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

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.

College Factual looked at 61 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,961 master's degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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 consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The business administration school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in New York.

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

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.

12 Top New York Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

574 Annual Graduates

$179,274 Median Starting Salary

Cornell University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Cornell University get an earnings boost of about $100,836 over the typical income of business administration & management majors.

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2

New York University
New York, NY

168 Annual Graduates

$184,729 Median Starting Salary

New York University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from New York University receive $106,291 more than the average business administration grad.

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3

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

246 Annual Graduates

$122,790 Median Starting Salary

Syracuse University is a great decision for students interested in a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the midsize city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Syracuse University receive an earnings boost of about $44,352 over the typical income of business administration & management graduates.

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4

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

276 Annual Graduates

$110,316 Median Starting Salary

Fordham University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a master's degree in business administration & management. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Fordham University earn a boost of around $31,878 over the typical income of business administration & management majors.

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5

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

85 Annual Graduates

$92,758 Median Starting Salary

University of Rochester is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Rochester.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at University of Rochester get $14,320 more than the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.

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6

University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

168 Annual Graduates

$80,163 Median Starting Salary

University at Buffalo is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Buffalo.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $80,163 in their early career salary.

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7

Baruch College
New York, NY

202 Annual Graduates

$109,868 Median Starting Salary

Baruch is a fairly large public college located in the large city of New York.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Baruch College receive $31,430 more than the typical business administration grad.

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8

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY

79 Annual Graduates

$100,715 Median Starting Salary

Marist is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Poughkeepsie.

Master's recipients from the business administration & management program at Marist College make $22,277 more than the average college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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9

Binghamton University
Vestal, NY

270 Annual Graduates

$74,554 Median Starting Salary

Binghamton University is a large public university located in the midsize suburb of Vestal.

After graduating, business administration master's recipients typically make about $74,554 in their early careers.

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10

Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY

12 Annual Graduates

$106,517 Median Starting Salary

Hofstra is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Hempstead.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Hofstra University receive $28,079 more than the standard business administration student.

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11

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

46 Annual Graduates

$74,469 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large suburb of Rochester, RIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

After graduating, business administration master's recipients typically make about $74,469 at the beginning of their careers.

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12

Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY

69 Annual Graduates

$74,907 Median Starting Salary

Clarkson is a small private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Potsdam.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program earn an average of $74,907 in the first couple years of working.

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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 New York award.

Rank	College	Location
13	DeVry College of New York	New York, NY
14	Stony Brook University	Stony Brook, NY
15	University at Albany	Albany, NY
16	St John’s University - New York	Queens, NY
17	Le Moyne College	Syracuse, NY
18	Adelphi University	Garden City, NY
19	Manhattan University	Riverdale, NY
20	Siena College	Loudonville, NY

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	248	4,212
Maryland	193	3,128
New Jersey	188	2,407
District of Columbia	154	2,001
Delaware	109	782

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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	4,245
Organizational Leadership	272
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	118
Science/Technology Management	91
Transportation/Mobility Management	64
Retail Management	62
Interior Design Management	57
Supply Chain Management	23
Operations Management	22
Project Management	7

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	5,459
Accounting	1,420
General Sales & Marketing	596
Human Resource Management	549
Real Estate	326
Marketing	319
Other Business, Management & Marketing	284
Hospitality Management	212
Finance & Financial Management	208
Taxation	195

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.