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

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 18 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 3,428 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. 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 take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various 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 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

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 Minnesota list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

634 Annual Graduates

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business, management & marketing. UMN Twin Cities is a very large public university located in the city of Minneapolis.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

2

University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

246 Annual Graduates

University of St Thomas Minnesota is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business, management & marketing. UST MN is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Paul.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from University of St Thomas Minnesota

3

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, MN

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

209 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to look into Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. SMU MN is a small private not-for-profit university located in the distant town of Winona.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

4

Bethel University Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

59 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in business, management & marketing has to look into Bethel University Minnesota. Bethel University Minnesota is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Saint Paul.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Bethel University Minnesota

5

St Catherine University
Saint Paul, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

59 Annual Graduates

St. Kate's is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from St Catherine University

6

Augsburg University
Minneapolis, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

53 Annual Graduates

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

7

Rasmussen University - Minnesota
St. Cloud, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

161 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of St. Cloud, Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a private for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Rasmussen University - Minnesota

8

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

60 Annual Graduates

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

9

Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Moorhead, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

25 Annual Graduates

Located in the medium-sized suburb of Moorhead, MSU Moorhead is a public university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Minnesota State University - Moorhead

10

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

34 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Saint Cloud, St. Cloud State University is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in business, management & marketing from Saint Cloud State University

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	32	5,484
Kansas	30	1,972
Iowa	29	1,528
Nebraska	29	1,490
North Dakota	28	401
South Dakota	25	241

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	2,506
Human Resource Management	562
Accounting	165
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	143
Taxation	27
Marketing	16
Finance & Financial Management	6
Management Information Systems	3

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.