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2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

11 Colleges
$61,403 Avg Salary
$24,100 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate School for You

Business, Management & Marketing is the most popular major in North Carolina with 6,200 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 11 schools in North Carolina to see which graduate certificate 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, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Top 10 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools

#1

Duke University

Durham, NC

Our 2023 rankings named Duke University the best school in North Carolina for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at North Carolina State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best business, management and marketing schools in North Carolina. NC State is a very large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

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#3

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

Out of the 11 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, East Carolina University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of North Carolina at Greensboro helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best business, management and marketing schools in North Carolina. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Greensboro.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Queens University of Charlotte. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the city of Charlotte, Queens is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. UNC Charlotte is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

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#7

Gardner - Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

Gardner - Webb University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Boiling Springs.

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#8

Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteville State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina ranking. Fayetteville State University is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Fayetteville.

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Western Carolina University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in North Carolina ranking. WCU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Cullowhee.

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With a ranking of #10, Strayer University - North Carolina did quite well on this year’s best schools for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Morrisville, Strayer University - North Carolina is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

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Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Business, Management & Marketing Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 1,604
Florida 10,641
Virginia 6,276
Tennessee 3,234
Georgia 4,603
South Carolina 2,077
Louisiana 4,370
West Virginia 1,895
Kentucky 2,845
Arkansas 731
Alabama 4,164

Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 31,701
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784
Marketing 4,011
Management Information Systems 2,766
International Business 2,007
Entrepreneurial Studies 1,823
Taxation 1,350
Hospitality Management 1,341
Real Estate 1,280
Other Business, Management & Marketing 1,073
General Sales & Marketing 537
Construction Management 466
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing 180
Business/Managerial Economics 162
Insurance 143
Business/Corporate Communications 117
Telecommunications Management 23

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 11 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar.

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