2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Connecticut

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General Business/Commerce is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 56,779 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Connecticut, there were 777 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 191 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,483 and $40,369 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general business/commerce. That schools that top this list have a program in general business/commerce in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Connecticut

1

Post University
Waterbury, Connecticut

#11 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Post University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut. Post University is located in Waterbury, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 170 masters’s general business degrees to qualified students.

Full Post University General Business/Commerce Report

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Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, Connecticut

#21 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Connecticut. Western Connecticut State University is located in Danbury, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 21 masters’s general business degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Western Connecticut State University General Business/Commerce Report

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

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Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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