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    Business Teachers, Postsecondary

    Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research.

    Median pay
    $99,080
    Growth
    +5.9%
    Faster than average
    Openings a year
    7,600
    Typical education
    Doctoral or professional degree

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $47,180
    Median
    $99,080
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $209,470
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    82,150 people work in this occupation.

    What business teachers, postsecondary do

    Job Zone 5: Extensive preparation

    Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

    Most need a graduate degree, such as a master's, PhD, MD or JD.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    17 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    64 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    37 / 100
    Social (S) · strongest
    90 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    47 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    46 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

    Interest code SIE. Compare it with yours

    What you'd do

    Training and Teaching Others
    92
    Getting Information
    86
    Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
    79
    Working with Computers
    78
    Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
    77
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    74
    Thinking Creatively
    74
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    73
    Coaching and Developing Others
    68
    Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
    68
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Speaking
    • Instructing
    • Active Listening
    • Learning Strategies
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Writing
    • Active Learning
    • Critical Thinking
    • Monitoring
    • Complex Problem Solving

    Knowledge

    • English Language
    • Education and Training
    • Administration and Management
    • Economics and Accounting
    • Mathematics
    • Law and Government
    • Computers and Electronics
    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Personnel and Human Resources
    • Communications and Media

    Abilities

    • Oral Expression
    • Speech Clarity
    • Written Comprehension
    • Written Expression
    • Oral Comprehension
    • Deductive Reasoning
    • Inductive Reasoning
    • Speech Recognition
    • Near Vision
    • Problem Sensitivity

    Work styles

    • Intellectual Curiosity
    • Dependability
    • Social Orientation
    • Achievement Orientation
    • Integrity
    • Cooperation
    • Attention to Detail
    • Initiative
    • Innovation
    • Leadership Orientation

    Also called

    Accountancy Professor · Accounting Instructor · Accounting Professor · Accounting Teacher · Adjunct Business Professor · Adjunct Instructor · Adjunct Lecturer · Advertising Teacher · Assistant Professor · Associate Professor

    Career pathway

    From your interests to business teachers, postsecondary

    Interests that fit the work, the career, majors that lead there and colleges whose graduates in those majors earn the most. Hover or focus a step to follow one path.

    1. Interests

    2. This career

      • Business Teachers, Postsecondary$99,080 median pay

    3. Majors

    4. Colleges

    College Scorecard program outcomes

    Colleges with strong outcomes

    Programs that lead to this career, ranked by what their graduates earn four years after finishing. Earnings are for graduates who received federal aid.

    1. 1Washington University in St Louis WUSTL logo
      Washington University in St Louis WUSTL

      Saint Louis, MO · Finance and Financial Management Services · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      $108,590
      4 yrs after
      $185,551
      Median debt
      $20,750
    2. 2Carnegie Mellon University logo
      Carnegie Mellon University

      Pittsburgh, PA · Business Administration, Management and Operations · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      $97,419
      4 yrs after
      $160,783
      Median debt
      $19,000
    3. 3University of Notre Dame-South Bend IN logo
      University of Notre Dame-South Bend IN

      Notre Dame, IN · Finance and Financial Management Services · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      $141,543
      4 yrs after
      $160,313
      Median debt
      $19,500
    4. 4Georgetown University-DC logo
      Georgetown University-DC

      Washington, DC · International Business · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      Not reported
      4 yrs after
      $159,452
      Median debt
      $13,500
    5. 5
      New York University NYU

      New York, NY · Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      $111,101
      4 yrs after
      $158,559
      Median debt
      $13,250
    6. 6University of Pennsylvania UPENN logo
      University of Pennsylvania UPENN

      Philadelphia, PA · Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      $125,147
      4 yrs after
      $153,279
      Median debt
      $11,250
    7. 7Boston College logo
      Boston College

      Chestnut Hill, MA · Finance and Financial Management Services · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      $92,127
      4 yrs after
      $147,746
      Median debt
      $18,650
    8. 8Wake Forest University logo
      Wake Forest University

      Winston-Salem, NC · Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods · Bachelor's

      1 yr after
      Not reported
      4 yrs after
      $146,608
      Median debt
      Not reported

    Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard field-of-study data, 2025. Programs with few graduates are not listed.

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

    What business teachers, postsecondary may need beyond a degree, where a license is required, and what the work pays in each state.

    Certifications

    Core certifications employers recognise for this work.

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    Training

    Programs of study that prepare people for this work. Showing 12 of 49.

    • Accounting
    • Accounting and Business/Management
    • Accounting and Computer Science
    • Accounting and Finance
    • Actuarial Science
    • Auditing
    • Business Administration and Management, General
    • Business and Innovation/Entrepreneurship Teacher Education
    • Business Statistics
    • Business/Commerce, General
    • Business/Corporate Communications, General
    • Business/Corporate Communications, Other

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.