2024 Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Business Administration & Management is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 37 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for business administration & management students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,821 bachelor'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 Bachelor's Degree

The business administration bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

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 ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 bachelor'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 bachelor'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 colleges for business administration & management students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Business Administration & Management Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business Administration & Management Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Massachusetts

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in business administration & management.

10 Top Massachusetts Schools for a Bachelor's in Business Administration

1

Boston University
Boston, MA

638 Annual Graduates

$60,547 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

Boston University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from Boston University receive an earnings boost of around $12,036 above the typical earnings of business administration & management graduates.

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2

Bentley University
Waltham, MA

140 Annual Graduates

$60,797 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in business administration & management has to check out Bentley University. Bentley is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Waltham.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from Bentley University receive an earnings boost of approximately $12,286 above the typical earnings of business administration & management majors.

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3

Babson College
Wellesley, MA

607 Annual Graduates

$61,039 Median Starting Salary

$23,000 Median Student Debt

Babson College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Located in the suburb of Wellesley, Babson College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Business Administration & Management bachelor's degree recipients from Babson College get an earnings boost of approximately $12,528 above the average income of business administration & management majors.

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4

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA

280 Annual Graduates

$54,919 Median Starting Salary

$22,014 Median Student Debt

It's difficult to beat University of Massachusetts Amherst if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in business administration & management. Located in the suburb of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at University of Massachusetts Amherst earn $6,408 more than the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

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5

Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA

94 Annual Graduates

$66,885 Median Starting Salary

$17,873 Median Student Debt

Boston College is a fairly large private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Chestnut Hill.

Bachelor's recipients from the business administration & management degree program at Boston College make $18,374 more than the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.

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6

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA

623 Annual Graduates

$46,402 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

Located in the suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the business administration program make about $46,402 for their early career.

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7

Suffolk University
Boston, MA

103 Annual Graduates

$42,566 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

Suffolk is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the business administration program state that they receive average early career wages of $42,566.

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8

Bay Path University
Longmeadow, MA

172 Annual Graduates

$54,252 Median Starting Salary

$32,015 Median Student Debt

Bay Path is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Longmeadow.

Bachelor's recipients from the business administration & management major at Bay Path University make $5,741 above the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

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9

Clark University
Worcester, MA

50 Annual Graduates

$26,000 Median Student Debt

Clark is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Worcester.More information about a bachelor’s in business administration & management from Clark University

10

University of Massachusetts - Boston
Boston, MA

456 Annual Graduates

$47,484 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

UMass Boston is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Boston.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the business administration program make around $47,484 in the first couple years of their career.

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Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	183	1,615
New Hampshire	157	5,045
Rhode Island	157	734
Maine	156	493
Vermont	155	493

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Rankings in Majors Related to Business Administration

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

Business Administration Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	4,348
Supply Chain Management	212
Interior Design Management	145
Operations Management	63
Organizational Leadership	53

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Business/Commerce	1,377
Finance & Financial Management	1,354
Marketing	1,214
Accounting	1,129
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	390
Hospitality Management	281
International Business	253
Other Business, Management & Marketing	200
Entrepreneurial Studies	118
Construction Management	106

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.