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

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 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 230 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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

The business, management & marketing doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business, management & marketing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other business, management & marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for business, management & marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Arizona list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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

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

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

1

Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

33 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing has to take a look at Grand Canyon University. Located in the city of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from Grand Canyon University

2

University of Phoenix - Arizona
Phoenix, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

77 Annual Graduates

University of Phoenix - Arizona is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. UOPX - Arizona is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the large city of Phoenix.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Phoenix - Arizona

3

American InterContinental University - Online
Chandler, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

99 Annual Graduates

American InterContinental University - Online is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large city of Chandler, AIU Online is a private for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from American InterContinental University - Online

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	29	203
Oklahoma	26	26
New Mexico	23	8

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	219
Management Information Systems	11

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.