2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #9 out of 36 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 16 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 538 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

Your choice of business, management & marketing for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality business, management & marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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 include a school'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.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on business, management & marketing students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business, management & marketing 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, management & marketing 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, management & marketing related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Business, Management & Marketing 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, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in the Great Lakes Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing.

10 Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Doctorate in Business, Management & Marketing

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Ohio State University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Ohio State University - Main Campus

2

Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Indiana University - Bloomington if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Indiana University - Bloomington

3

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing needs to check out University of Wisconsin - Madison. UW - Madison is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Madison.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Wisconsin - Madison

4

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Purdue University - Main Campus is a great option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Purdue University - Main Campus

5

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

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

6

Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global
Marion, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

86 Annual Graduates

IWU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Marion.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global

7

University of Dayton
Dayton, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

72 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize city of Dayton, UDayton is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Dayton

8

Indiana Institute of Technology
Fort Wayne, IN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Fort Wayne, Indiana Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Indiana Institute of Technology

9

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

Benedictine U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Lisle.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Benedictine University

10

Kent State University at Kent
Kent, OH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

Located in the large suburb of Kent, Kent State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Kent State University at Kent

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best business, management & marketing colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	29	39
Michigan	29	22
Ohio	29	83
Illinois	29	167
Wisconsin	27	64

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	418
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	38
General Business/Commerce	28
Human Resource Management	28
Accounting	10
Hospitality Management	6
Finance & Financial Management	5
Marketing	3
Management Information Systems	2

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.