2024 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky

If you pursue a doctor's degree in business administration & management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #10 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 93 doctor's degrees in business administration & management during the 2020-2021 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 many resources a school devotes to business administration & management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business administration & management 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 administration & management 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 administration & management related body.

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

One Size Does Not Fit All

The business administration 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 Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky.

 

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Kentucky

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

Top Kentucky Schools for a Doctorate in Business Administration

1

University of the Cumberlands
Williamsburg, KY

78 Annual Graduates

$69,532 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat University of the Cumberlands if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business administration & management. Located in the remote town of Williamsburg, Cumberlands is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

After graduating, business administration doctorate recipients usually make about $69,532 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from University of the Cumberlands

2

Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, KY

8 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Campbellsville University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in business administration & management. Campbellsville University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the town of Campbellsville.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Campbellsville University

 

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	148
Virginia	127	134
Georgia	126	30
North Carolina	115	59
Mississippi	113	15
Louisiana	103	23
Tennessee	102	157
Alabama	98	56
South Carolina	91	37
Arkansas	58	13
West Virginia	49	1

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Business Administration & Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Business Administration & Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Business Administration Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Organizational Leadership	69
General Business Administration and Management	23
Interior Design Management	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business/Commerce	2
Entrepreneurial Studies	2

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.