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2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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

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

With 226,882 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, business, management and marketing is the #2 most popular major in the United States.

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 the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 30 schools in the Southwest Region 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 the Southwest Region

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

Top 10 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Texas A&M University - College Station the best school in the Southwest Region for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a very large student population.

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#2

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Arizona State University - Skysong helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best business, management and marketing schools in the Southwest Region . ASU - Skysong is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale.

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#4

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. OSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Stillwater.

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#6

St. Mary's University

San Antonio, TX

With a ranking of #6, St. Mary’s University did quite well on this year’s best schools for business, management and marketing students working on their graduate certificate. St. Mary's is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of San Antonio.

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University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best graduate certificate business, management and marketing programs. Located in the city of Tempe, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit school with a very large student population.

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University of Houston - Downtown 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 #8 on the list. UH Downtown is a large public school located in the large city of Houston.

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University of North Texas came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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#10

University of Dallas

Irving, TX

University of Dallas came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. UD is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Irving.

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Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best business, management and marketing schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 7,884
Texas 16,152
Oklahoma 1,823
New Mexico 514

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 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar.

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