2025 Best General Business/Commerce Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
59Doctor's Degrees
General Business/Commerce is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #76 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast 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 59 doctor's degrees in general business/commerce during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Business/Commerce School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general business/commerce for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general business program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor'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 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 full 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
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Business/Commerce Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Business/Commerce in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general business/commerce.
Top Southeast 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).