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2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

65 Colleges
$18,693 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$82,955 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree 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.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 65 schools in the Southeast Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for business, management and marketing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Check out the business, management and marketing doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named University of Management and Technology the best value school in the Southeast Region for business, management and marketing students working on their doctor’s degree. University of Management and Technology is a small private for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Arlington.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Management and Technology are $7,110 a year.

University of Management and Technology also made our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, coming in at #1.

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#2

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, AL

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Columbia Southern University is a great value for business, management and marketing students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the fringe town of Orange Beach, Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Columbia Southern University are $4,035 a year.

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#3

University of the Cumberlands

Williamsburg, KY

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of the Cumberlands helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in the Southeast Region . Cumberlands is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the town of Williamsburg.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Cumberlands are $4,582 a year.

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#4

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Liberty University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in the Southeast Region . Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Liberty University are $8,360 a year.

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#5

Gardner - Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Gardner - Webb University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in the Southeast Region . Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of Boiling Springs.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Gardner - Webb are $10,130 per year.

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#6

University of Charleston

Charleston, WV

With a ranking of #6, University of Charleston did quite well on this year’s best value schools for business, management and marketing students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Charleston, UC is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC are $16,400 a year.

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#6

University of Lynchburg

Lynchburg, VA

University of Lynchburg ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Lynchburg is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Lynchburg are $11,759 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Lynchburg is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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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 doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public school located in the city of Chapel Hill.

UNC Chapel Hill graduate students pay an average of $30,858 in tuition and fees each year.

UNC Chapel Hill excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree business, management and marketing programs. Located in the suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public college with a fairly large student population.

University of Virginia graduate students pay an average of $33,520 in tuition and fees each year.

University of Virginia also took the #3 spot in our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region rankings.

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#10

Hampton University

Hampton, VA

Hampton University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Hampton is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Hampton.

Hampton graduate students pay an average of $13,134 in tuition and fees each year.

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Honorable Mentions

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region award.

Rank College Location
11 University of Florida Gainesville, FL
12 Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus Atlanta, GA
13 Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 1,604
Florida 10,641
North Carolina 6,200
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 25 schools only.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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