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

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.

College Factual looked at 30 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 6,203 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 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 Florida list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

979 Annual Graduates

$95,217 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business administration & management has to look into University of Florida. Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a very large student population.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at University of Florida get $27,751 above the average college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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2

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

195 Annual Graduates

$93,230 Median Starting Salary

University of Miami is a great choice for students pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management. U Miami is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Coral Gables.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management major at University of Miami make $25,764 more than the standard college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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3

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide
Daytona Beach, FL

372 Annual Graduates

$86,536 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to take a look at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide. Embry-Riddle Worldwide is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Daytona Beach.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide make $19,070 more than the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

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4

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, FL

235 Annual Graduates

$85,330 Median Starting Salary

Florida Institute of Technology is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Florida Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Melbourne.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Florida Institute of Technology make $17,864 more than the standard business administration student.

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5

Florida International University
Miami, FL

736 Annual Graduates

$76,205 Median Starting Salary

FIU is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Miami.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management major at Florida International University get $8,739 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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6

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, FL

364 Annual Graduates

$83,988 Median Starting Salary

USF Tampa is a very large public university located in the large city of Tampa.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of South Florida - Main Campus earn $16,522 more than the average business administration grad.

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7

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

356 Annual Graduates

$77,205 Median Starting Salary

FAU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Boca Raton.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management major at Florida Atlantic University make $9,739 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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8

Rollins College
Winter Park, FL

130 Annual Graduates

$75,913 Median Starting Salary

Located in the suburb of Winter Park, Rollins is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Rollins College make $8,447 more than the typical business administration graduate.

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9

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, FL

39 Annual Graduates

$86,536 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Daytona Beach, Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach make $19,070 more than the typical business administration graduate.

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10

Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, FL

428 Annual Graduates

$64,606 Median Starting Salary

Located in the fringe town of Saint Leo, St. Leo University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $64,606 in the first couple years of their career.

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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
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
South Carolina	146	1,106
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	5,085
Interior Design Management	363
Supply Chain Management	328
Organizational Leadership	156
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	134
Project Management	108
Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management	27
Transportation/Mobility Management	2

Most Popular Majors Related to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Accounting	774
General Business/Commerce	729
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	544
Human Resource Management	368
Hospitality Management	337
Finance & Financial Management	334
Marketing	294
Management Information Systems	210
Entrepreneurial Studies	173
International Business	159

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.