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2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$19,563 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$82,955 Avg Salary

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

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in North Carolina 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Business, Management & Marketing

Our analysis found University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the best value school for business, management and marketing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in North Carolina. 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 $12,566 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNC Chapel Hill did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list.

Read full report on Business, Management & Marketing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a great value for business, management and marketing students working on their doctor’s degree. UNC Charlotte is a fairly large public school located in the city of Charlotte.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Charlotte are $7,713 per year.

Full Business, Management & Marketing at University of North Carolina at Charlotte Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Greensboro.

UNC Greensboro graduate students pay an average of $8,265 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Business, Management & Marketing at University of North Carolina at Greensboro Report

#4

Gardner - Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Gardner - Webb University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value business, management and marketing schools in North Carolina. Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of Boiling Springs.

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

Full Business, Management & Marketing at Gardner - Webb University Report

#5

Duke University

Durham, NC

Out of the 5 schools in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Durham.

Duke graduate students pay an average of $59,141 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Duke is ranked #1 for overall quality for business, management and marketing in North Carolina.

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Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value 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 5 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.

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