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

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 5 schools in North Dakota 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 255 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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.

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

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 schools 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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota

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

Top North Dakota Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, ND

38 Annual Graduates

$62,929 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business administration & management has to check out North Dakota State University - Main Campus. North Dakota State University is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Fargo.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $62,929 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from North Dakota State University - Main Campus

2

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND

54 Annual Graduates

$99,715 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of North Dakota if you wish to pursue a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the small city of Grand Forks, UND is a public university with a large student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of North Dakota earn $28,532 more than the standard business administration student.

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3

University of Mary
Bismarck, ND

117 Annual Graduates

$74,124 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to take a look at University of Mary. Located in the rural area of Bismarck, UMary is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of Mary earn $2,941 more than the typical business administration student.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from University of Mary

4

University of Jamestown
Jamestown, ND

31 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to take a look at University of Jamestown. UJ is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of Jamestown.More information about a master’s in business administration & management from University of Jamestown

5

Minot State University
Minot, ND

10 Annual Graduates

$47,966 Median Starting Salary

MSU is a small public university located in the small city of Minot.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program state that they receive average early career wages of $47,966.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Minot State University

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	193	3,162
Minnesota	174	2,786
Iowa	154	1,119
Kansas	149	1,443
Nebraska	123	939
South Dakota	89	171

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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	209
Organizational Leadership	40
Project Management	6

Most Popular Majors Related to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Accounting	47
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	14
Management Information Systems	12
Entrepreneurial Studies	4
Other Business, Management & Marketing	4

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.