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

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 46 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 8,961 master's degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.

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 account for this we consider a school'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 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 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 Pennsylvania.

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

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

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

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

1,520 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Pennsylvania if you want to pursue a master's degree in business, management & marketing. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of Pennsylvania

2

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

346 Annual Graduates

Carnegie Mellon University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Carnegie Mellon University

3

Villanova University
Villanova, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

536 Annual Graduates

Villanova University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Villanova.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Villanova University

4

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

437 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to take a look at Temple University. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Temple University

5

University of Scranton
Scranton, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

262 Annual Graduates

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

6

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

98 Annual Graduates

Lehigh is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Bethlehem.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Lehigh University

7

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

270 Annual Graduates

Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

8

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

325 Annual Graduates

Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Drexel University

9

Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

415 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Philadelphia, St. Joe's is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Saint Joseph’s University

10

Robert Morris University
Moon Township, PA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

134 Annual Graduates

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

Honorable Mentions

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania award.

Rank	College	Location
11	Duquesne University	Pittsburgh, PA
12	DeSales University	Center Valley, PA
13	Lebanon Valley College	Annville, PA
14	Elizabethtown College	Elizabethtown, PA
15	Moravian College	Bethlehem, PA

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	35	15,080
New Jersey	32	3,779
Maryland	32	5,219
District of Columbia	32	3,265
Delaware	24	1,211

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	4,497
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	1,995
Human Resource Management	608
Accounting	428
Entrepreneurial Studies	400
General Business/Commerce	375
Finance & Financial Management	223
Marketing	201
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	89
Taxation	43

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.