2024 Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

If you pursue a master's degree in business administration & management, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Delaware to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 782 master's degrees in business administration & management during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of business administration & management 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master'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 master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on business administration & management students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a master'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 easy is it for business administration & management to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Business Administration & Management Master's Degree Schools in Delaware list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Delaware

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for business administration & management students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Delaware Schools for a Master's in Business Administration

1

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

187 Annual Graduates

$93,960 Median Starting Salary

It is difficult to beat University of Delaware if you want to pursue a master's degree in business administration & management. UD is a very large public university located in the suburb of Newark.

Those business administration & management students who get their master's degree from University of Delaware earn $27,674 more than the standard business administration graduate.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from University of Delaware

2

Wilmington University
New Castle, DE

498 Annual Graduates

$63,163 Median Starting Salary

Wilmington University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the large suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

Soon after graduating, business administration master's recipients usually make an average of $63,163 in their early careers.

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3

Goldey - Beacom College
Wilmington, DE

66 Annual Graduates

$53,034 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Goldey - Beacom College if you want to pursue a master's degree in business administration & management. Goldey - Beacom College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Wilmington.

Students who graduate with their master's from the business administration program state that they receive average early career income of $53,034.

More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Goldey - Beacom College

4

Delaware State University
Dover, DE

21 Annual Graduates

Delaware State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in business administration & management. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in business administration & management from Delaware State University

 

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	6,051
Pennsylvania	248	4,212
Maryland	193	3,128
New Jersey	188	2,407
District of Columbia	154	2,001

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Rankings in Majors Related to Business Administration

Business Administration & Management is one of 21 different types of Business, Management & Marketing programs to choose from.

Business Administration Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	751
Organizational Leadership	25
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	6

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Finance & Financial Management	149
Accounting	71
Management Information Systems	63
Human Resource Management	38
International Business	33
Marketing	26
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	22
Taxation	12
Hospitality Management	7
Entrepreneurial Studies	6

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.