Ranked #1 in popularity, business, management & marketing is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 169 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region 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 36,556 master'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 Master's Degree
Your choice of business, management & marketing for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 - The number of business, management & marketing students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 master's degree.
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 master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
25 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing
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Additional Noteworthy Schools
Here are some additional great schools for Business, Management & Marketing students in the Middle Atlantic Region that almost earned our Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region award.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of business, management & marketing for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
