2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Ranked #1 in popularity, business, management & marketing is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 43 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 10,897 bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree

The business, management & marketing bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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 ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

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

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 bachelor'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 much debt business, management & marketing students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 colleges for business, management & marketing students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in Illinois

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

10 Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Business, Management & Marketing

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

1,228 Annual Graduates

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

930 Annual Graduates

DePaul University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from DePaul University

3

Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

670 Annual Graduates

Loyola University Chicago is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in business, management & marketing. Located in the city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from Loyola University Chicago

4

Wheaton College Illinois
Wheaton, IL

74 Annual Graduates

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

5

Illinois State University
Normal, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

1,009 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from Illinois State University

6

Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

463 Annual Graduates

NIU is a large public university located in the suburb of Dekalb.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from Northern Illinois University

7

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

921 Annual Graduates

UIC is a very large public university located in the large city of Chicago.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from University of Illinois at Chicago

8

Augustana College
Rock Island, IL

182 Annual Graduates

Augustana is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Rock Island.More information about a bachelor’s in business, management & marketing from Augustana College

9

Elmhurst University
Elmhurst, IL

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

172 Annual Graduates

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

10

Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL

94 Annual Graduates

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

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	35	12,566
Ohio	34	15,162
Indiana	33	10,524
Wisconsin	31	8,502

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	3,383
Accounting	1,749
Finance & Financial Management	1,737
Marketing	1,607
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	738
Management Information Systems	377
General Business/Commerce	320
Human Resource Management	210
Business/Managerial Economics	154
International Business	123

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.