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2023 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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$79,624 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree School for You

Business Administration & Management is the most popular major in the United States with 18,824 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 27 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best educational experiences for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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2023 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for business administration majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Top 10 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named University of Michigan - Ann Arbor the best school in the Great Lakes Region for business administration and management students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public school with a very large student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Business Administration & Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public school with a very large student population.

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#3

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Michigan State University is a great place for business administration and management students working on their doctor’s degree. Michigan State is a very large public school located in the city of East Lansing.

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#4

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Purdue University - Main Campus is a great place for business administration and management students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public college with a very large student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the large city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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Case Western Reserve University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Business Administration & Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Case Western is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Cleveland.

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Concordia University, Wisconsin ranked #7 on this year’s Best Business Administration & Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the large suburb of Mequon, Concordia University, Wisconsin is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

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University of Wisconsin - Whitewater landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree business administration and management programs. UW - Whitewater is a large public school located in the town of Whitewater.

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Lawrence Technological University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business administration and management students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Lawrence Tech is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Southfield.

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With a ranking of #10, Indiana Institute of Technology did quite well on this year’s best schools for business administration and management students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges by State

Explore the best business administration and management colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 3,906
Illinois 7,000
Ohio 3,681
Indiana 2,674
Wisconsin 1,563

One of 20 majors within the area of study, business administration and management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

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