If you pursue a master's degree in business, management & marketing, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in North Dakota to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 336 master's degrees in business, management & marketing during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Business, Management & Marketing School for Your Master's Degree
The business, management & marketing master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality business, management & marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 account for this we consider 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 business, management & marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other business, management & 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 business, management & 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 business, management & marketing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business, management & marketing students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Business, Management & Marketing Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree Schools in North Dakota ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in North Dakota
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in business, management & marketing.
Top North Dakota Schools for a Master's in Business, Management & Marketing
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).