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Business Teachers, Postsecondary

US occupation · SOC 25-1011

Job titles people report: Accounting Instructor, Accounting Professor, Associate Professor, Business Administration Professor, Business Instructor, Business Professor, Instructor, Management Professor, Marketing Professor, Professor

Pay and outlook

Median annual wage, May 2025
$99,080
Half earn more, half earn less
Middle half earn
$64,150 – $141,710
25th to 75th percentile
People employed, May 2025
82,150
Wage and salary jobs (OEWS)
Projected change, 2025–35
+5.9%
At or above the all-jobs rate (3.5% to under 7%)
Openings a year (projected)
7,600
New jobs plus replacing people who leave
Typical education to enter
Doctoral or professional degree
BLS
  • All figures are for the United States as a whole. Pay varies a lot by state and city.
  • Wages are for everyone working in the occupation in May 2025, at every career stage. They are not starting salaries or figures for new graduates.
  • Growth and openings are BLS projections for 2025–35. They are estimates, not promises. Openings include jobs that open up when people retire or change occupation, not just new jobs.

What the work involves

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.

Main tasks

  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as financial accounting, principles of marketing, and operations management.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional organizations and conferences.
  • Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.
  • Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
  • Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.

Description and tasks from the O*NET® 31.0 Database.

Getting in

Typical education to enter (BLS)
Doctoral or professional degree
O*NET Job Zone 5
Extensive preparation
Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Interests it suits

The strongest of the six O*NET interest types for this occupation, highest first. The short glosses are ours.

  • Social: helping, teaching and caring for people
  • Investigative: research, analysis and solving problems with ideas
  • Enterprising: leading, persuading and making business decisions

Fields of study that lead here

From the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk, which links 49 programmes to this occupation. A link means the programme prepares people for this kind of work. It doesn't mean the programme is required, or that it's the only route.

Business

  • Business/Commerce, General
  • Business Administration and Management, General
  • Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management
  • Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management
  • Operations Management and Supervision
  • Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management
  • Research and Development Management
  • Project Management
35 more programmes
  • Retail Management
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Accounting
  • Auditing
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Accounting and Business/Management
  • Business/Corporate Communications, General
  • Business/Corporate Communications, Other
  • Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
  • Franchising and Franchise Operations
  • Finance, General
  • Financial Planning and Services
  • International Finance
  • Investments and Securities
  • Public Finance
  • Financial Risk Management
  • Hotel, Motel, and Restaurant Management
  • Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General
  • Labor and Industrial Relations
  • Organizational Behavior Studies
  • Labor Studies
  • International Business/Trade/Commerce
  • Management Science
  • Business Statistics
  • Actuarial Science
  • Marketing/Marketing Management, General
  • Marketing Research
  • International Marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Marketing, Other
  • Insurance
  • Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General
  • Construction Project Management
  • Construction Management, Other
  • Telecommunications Management

Find colleges that fit you with our matcher: choose Business at the Major step.

Where many students take business

Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.

Health & Nursing

  • Hospital and Health Care Facilities Administration/Management

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Where many students take health & nursing

Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.

Education

  • Business and Innovation/Entrepreneurship Teacher Education
  • Sales and Marketing Operations/Marketing and Distribution Teacher Education

Find colleges that fit you with our matcher: choose Education at the Major step.

Where many students take education

Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.

Other fields

Our college matcher doesn't offer this field as a major, so we can't suggest colleges for it here.

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

  • Accounting and Computer Science
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Financial Analytics

Related careers

Related occupations from the O*NET database, in its order.

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Sources

This page includes information from the 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. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. CollegeMatcher has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. O*NET 31.0 Database · CC BY 4.0

Changes: we show the core tasks in the O*NET database with the highest importance ratings (up to eight, in that order), the top three O*NET interest types by score, and shortened Job Zone names. Titles, descriptions and task text are unchanged.

Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Projections, typical entry education and training: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35. Fields of study: NCES and BLS CIP 2020–SOC 2018 Crosswalk. All public domain. OEWS · Employment Projections · CIP–SOC crosswalk