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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

28 Colleges
$21,245 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.

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 the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 28 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for business, management and marketing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 the Southwest Region

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

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

#1

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, AZ

Our 2023 rankings named Grand Canyon University the best value school in the Southwest Region for business, management and marketing students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Grand Canyon University are $11,538 a year.

Grand Canyon University excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UT Austin are $22,944 a year.

UT Austin also made our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #4.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Tempe, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

UOPX - Arizona graduate students pay an average of $16,153 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 28 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of Denton, UNT is a public college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNT are $15,600 per year.

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#4

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas Tech University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 a year.

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#6

Wayland Baptist University

Plainview, TX

Wayland Baptist University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree business, management and marketing programs. Wayland Baptist University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Plainview.

Wayland Baptist University graduate students pay an average of $15,232 in tuition and fees each year.

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Texas A&M University - College Station 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 #7 on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas A&M College Station are $24,106 per year.

Texas A&M College Station not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list.

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#8

University of Houston

Houston, TX

With a ranking of #8, University of Houston 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 large city of Houston, UH is a public college with a very large student population.

UH graduate students pay an average of $18,871 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UH also did well on our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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University of the Incarnate Word ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of San Antonio, UIW is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UIW are $19,840 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UIW also is in the top 20% of our Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

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Hardin - Simmons University 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 #10 on the list. Hardin - Simmons is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Abilene.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Hardin - Simmons are $14,870 a year.

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Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best business, management and marketing colleges 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.

  • 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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