2025 Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #9 out of 36 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 112 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

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 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

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 business, management & marketing students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business, management & marketing students who choose to seek a doctor'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 much debt business, management & marketing 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 business, management & marketing related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for business, management & marketing students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Business, Management & Marketing Schools

The business, management & marketing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in the Rocky Mountains Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Doctorate in Business, Management & Marketing

1

University of Denver
Denver, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing needs to take a look at University of Denver. DU is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Denver

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing has to take a look at University of Utah. Located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in business, management & marketing from University of Utah

Best Business, Management & Marketing Colleges by State

Explore the best business, management & marketing colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	27	105
Utah	24	11
Wyoming	12	1

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Business, Management & Marketing Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management	91
General Business/Commerce	11
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	10

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar. More about our data sources and methodologies.