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

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 17 schools in South Carolina 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 1,433 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 complete 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

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

10 Top South Carolina Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

173 Annual Graduates

$118,109 Median Starting Salary

University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. UofSC is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at University of South Carolina - Columbia get $51,024 more than the typical college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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2

Clemson University
Clemson, SC

246 Annual Graduates

$87,271 Median Starting Salary

Clemson University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Clemson is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Clemson.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at Clemson University earn $20,186 above the standard college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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3

Citadel Military College of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

13 Annual Graduates

$75,902 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to take a look at Citadel Military College of South Carolina. Located in the midsize city of Charleston, The Citadel is a public college with a small student population.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at Citadel Military College of South Carolina earn $8,817 above the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

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4

Anderson University South Carolina
Anderson, SC

74 Annual Graduates

$62,257 Median Starting Salary

Anderson University South Carolina is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Anderson University South Carolina is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Anderson.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $62,257 for their early career.

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5

Charleston Southern University
Charleston, SC

74 Annual Graduates

$55,632 Median Starting Salary

CSU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Charleston.

Master's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make about $55,632 in their early career salary.

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6

Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC

97 Annual Graduates

$61,645 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Rock Hill, Winthrop is a public university with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program state that they receive average early career earnings of $61,645.

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7

College of Charleston
Charleston, SC

53 Annual Graduates

$67,635 Median Starting Salary

Located in the midsize city of Charleston, C of C is a public college with a fairly large student population.

After graduating, business administration master's recipients usually make about $67,635 in their early careers.

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8

University of South Carolina - Aiken
Aiken, SC

225 Annual Graduates

$72,109 Median Starting Salary

UofSC Aiken is a small public university located in the large suburb of Aiken.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of South Carolina - Aiken receive $5,024 more than the standard business administration graduate.

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9

Lander University
Greenwood, SC

101 Annual Graduates

Lander University is a small public university located in the town of Greenwood.More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Lander University

10

Limestone College
Gaffney, SC

50 Annual Graduates

$59,957 Median Starting Salary

Located in the distant town of Gaffney, Limestone College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Soon after graduation, business administration master's recipients typically earn around $59,957 in their early careers.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	6,153
Georgia	190	2,252
Virginia	182	4,078
North Carolina	178	3,014
Tennessee	166	2,035
Alabama	151	2,940
Kentucky	147	870
Louisiana	147	3,219
Mississippi	145	1,071
Arkansas	121	450
West Virginia	112	1,112

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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	1,206
Organizational Leadership	125
Interior Design Management	49
Supply Chain Management	17
Project Management	14
Operations Management	11
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	6
Transportation/Mobility Management	5

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Accounting	165
General Business/Commerce	145
Human Resource Management	136
International Business	134
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	32
Marketing	22
Real Estate	22
Hospitality Management	17
Entrepreneurial Studies	7
Management Information Systems	2

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.