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

Business Administration & Management is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 35 schools in Massachusetts 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 6,140 master's degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

The business administration master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality business administration program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business administration & management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other business administration & management students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt business administration & management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 schools for business administration & management students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management.

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

1

Boston University
Boston, MA

1,198 Annual Graduates

$110,558 Median Starting Salary

Boston University is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Boston University make $26,859 more than the standard business administration student.

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2

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

307 Annual Graduates

$114,773 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Boston College if you wish to pursue a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the city of Chestnut Hill, Boston College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at Boston College make $31,074 above the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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3

Babson College
Wellesley, MA

440 Annual Graduates

$145,036 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Babson College if you want to pursue a master's degree in business administration & management. Babson College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Wellesley.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management major at Babson College make $61,337 above the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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4

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

489 Annual Graduates

$128,746 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to check out University of Massachusetts Amherst. UMass Amherst is a very large public university located in the small city of Amherst.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of Massachusetts Amherst receive $45,047 more than the typical business administration student.

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5

Bentley University
Waltham, MA

210 Annual Graduates

$117,787 Median Starting Salary

Located in the small city of Waltham, Bentley is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Bentley University make $34,088 more than the standard business administration grad.

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6

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

38 Annual Graduates

$64,718 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Soon after graduating, business administration master's recipients typically make around $64,718 in their early careers.

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7

Suffolk University
Boston, MA

146 Annual Graduates

$88,668 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large city of Boston, Suffolk is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Suffolk University earn a boost of approximately $4,969 above the average income of business administration & management graduates.

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8

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA

28 Annual Graduates

$147,168 Median Starting Salary

Located in the midsize city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute earn $63,469 above the typical college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

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9

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA

488 Annual Graduates

$95,192 Median Starting Salary

UMass Lowell is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Lowell.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of Massachusetts - Lowell receive $11,493 more than the average business administration graduate.

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10

Brandeis University
Waltham, MA

86 Annual Graduates

$89,111 Median Starting Salary

Brandeis is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Waltham.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Brandeis University make $5,412 more than the typical business administration grad.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	153	1,760
Rhode Island	127	513
New Hampshire	108	2,573
Vermont	91	284
Maine	90	178

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Business Administration & Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Business Administration & Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Business Administration Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	5,358
Interior Design Management	258
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	213
Organizational Leadership	191
Supply Chain Management	51
Project Management	39
Research and Development Management	23
Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management	5
Operations Management	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	3,195
Accounting	710
Finance & Financial Management	690
General Business/Commerce	421
International Business	338
Marketing	320
Human Resource Management	273
Other Business, Management & Marketing	92
Hospitality Management	52
Taxation	49

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.