2025 Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

If you pursue a master's degree in business administration & management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 66 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 12,808 master's degrees in business administration & management to qualified students.

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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 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.

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 the New England Region 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 the New England Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for business administration & management students seeking a a master's degree. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.

13 Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

Boston University
Boston, MA

1,198 Annual Graduates

$110,558 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat Boston University if you want to pursue 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.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at Boston University get $26,096 more than the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

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2

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

307 Annual Graduates

$114,773 Median Starting Salary

Boston College is a wonderful option for individuals interested in a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the small city of Chestnut Hill, Boston College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Boston College get an earnings boost of around $30,311 above the typical income of business administration & management graduates.

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3

Babson College
Wellesley, MA

440 Annual Graduates

$145,036 Median Starting Salary

Babson College is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management. Babson College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Wellesley.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Babson College get an earnings boost of about $60,574 over the average earnings of business administration & management majors.

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4

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

489 Annual Graduates

$128,746 Median Starting Salary

University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. UMass Amherst is a very large public university located in the city of Amherst.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from University of Massachusetts Amherst earn a boost of approximately $44,284 above the average income of business administration & management graduates.

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5

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

158 Annual Graduates

$112,902 Median Starting Salary

UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the town of Storrs.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from University of Connecticut receive an earnings boost of about $28,440 over the typical earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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6

Bentley University
Waltham, MA

210 Annual Graduates

$117,787 Median Starting Salary

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

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Bentley University get an earnings boost of about $33,325 over the average income of business administration & management majors.

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7

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH

3,485 Annual Graduates

$78,210 Median Starting Salary

SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Manchester.

After graduation, business administration master's recipients typically earn around $78,210 in the first five years of their career.

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8

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.

Master's students who receive their degree from the business administration program earn an average of $64,718 in the first couple years of working.

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9

Brown University
Providence, RI

38 Annual Graduates

Brown is a large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Providence.More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Brown University

10

Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT

155 Annual Graduates

$79,999 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large suburb of Fairfield, Fairfield U is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.

Soon after graduating, business administration master's recipients typically make around $79,999 in the first five years of their career.

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11

Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT

298 Annual Graduates

$77,487 Median Starting Salary

Quinnipiac is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Hamden.

Soon after graduating, business administration master's recipients usually make about $77,487 at the beginning of their careers.

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12

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.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at Suffolk University earn $4,206 more than the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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13

Bryant University
Smithfield, RI

83 Annual Graduates

$85,890 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large suburb of Smithfield, Bryant is a private not-for-profit 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 income of $85,890.

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Honorable Mentions

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region award.

Rank	College	Location
14	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Worcester, MA
15	Champlain College	Burlington, VT
16	University of Massachusetts - Lowell	Lowell, MA
17	Brandeis University	Waltham, MA
18	Providence College	Providence, RI
19	University of Rhode Island	Kingston, RI
20	University of Hartford	West Hartford, CT
21	Johnson & Wales University - Online	Providence, RI
22	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Boston, MA

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges by State

Explore the best business administration & management schools for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	222	4,906
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	11,436
Organizational Leadership	422
Interior Design Management	308
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	225
Operations Management	205
Project Management	102
Supply Chain Management	82
Research and Development Management	23
Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management	5

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	4,570
Accounting	1,634
Finance & Financial Management	842
Human Resource Management	806
General Business/Commerce	742
Marketing	548
International Business	355
Hospitality Management	138
Other Business, Management & Marketing	92
Taxation	54

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.