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

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.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 82 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

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

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 Georgia list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

1

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Georgia if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. UGA is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Athens.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Georgia

2

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

24 Annual Graduates

Georgia State University is a great option for students pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Georgia State is a very large public university located in the city of Atlanta.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Georgia State University

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	29	160
Virginia	29	246
Mississippi	28	21
South Carolina	28	39
North Carolina	26	67
Kentucky	26	97
Alabama	25	68
Tennessee	25	173
Louisiana	25	35
Arkansas	23	13
West Virginia	20	37

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	54
General Business/Commerce	20
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	8

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.