2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in business, management & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #9 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 83 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,722 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing during the <nil> academic year.

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

The business, management & marketing doctor'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

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 many resources a school devotes to business, management & marketing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other business, management & marketing 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, management & marketing 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, management & marketing related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business, management & marketing students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The business, management & marketing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.

16 Top Schools for a Doctorate in Business, Management & Marketing

1

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

30 Annual Graduates

Washington University in St Louis is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Washington University in St Louis

2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

28 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing needs to take a look at University of Pennsylvania. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Pennsylvania

3

George Washington University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

George Washington University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from George Washington University

4

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a good option for students interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

5

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Southern California

6

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

Ohio State is a very large public university located in the city of Columbus.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Ohio State University - Main Campus

7

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Texas A&M University - College Station

8

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

24 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Temple University

9

University of Scranton
Scranton, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

University of Scranton is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Scranton.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Scranton

10

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Wisconsin - Madison

11

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Purdue University - Main Campus

12

University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

UC Berkeley is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of California - Berkeley

13

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Case Western is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Cleveland.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Case Western Reserve University

14

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Georgia

15

University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of California - Los Angeles

16

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

Rest of the Top Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools

Additional Noteworthy Schools

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools award.

Rank	College	Location
17	Fordham University	Bronx, NY
18	Iowa State University	Ames, IA
19	University of Washington - Seattle Campus	Seattle, WA
20	Arizona State University - Tempe	Tempe, AZ
21	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Amherst, MA
22	Drexel University	Philadelphia, PA
23	Pepperdine University	Malibu, CA
24	Liberty University	Lynchburg, VA
25	Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global	Marion, IN
26	Rutgers University - Newark	Newark, NJ
27	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL

Business, Management & Marketing by Region

View the Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	3,606
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	332
Human Resource Management	266
General Business/Commerce	232
Hospitality Management	59
Accounting	53
Other Business, Management & Marketing	47
Finance & Financial Management	42
Management Information Systems	37
International Business	19

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar. More about our data sources and methodologies.