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

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 7 schools in Rhode Island to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 811 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 collection 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

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 Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

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

Top Rhode Island Schools for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing

1

Brown University
Providence, RI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

38 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to look into Brown University. Brown is a large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Providence.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Brown University

2

Providence College
Providence, RI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

127 Annual Graduates

Providence College is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in a master's degree in business, management & marketing. Providence is a small private not-for-profit college located in the midsize city of Providence.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Providence College

3

Bryant University
Smithfield, RI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

160 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing needs to look into Bryant University. Located in the large suburb of Smithfield, Bryant is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Bryant University

4

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

116 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to check out University of Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of Rhode Island

5

Johnson & Wales University - Online
Providence, RI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

230 Annual Graduates

Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, JWU Online is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Johnson & Wales University - Online

6

Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Providence, RI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

45 Annual Graduates

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

7

Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

62 Annual Graduates

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

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

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	34	10,515
Connecticut	30	3,141
New Hampshire	27	4,022
Maine	27	276
Vermont	25	364

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	513
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	96
Hospitality Management	76
Human Resource Management	40
Finance & Financial Management	34
Accounting	25
International Business	11
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	10
Management Information Systems	4
Taxation	1

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.