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

Business Administration & Management is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #10 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 72 doctor'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 Doctor's Degree

The business administration doctor'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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor'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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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 doctor'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 doctor'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 Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in New York

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

Top New York Schools for a Doctorate in Business Administration

1

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

11 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Fordham University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business administration & management. Fordham U is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Fordham University

2

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

10 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in business administration & management has to check out University of Rochester. University of Rochester is a large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Rochester.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from University of Rochester

3

St. John Fisher College
Rochester, NY

35 Annual Graduates

$107,064 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in business administration & management needs to check out St. John Fisher College. Fisher is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Rochester.

Students who graduate with their doctorate from the business administration program report average early career income of $107,064.

More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from St. John Fisher College

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	98
Maryland	119	8
New Jersey	115	26
District of Columbia	81	7
Delaware	53	40

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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	37
Organizational Leadership	35

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	29
General Business/Commerce	15
General Sales & Marketing	3
Human Resource Management	2
Hospitality 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.