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

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General Business/Commerce is the 16th most popular major in the country with 56,042 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Washington, there were 2,158 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,915 and $19,881 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.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington” 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 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

$72,550 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Gonzaga University landed the #1 spot on the list. Gonzaga is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Spokane, Washington. It awarded 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 University General Business/Commerce Report

2

Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Seattle Pacific University landed the #2 spot on the list. SPU is a small school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 2 masters’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SPU General Business/Commerce Report

• 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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