Best Colleges for Business

Since 1980, business has been the most popular major at U.S. colleges and universities, with over 180,000 graduating degree holders each year. Business is a broad, umbrella major, including elements of finance, sales, marketing, management, and accounting and degree earners often enter a wide array of fields. Those seeking advanced positions in major corporations often pursue an MBA or other graduate degree. Whether a young person is seeking an entry-level job with a strong starting salary or has their eye on an elite graduate school, the institutions listed below in our Best Colleges for Business will give you a leg-up on the competition.

Click the links below for more information about each college’s business program. Click here to read our methodology.

Babson College

Bentley University

Boston College

Boston University

Brigham Young University

Bucknell University

Carnegie Mellon University

Claremont McKenna College

College of William and Mary

Cornell University

Emory University

Fordham University

Franklin and Marshall College

Georgetown University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Indiana University

Lehigh University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michigan State University

New York University

Northeastern University

Ohio State University

Penn State University

Purdue University

Rhodes College

Rutgers University

Santa Clara University

Southern Methodist University

Texas A&M University

University of California, Berkeley

University of Florida

University of Georgia

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Richmond

University of Southern California

University of Texas at Austin

University of Virginia

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin – Madison

Villanova University

Wake Forest University

Washington and Lee University

Washington University in St. Louis

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