2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business Management & Marketing in the Southwest Region

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In 2021-2022, 4,606 people earned their degree in business management & marketing, making the major the 163rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,794 business management & marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 78 business management & marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in business management & marketing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their business management & marketing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree business management & marketing students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business Management & Marketing in the Southwest Region

1

Amberton University
Garland, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Amberton University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Garland, Texas, and it awarded 14 masters’s business management & marketing degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Business Management & Marketing at Amberton University

2

Saint Edward's University
Austin, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Edward’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region. Saint Edward’s University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 58 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Business Management & Marketing at Saint Edward’s University

3

Oklahoma Christian University
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s business management & marketing students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Oklahoma Christian University Business Management & Marketing Report

4

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

#11 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Management & Marketing Major in the Southwest Region. TCU is located in Fort Worth, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s business management & marketing degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Business Management & Marketing at Texas Christian University

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Amit Savargaonkar.