2025 Best General Business/Commerce Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
General Business/Commerce is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #28 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of general business/commerce. Combined, these schools handed out 413 master's degrees in general business/commerce to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Business/Commerce School for Your Master's Degree
The general business master'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. 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 quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college'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 general business/commerce students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of general business/commerce students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- 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 easy is it for general business/commerce to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general business/commerce related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general business/commerce students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Business/Commerce Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.