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

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.

College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 224 doctor's degrees in business administration & management during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of business administration & management for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on business administration & management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other business administration & management 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for business administration & management to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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.

More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools

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 Doctor's Degree Schools in Florida list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top Florida Schools for a Doctorate in Business Administration

1

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

39 Annual Graduates

University of Florida is a good choice for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in business administration & management. Located in the midsize city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from University of Florida

2

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, FL

27 Annual Graduates

$133,082 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of South Florida - Main Campus if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business administration & management. USF Tampa is a very large public university located in the large city of Tampa.

Business Administration & Management doctor's degree recipients from University of South Florida - Main Campus earn a boost of about $26,627 over the typical earnings of business administration & management majors.

More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from University of South Florida - Main Campus

3

Florida International University
Miami, FL

34 Annual Graduates

Florida International University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in business administration & management. FIU is a very large public university located in the suburb of Miami.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Florida International University

4

Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

16 Annual Graduates

Florida Atlantic University is a great decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in business administration & management. FAU is a very large public university located in the small city of Boca Raton.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Florida Atlantic University

5

Southeastern University
Lakeland, FL

30 Annual Graduates

SEU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lakeland.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Southeastern University

6

Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, FL

22 Annual Graduates

$79,828 Median Starting Salary

Located in the town of Saint Leo, St. Leo University is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Doctorate students who receive their degree from the business administration program earn an average of $79,828 for their early career.

More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Saint Leo University

7

Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, FL

14 Annual Graduates

Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Fort Lauderdale.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Virginia	127	134
Georgia	126	30
North Carolina	115	59
Mississippi	113	15
Louisiana	103	23
Tennessee	102	157
Alabama	98	56
South Carolina	91	37
Kentucky	87	93
Arkansas	58	13
West Virginia	49	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Business Administration

Business Administration & Management is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Business Administration Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	180
Organizational Leadership	37
Interior Design Management	7

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business/Commerce	10
Hospitality Management	4

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.