2025 Best Organizational Leadership Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Organizational Leadership is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #35 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Organizational Leadership Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 100 doctor's degrees in organizational leadership during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Organizational Leadership School for Your Doctor's Degree

The organizational leadership doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality organizational leadership program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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 organizational leadership students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other organizational leadership students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized organizational leadership related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for organizational leadership students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Organizational Leadership Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Organizational Leadership in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in organizational leadership.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership

1

Wilmington University
New Castle, DE

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Wilmington University is a good decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. Located in the large suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from Wilmington University

2

St. John Fisher College
Rochester, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

35 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat St. John Fisher College if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. Located in the suburb of Rochester, Fisher is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from St. John Fisher College

3

Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Thomas Jefferson University is a good choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson University is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from Thomas Jefferson University

4

Eastern University
Saint Davids, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

Eastern University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in organizational leadership. EU is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Saint Davids.More information about a doctorate in organizational leadership from Eastern University

Best Organizational Leadership Colleges by State

Explore the best organizational leadership colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	46
Pennsylvania	311	27
Maryland	190	7
Delaware	63	11

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Rankings in Majors Related to Organizational Leadership

One of 16 majors within the Business Administration & Management area of study, Organizational Leadership has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	188
Supply Chain Management	2
Project Management	1
Interior Design Management	1

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.