$732 Per credit*
Jump Start Your Career With an Associate Degree in Business
The NYU SPS DAUS Associate Degree in Business delivers a flexible program that provides you foundational knowledge in business.
The program’s highly practical courses are taught by business practitioners who understand the dynamic trends in industry. With a curriculum designed for career advancement across the business industry, this two-year degree program will prepare students for job prospects via a solid foundation in business skills, business administration, business administration, interpersonal communication, management theories, and business principles.
Jump Start Your Career With an Associate Degree in Business
60 credits
Online | Onsite | Hybrid
Fall | Spring | Summer
Full-time | Part-time
30 credits
*See NYU Bursar site for more info.
10.0%
job growth in this degree area
$54,900
median associate salary
100%
of our grads employed within 6 months
17,954
alumni of NYU SPS DAUS division

Why This Degree?
Real World Experiences
Where You’ll Go
From SPS, a wide range of career paths are open to graduates.
Companies hiring for this degree
- Walmart
- Marriott International
- Accenture
- Randstad
- TMX Finance
- Aaron's
- Walgreens Boots Alliance
- Elevance Health
- Bank of America
- Siemens
- Verizon Communications
- Humana
- Hudson Group
- CDM Smith
- Carter's
- Best Buy
- The Hertz Corporation
- Aston Carter
- Goodwill
- Sherwin-Williams
Top roles for this degree
- Accountants
- Customer Service
- Store Managers
- Operations Managers
- Project Managers
- Sales
- Human Resources
- Recruiters
- Technical Support
- Operations Supervisors
The above data is sourced from Lightcast
Frequently Asked Questions
The benefits of earning an AAS in business can include increasing your earning potential, gaining greater job security, having additional career options, and/or advancing in your current career.
NYU SPS offers special pricing for its associate degrees that make them comparable to public community colleges in New York. If you are eligible for Pell or TAP, your tuition could be low or no cost. Generous financial aid and scholarships are available for those who qualify and seamless credit transfer can help you to earn your degree faster, reducing cost and time to a degree.
In addition, starting with this low cost of an associate degree puts you half-way toward earning a bachelor’s degree, thereby reducing the cost of earning that credential.
A business associate degree at DAUS is an interdisciplinary business administration program that introduces the social sciences and humanities as well as providing the foundational courses in a traditional business degree, such as accounting, finance, and marketing.
GED or High School Diploma: Identifying what level of education you have completed to date will assist us in better understanding your academic accomplishments as we help you to plan your future.
Recommendations: For DAUS associate degree in business programs, at least one letter of recommendation from an academic or professional source is suggested.
Four Short Essay Questions: Tell us what makes you the right fit for our learning community, and how you sense you will benefit from an associate degree in business. Be sure to answer the prompts given in the online application form. Each answer should be a minimum of 250 words.
To qualify for guaranteed admission, associate degree in business candidates must have maintained a 2.8 GPA in high school and meet one of the following criteria:
NYC public school graduate
United States active service member or veteran
An associate of arts (AA) focuses on a liberal arts-based general education, while an associate of applied science (AAS) hones in on business and science.
Our associate degree programs provide you with requisite skills to enter the entry-level business positions or can be used to move onto a four year bachelor's degree program.