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

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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 513 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 quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host 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 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

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 Rhode Island list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top Rhode Island Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

Brown University
Providence, RI

38 Annual Graduates

Brown University is a good decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in business administration & management. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Providence.More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Brown University

2

Bryant University
Smithfield, RI

83 Annual Graduates

$85,890 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to check out Bryant University. Located in the large suburb of Smithfield, Bryant is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Business Administration & Management master's degree recipients from Bryant University earn a boost of about $16,777 over the average earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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

3

Providence College
Providence, RI

104 Annual Graduates

$73,619 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business administration & management needs to check out Providence College. Providence is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Providence.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from Providence College receive $4,506 more than the typical business administration graduate.

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

4

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI

87 Annual Graduates

$89,971 Median Starting Salary

University of Rhode Island is a great option for individuals interested in a master's degree in business administration & management. URI is a large public university located in the large suburb of Kingston.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of Rhode Island make $20,858 more than the average business administration graduate.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from University of Rhode Island

5

Johnson & Wales University - Online
Providence, RI

97 Annual Graduates

$57,220 Median Starting Salary

Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, JWU Online is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make an average of $57,220 in their early career salary.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Johnson & Wales University - Online

6

Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Providence, RI

18 Annual Graduates

$57,220 Median Starting Salary

Located in the midsize city of Providence, JWU Providence is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make an average of $57,220 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Johnson & Wales University - Providence

7

Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

59 Annual Graduates

$64,563 Median Starting Salary

Salve Regina is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Newport.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program report average early career wages of $64,563.

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

8

Roger Williams University
Bristol, RI

26 Annual Graduates

$55,305 Median Starting Salary

RWU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Bristol.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program state that they receive average early career income of $55,305.

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

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	222	4,906
Connecticut	153	1,760
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	392
Organizational Leadership	43
Supply Chain Management	31
Project Management	19
Interior Design Management	15
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	12
Operations Management	1

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	96
Hospitality Management	76
Human Resource Management	40
Finance & Financial Management	34
Accounting	25
International Business	11
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	10
Management Information Systems	4
Taxation	1
Construction 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.