| Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services total | - | - | - | - | - |
| General Studies | - | - | - | - | |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities total | - | - | - | - | - |
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