2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Washington

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In 2020-2021, 56,042 general business/commerce students received their degree, making the major the 10th most popular in the country.

Across Washington, there were 2,158 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 67 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general business/commerce. That schools that top this list have a program in general business/commerce in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Washington

1

Gonzaga University
Spokane, Washington

#4 overall quality in Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gonzaga University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington list. Gonzaga University is a medium-sized school located in Spokane, Washington that handed out 65 masters’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Gonzaga General Business/Commerce Report

2

Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Seattle Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington list. SPU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 2 masters’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Business/Commerce at Seattle Pacific University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce

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.

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