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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Massachusetts

5 Ranked Colleges
394 Degrees Awarded
$37,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value General Business Schools for a Master's in Massachusetts

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Business/Commerce is the 13th most popular major in the country with 55,749 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,821 and had an average of $25,596 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 2,264 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,675 and $23,989 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 394 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general business/commerce. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general business/commerce programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general business/commerce program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts.

Top 5 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Massachusetts

#1

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts. Northeastern University is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 156 masters’s general business degrees in 2019-2020.

Northeastern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Business/Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern are $25,558.

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#2

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts list. WPI is a medium-sized school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 12 masters’s general business degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WPI, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Business/Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are $29,040.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts. This fairly large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 174 masters’s general business degrees in 2019-2020.

Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best General Business/Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network are $24,938, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Business/Commerce at Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network

#4

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general business degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

Harvard also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Business/Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard are $50,654.

Read more about General Business/Commerce at Harvard

#5

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value General Business Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general business degrees to 40 students in 2019-2020.

MIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Business/Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are $56,719.

Read more about General Business/Commerce at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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