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

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 122 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

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 full 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.

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 Illinois list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in Illinois

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

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

1

Benedictine University
Lisle, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

12 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Benedictine University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. 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

2

Concordia University, Chicago
River Forest, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

27 Annual Graduates

Concordia University, Chicago is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large suburb of River Forest, Concordia University, Chicago is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Concordia University, Chicago

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

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

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	68
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	24
Human Resource Management	23
General Business/Commerce	4
Marketing	3

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.