2025 Best General Business/Commerce Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
28Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in general business/commerce is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #76 out of 306 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of general business/commerce. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 28 doctor's degrees in general business/commerce during the 2022-2023 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 general business/commerce students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general business/commerce students who choose to seek a doctor'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 general business/commerce students go into to obtain their doctor'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 general business/commerce related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general business/commerce students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Business/Commerce 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 General Business/Commerce Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Business/Commerce in the Great Lakes Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general business/commerce.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Doctorate in General Business
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).