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Add Value with a Business Degree

From Economics to Accounting, our affordable online business courses are your inside track to starting a career in business and finance without burying yourself under a mountain of debt.

Your Business Degree: A Key to Success in America

Want an insider's tip? StraighterLine's affordable online business courses are your inside track to starting a career in business and finance without burying yourself under a mountain of debt. About 20% of all bachelor's degrees awarded are in business, and more than 10% of all workers are engaged in management, business, and financial occupations. It’s no wonder either, considering business majors consistently rank among the top five earners overall, and multimillion-dollar salaries and corporate bonuses are increasingly common among the movers and shakers on Wall Street.

Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Benefit from Business
Degrees, Too

Just ask anyone who runs a small business, from a frozen yogurt franchise to a software development firm: The lessons and principles you learn from a business degree can mean the difference between failing with a good idea or succeeding—no matter what.

Online Business Degrees Are More Respected Than Ever

When top business schools like Duke, Northeastern, Penn State, and the University of North Carolina offer online MBAs that cost between $89,000 and $146,000, it’s fair to conclude that there’s no stigma to an online business degree anymore. Besides, some of the most successful business people in history got their degrees while working and going to school at night or through distance-learning courses.

Save Big When You Start with Online Courses from StraighterLine

No matter what type of business degree you pursue—from accounting or economics to an MBA—you’ll find that the same basic courses are required for most business school programs. So before you start crunching numbers and making deals, you’ll need to take them someplace. But the best place to take them is StraighterLine, where your course credits are guaranteed to transfer to any of our partner colleges or through the ACE CREDIT service to more than 1,800 colleges and universities in the United States. Starting your business career with StraighterLine could save you thousands—or even tens of thousands—of dollars on your business education.