2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 56,042 people earned their degree in general business/commerce, making the major the 16th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,399 and had an average of $26,389 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 3,482 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,313 and $20,424 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree general business students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in the New England Region

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in the New England Region. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a fairly large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 18 doctorate’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on General Business/Commerce at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 7 doctorate’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Business/Commerce at University of Rhode Island

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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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