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2023 Best Business & Commerce Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

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$74,610 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Business/Commerce Master's Degree School for You

General Business/Commerce is the #16 most popular major in the country with 56,042 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Business & Commerce Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 9 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best General Business/Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region

Check out the general business master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.

Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Business & Commerce

Our analysis found Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be the best school for general business/commerce students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the New England Region . MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best general business/commerce schools in the New England Region . WPI is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Worcester.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Business & Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Northeastern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

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#4

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Business & Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Business & Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Northeastern University Professional Advancement Network is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Best Business & Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. UNH is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Durham.

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Western Connecticut State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Business & Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. WestConn is a small public school located in the city of Danbury.

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#8

Post University

Waterbury, CT

Post University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Business & Commerce Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Post University is a large private for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Waterbury.

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#9

New England College

Henniker, NH

New England College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for general business/commerce students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the rural area of Henniker, NEC is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

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Best General Business/Commerce Colleges by State

Explore the best general business/commerce colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 2,076
Connecticut 691
New Hampshire 291
Maine 75
Rhode Island 136
Vermont 96

One of 21 majors within the area of study, general business/commerce has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to General Business

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Accounting 99,265
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).
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