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

Ranked #1 in popularity, business administration & management is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Maine ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 192 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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 combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 colleges for business administration & management students working on their master'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 Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management.

Top Maine Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME

15 Annual Graduates

$74,877 Median Starting Salary

University of Southern Maine is a wonderful option for students interested in a master's degree in business administration & management. University of Southern Maine is a moderately-sized public university located in the city of Portland.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of Southern Maine make $7,916 more than the average business administration student.

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

2

Husson University
Bangor, ME

82 Annual Graduates

$63,474 Median Starting Salary

Husson University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the small city of Bangor, Husson is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program report average early career earnings of $63,474.

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

3

Thomas College
Waterville, ME

56 Annual Graduates

$56,249 Median Starting Salary

Thomas College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the town of Waterville, Thomas College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program report average early career income of $56,249.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Thomas College

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that 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

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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	158
Organizational Leadership	28
Interior Design Management	5
Project Management	1

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	179
Accounting	21
Hospitality Management	10
International Business	6
Finance & Financial Management	4
Entrepreneurial Studies	3
Marketing	3
Insurance	3

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.