2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in Washington

If you pursue a master's degree in business, management & marketing, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 11 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,590 master'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 Master's Degree

The business, management & marketing master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality business, management & marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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 master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master'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 - How many other business, management & marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• 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 master'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 schools for business, management & marketing students working on their master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Washington.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in Washington

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

10 Top Washington Schools for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing

1

Seattle University
Seattle, WA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

298 Annual Graduates

Seattle University is a great option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the city of Seattle, Seattle U is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Seattle University

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

708 Annual Graduates

University of Washington - Seattle Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business, management & marketing. UW Seattle is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Seattle.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of Washington - Seattle Campus

3

Washington State University
Pullman, WA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

494 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Washington State University if you want to pursue a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Wazzu is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Pullman.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Washington State University

4

Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

275 Annual Graduates

Gonzaga University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Gonzaga is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Spokane.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Gonzaga University

5

City University of Seattle
Seattle, WA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

66 Annual Graduates

CityU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Seattle.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from City University of Seattle

6

Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

33 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Bellingham, WWU is a public university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Western Washington University

7

Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

36 Annual Graduates

PLU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Tacoma.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Pacific Lutheran University

8

Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

420 Annual Graduates

EWU is a fairly large public university located in the fringe town of Cheney.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Eastern Washington University

9

Whitworth University
Spokane, WA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

Located in the large suburb of Spokane, Whitworth is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Whitworth University

10

University of Washington - Bothell Campus
Bothell, WA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

55 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of Bothell, UW Bothell is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of Washington - Bothell Campus

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	33	17,998
Oregon	29	954
Hawaii	27	238
Nevada	27	396
Alaska	21	119

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	1,966
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	355
Accounting	171
Taxation	52
Entrepreneurial Studies	41
General Business/Commerce	3
Human Resource Management	2

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.