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

Business, Management & Marketing is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in New Hampshire 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 5,553 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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

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 Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire list to help you make the college decision.

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

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for business, management & marketing students seeking a a master's degree.

Top New Hampshire Schools for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing

1

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

4,876 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to look into Southern New Hampshire University. SNHU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Manchester.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Southern New Hampshire University

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, NH

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

121 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing needs to check out University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. Located in the fringe town of Durham, UNH is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

3

New England College
Henniker, NH

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

128 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to take a look at New England College. NEC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Henniker.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from New England College

4

Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

33 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to look into Franklin Pierce University. Franklin Pierce is a small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Rindge.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Franklin Pierce University

5

Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

50 Annual Graduates

Plymouth State is a small public university located in the town of Plymouth.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Plymouth State University

6

Rivier University
Nashua, NH

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

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

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	34	10,515
Rhode Island	32	940
Connecticut	30	3,141
Maine	27	276
Vermont	25	364

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	3,866
Accounting	439
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	408
Human Resource Management	407
Marketing	225
General Business/Commerce	108
Finance & Financial Management	100

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.