Marketing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #54 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for marketing students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 320 master's degrees in marketing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Marketing School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of marketing for getting your master's degree school matters. 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 good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 much debt marketing students go into to obtain their master'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 marketing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for marketing students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marketing Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Marketing in Massachusetts
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for marketing students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in Marketing
It is difficult to beat Boston University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in marketing. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the marketing program report average early career earnings of $61,136.
Emerson College is a great choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in marketing. Emerson is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Boston.
Marketing master's degree recipients from Emerson College earn a boost of approximately $5,854 over the average earnings of marketing majors.
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).