2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 17 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. 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. 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 take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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

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 schools for business, management & marketing students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Business, Management & Marketing Schools

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 in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Business, Management & Marketing

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

28 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Pennsylvania

2

George Washington University
Washington, DC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

George Washington University is a good option for students interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from George Washington University

3

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

24 Annual Graduates

Temple University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Temple is a very large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Temple University

4

University of Scranton
Scranton, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

University of Scranton is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the city of Scranton, University of Scranton is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Scranton

5

Fordham University
Bronx, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bronx.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Fordham University

6

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

33 Annual Graduates

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

7

Rutgers University - Newark
Newark, NJ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

37 Annual Graduates

Rutgers Newark is a large public university located in the city of Newark.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Rutgers University - Newark

8

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

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

9

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Pittsburgh.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

10

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

26 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Maryland - College Park

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best business, management & marketing schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	30	130
Maryland	29	88
Pennsylvania	29	150
New Jersey	28	29
District of Columbia	24	24
Delaware	21	44

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	292
General Business/Commerce	98
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	82
Human Resource Management	30
Accounting	14
Finance & Financial Management	8
Hospitality Management	8
General Sales & Marketing	3
Other Business, Management & Marketing	2
Construction Management	1

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.