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

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 6 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 183 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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 account for this we consider 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.

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 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.

More Ways to Rank Business, Management & Marketing Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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

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

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

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

28 Annual Graduates

University of Pennsylvania is a great decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. UPenn is a very 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

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

24 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing has to check out Temple University. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Temple University

3

University of Scranton
Scranton, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing has to check out University of Scranton. Located in the small 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

4

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

33 Annual Graduates

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

5

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

6

Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

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

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	30	130
Maryland	29	88
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	93
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	40
General Business/Commerce	16
Accounting	14
Finance & Financial Management	8
Hospitality Management	6
Human Resource Management	6

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.