2025 Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Business Administration & Management is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 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 33 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,474 bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree

The business administration bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges 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 bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Massachusetts

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

10 Top Massachusetts Schools for a Bachelor's in Business Administration

1

Boston University
Boston, MA

672 Annual Graduates

$71,545 Median Starting Salary

$57,861 Median Student Debt

Boston University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston.

Bachelor's recipients from the business administration & management program at Boston University make $20,313 more than the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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2

Babson College
Wellesley, MA

702 Annual Graduates

$69,970 Median Starting Salary

$60,480 Median Student Debt

Babson College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Located in the large suburb of Wellesley, Babson College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from Babson College earn $18,738 more than the standard business administration student.

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3

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

120 Annual Graduates

$71,675 Median Starting Salary

Boston College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Boston College is a large private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Chestnut Hill.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from Boston College earn a boost of about $20,443 above the typical earnings of business administration & management majors.

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4

Bentley University
Waltham, MA

108 Annual Graduates

$67,903 Median Starting Salary

$43,000 Median Student Debt

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in business administration & management has to look into Bentley University. Bentley is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Waltham.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from Bentley University get an earnings boost of about $16,671 above the typical earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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5

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

317 Annual Graduates

$64,138 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a very large student population.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from University of Massachusetts Amherst earn a boost of approximately $12,906 over the typical earnings of business administration & management majors.

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6

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA

615 Annual Graduates

$52,657 Median Starting Salary

$16,360 Median Student Debt

Located in the large suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the business administration program report average early career income of $52,657.

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7

Suffolk University
Boston, MA

78 Annual Graduates

$52,803 Median Starting Salary

$35,916 Median Student Debt

Suffolk is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program earn around $52,803 in their early career salary.

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8

Endicott College
Beverly, MA

62 Annual Graduates

$48,214 Median Starting Salary

Endicott is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Beverly.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program earn about $48,214 for their early career.

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9

Bay Path University
Longmeadow, MA

72 Annual Graduates

$54,260 Median Starting Salary

Bay Path is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Longmeadow.

Those business administration & management students who get their bachelor's degree from Bay Path University earn $3,028 more than the average business administration graduate.

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10

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, MA

414 Annual Graduates

$49,417 Median Starting Salary

UMass Boston is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Boston.

Soon after graduating, business administration bachelor's recipients typically earn an average of $49,417 in their early careers.

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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
Connecticut	183	1,615
New Hampshire	157	5,045
Rhode Island	157	734
Maine	156	493
Vermont	155	493

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Rankings in Majors Related to Business Administration

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Business Administration & Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Business Administration Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	4,088
Supply Chain Management	188
Interior Design Management	126
Operations Management	38
Organizational Leadership	24
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	5
Retail Management	5

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Finance & Financial Management	1,490
General Business/Commerce	1,361
Marketing	1,139
Accounting	896
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	385
Hospitality Management	230
International Business	179
Other Business, Management & Marketing	136
Entrepreneurial Studies	131
Construction Management	106

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.