2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools
Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 226,882 business, management and marketing students received their degrees and certificates, making the major the #2 most popular in the country.
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.
The Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 1,120 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs 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 Master’s Degree Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Colleges.
Top 25 Top Schools for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing
Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the United States for business, management and marketing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stanford University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large suburb of Stanford, Stanford is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
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Out of the 1,120 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Durham.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Chicago helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best business, management and marketing schools in the United States. Located in the large city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Notre Dame. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. Notre Dame is a large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Notre Dame.
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Northwestern University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.
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With a ranking of #7, Cornell University did quite well on this year’s best schools for business, management and marketing students working on their master’s degree. Cornell is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Ithaca.
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Dartmouth College landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree business, management and marketing programs. Dartmouth is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Hanover.
Rice University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree business, management and marketing programs. Rice is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Houston.
Carnegie Mellon University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
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University of California - Los Angeles landed the #11 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree business, management and marketing programs. UCLA is a fairly large public school located in the city of Los Angeles.
University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #12 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree business, management and marketing programs. Located in the suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public college with a very large student population.
Yale University ranked #13 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of New Haven.
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University of California - Berkeley did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #14 on the list. UC Berkeley is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.
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Brown University ranked #15 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
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With a ranking of #16, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best schools for business, management and marketing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #17 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree business, management and marketing programs. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.
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University of Pennsylvania ranked #18 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.
Vanderbilt University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #19 on the list. Vanderbilt is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Nashville.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #20 on the list. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.
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Emory University ranked #21 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. Emory is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Atlanta.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #22 on the list. Located in the suburb of Lake Forest, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
The University of Texas at Austin ranked #23 on this year’s Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools list. UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.
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Georgetown University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for business, management and marketing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #24 on the list. Located in the large city of Washington, Georgetown is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
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Santa Clara University came in at #25 in this year’s edition of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the midsize city of Santa Clara, SCU is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
Rest of the Top 50 Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools
Additional Award Winners
This list shows the rest of the colleges awarded a Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools badge. Showing in this list means the college was ranked in the top 15% of the 1120 different United States business, management and marketing schools we analyzed.
Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional great schools for Business, Management & Marketing students that almost earned our Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools award.
Business, Management & Marketing by Region
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Rankings in Majors Related to Business, Management & Marketing
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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