Ohio·Business and Financial Operations Occupations·SOC 13-1199

Best Business Operations Specialist, All Other programs in Ohio, ranked by enrollment

All business operations specialists not listed.

86 schools in Ohio run programs that feed this job, graduating 7,799 people a year. The job pays a median of $79,350 in Ohio across about 31,690 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledSecurity AdvisorSecurity AnalystSecurity ConsultantSecurity SpecialistOnline Services ManagerSustainability ConsultantSustainability SpecialistSustainability Coordinator
Graduates / yr
7,799
in Ohio
Median pay · Ohio
$79,350
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
31,690
people employed
Schools
86
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
46%
across those schools
Median net price
$21,239
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Ohio that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

5 programs in Ohio that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Ohio (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Ohio page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 52.0201In Ohio
7,502
96.2%
84$43,506$25,000
2
CIP 52.1101In Ohio
228
2.9%
19$51,261$23,361
3
CIP 52.0904In Ohio
57
0.7%
3$34,218$23,364
4
CIP 52.0208In Ohio
10
0.1%
1$43,506$25,000
5
CIP 52.0499In Ohio
2
0.0%
1$25,993$9,500

Top 25 schools in Ohio

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 66 of the 86 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH Public · 3 feeder programs
826Business Administration and Management, General$13,18141%
2Franklin University
Columbus, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
746Business Administration and Management, General$56,58811%$22,280
3Kent State University at Kent
Kent, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
388Business Administration and Management, General$43,50964%86%
4Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
367Business Administration and Management, General$43,11950%84%
5University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH Public · 2 feeder programs
350Business Administration and Management, General$60,36075%85%
6Ohio University - Main Campus
Athens, OH Public · 2 feeder programs
311Business Administration and Management, General$57,00665%85%
7Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH Public · 3 feeder programs
297Business Administration and Management, General$61,42388%61%
8Lorain County Community College
Elyria, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
269Business Administration and Management, General$38,12031%
9Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH Public · 2 feeder programs
237Business Administration and Management, General$46,70851%91%
10Marion Technical College
Marion, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
215Business Administration and Management, General$46,33431%
11Wright State University - Main Campus
Dayton, OH Public · 2 feeder programs
214Business Administration and Management, General$42,68042%96%
12Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH Private not-for-profit · 2 feeder programs
143Business Administration and Management, General$48,77069%$31,11986%
13Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
139Business Administration and Management, General87%$27,97637%
14Ashland University
Ashland, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
132Business Administration and Management, General$58,58061%$21,78576%
15University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash College
Blue Ash, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
129Business Administration and Management, General$44,94416%
16Columbus State Community College
Columbus, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
123Business Administration and Management, General28%
17The University of Findlay
Findlay, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
123Business Administration and Management, General$45,08958%$23,12883%
18Stark State College
North Canton, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
121Business Administration and Management, General$37,44223%
19University of Toledo
Toledo, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
115Business Administration and Management, General$51,27257%92%
20Owens Community College
Perrysburg, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
108Business Administration and Management, General$35,17535%
21Heidelberg University
Tiffin, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
103Business Administration and Management, General$42,64052%$20,74286%
22University of Dayton
Dayton, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
99Business Administration and Management, General$63,89780%$28,56065%
23Baldwin Wallace University
Berea, OH Private not-for-profit · 3 feeder programs
98Business Administration and Management, General$44,68867%$25,10476%
24Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Cincinnati, OH Public · 1 feeder programs
95Business Administration and Management, General$45,38916%
25University of Northwestern Ohio
Lima, OH Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
94Business Administration and Management, General$39,18254%$19,592

All 86 schools in Ohio

Every school in Ohio with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Ohio that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Sinclair Community CollegeDaytonPublic8263
Franklin UniversityColumbusPrivate not-for-profit7461
Kent State University at KentKentPublic3881
Youngstown State UniversityYoungstownPublic3671
University of Cincinnati - Main CampusCincinnatiPublic3502
Ohio University - Main CampusAthensPublic3112
Ohio State University - Main CampusColumbusPublic2973
Lorain County Community CollegeElyriaPublic2691
Cleveland State UniversityClevelandPublic2372
Marion Technical CollegeMarionPublic2151
Wright State University - Main CampusDaytonPublic2142
Xavier UniversityCincinnatiPrivate not-for-profit1432
Case Western Reserve UniversityClevelandPrivate not-for-profit1391
Ashland UniversityAshlandPrivate not-for-profit1321
University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash CollegeBlue AshPublic1291

What business operations specialists, all other earn in Ohio

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Ohio
$79,350
Mean annual
$86,570
Jobs in state
31,690
What the range looks like
10th pct$46,560Median$79,35090th pct$132,720
Versus the national median
-4.5%

U.S. median $83,050. Ohio pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
0.82×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in Ohio

Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH
$102,660median
4,370 jobs
Columbus, OH
$82,030median
10,040 jobs
Lima, OH
$77,330median
140 jobs
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
$77,610median
5,140 jobs
Cleveland, OH
$77,850median
4,340 jobs
Toledo, OH
$74,520median
970 jobs
Youngstown-Warren, OH
$74,220median
480 jobs
Canton-Massillon, OH
$68,710median
430 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+3.0%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
108,200
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
36,300
1,205,700 → 1,242,000
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Business Operations Specialists, All Other page.

How to become a Business Operations Specialist, All Other

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
Bachelor's degree

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Top skills

Active ListeningReading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingSpeakingWritingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Ohio

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 5 majors mapped to Business Operations Specialists, All Other5 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 52.0201Business Administration and Management, General
  • 52.0208E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce
  • 52.0499Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services, Other
  • 52.0904Hotel/Motel Administration/Management
  • 52.1101International Business/Trade/Commerce

Common questions

Answers for people weighing business operations specialists, all other programs in Ohio.

What degree do you need to become a Business Operations Specialist, All Other?+

Bachelor's degree is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Business Administration and Management, General, which awarded 7,502 degrees in Ohio in 2024-25, 96.2% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Business Operations Specialist, All Other?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 5 programs to this occupation. The largest are Business Administration, International Business, Hospitality Administration/Management, Business Operations Support and Assistant Services. Together they graduate about 7,799 people a year in Ohio.

How much do business operations specialists, all other earn in Ohio?+

The median is $79,350 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 4.5% below the U.S. median of $83,050. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for business operations specialists, all other growing?+

BLS projects a +3.0% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 108,200 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Ohio?+

86 institutions in Ohio reported graduates from at least one of the 5 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do business operations specialists, all other work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Security Advisor, Security Analyst, Security Consultant, Security Specialist, Online Services Manager, Sustainability Consultant among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 13-1199.

Business Operations Specialists, All Other in other statesCaliforniaTexasArizonaFloridaNew YorkNorth CarolinaNew HampshireIndiana

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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