2025 Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Michigan

Ranked #1 in popularity, business administration & management is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 23 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,080 master's degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of business administration & management for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on business administration & management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for business administration & management to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business administration & management students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Michigan ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Michigan

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management.

10 Top Michigan Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

815 Annual Graduates

$160,286 Median Starting Salary

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor receive an earnings boost of about $74,183 over the typical income of business administration & management majors.

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2

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

214 Annual Graduates

$117,756 Median Starting Salary

Michigan State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Michigan State University receive an earnings boost of about $31,653 over the typical income of business administration & management majors.

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3

Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, MI

402 Annual Graduates

$77,865 Median Starting Salary

Central Michigan University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Central Michigan is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Mount Pleasant.

Master's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make about $77,865 for their early career.

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4

Oakland University
Rochester Hills, MI

112 Annual Graduates

$91,379 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat Oakland University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in business administration & management. Oakland is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Rochester Hills.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at Oakland University make $5,276 above the standard graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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5

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

96 Annual Graduates

$83,229 Median Starting Salary

Located in the small city of Kalamazoo, WMU is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $83,229 for their early career.

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6

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

328 Annual Graduates

$93,398 Median Starting Salary

Wayne State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Detroit.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Wayne State University receive $7,295 more than the standard business administration student.

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7

Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI

35 Annual Graduates

$92,202 Median Starting Salary

Located in the town of Big Rapids, Ferris is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at Ferris State University make $6,099 above the standard college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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8

Davenport University
Grand Rapids, MI

141 Annual Graduates

$70,639 Median Starting Salary

Located in the suburb of Grand Rapids, Davenport University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $70,639 in the first couple years of working.

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9

Northwood University
Midland, MI

120 Annual Graduates

$73,896 Median Starting Salary

Northwood is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Midland.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make about $73,896 in their early career salary.

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10

University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, MI

92 Annual Graduates

$104,388 Median Starting Salary

UM Dearborn is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Dearborn.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from University of Michigan - Dearborn earn a boost of approximately $18,285 above the typical earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	221	6,404
Ohio	207	3,539
Indiana	191	2,542
Wisconsin	173	1,506

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Rankings in Majors Related to Business Administration

Business Administration & Management is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Business Administration Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	2,378
Organizational Leadership	414
Interior Design Management	143
Project Management	75
Supply Chain Management	50
Operations Management	8
Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management	7
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	4
E-Commerce	1

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	698
Accounting	309
Human Resource Management	194
General Business/Commerce	157
Other Business, Management & Marketing	100
Marketing	86
Finance & Financial Management	75
Insurance	20
Management Information Systems	19
Taxation	16

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.