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Largest business schools in Alabama by degrees awarded

22 business schools in Alabama awarded 4,349 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 19th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. Columbia Southern University awarded the most, 1,247. A business school here is a college that awarded at least one master’s degree in any program of NCES’s CIP family 52, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services: the MBA and every other business master’s alike. The rule is broad by construction.

Master’s degrees in business awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection

Master’s degrees in business awarded, July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
RankNamemaster’s degrees in businessNationally
1Columbia Southern University1,24724th of 1,232
2The University of Alabama51584th of 1,232
3Auburn University441110th of 1,232
4University of Alabama at Birmingham390126th of 1,232
5University of North Alabama366138th of 1,232
6Troy University344159th of 1,232
7Faulkner University204260th of 1,232
8Athens State University118376th of 1,232
9University of Alabama in Huntsville112395th of 1,232
10University of West Alabama110398th of 1,232
11Samford University78495th of 1,232
12Auburn University at Montgomery74508th of 1,232
13Alabama State University72517th of 1,232
14Jacksonville State University45679th of 1,232
15Spring Hill College41700th of 1,232
16University of Montevallo37733rd of 1,232
17Amridge University34761st of 1,232
17University of Mobile34761st of 1,232
19University of South Alabama32787th of 1,232
20Alabama A & M University29817th of 1,232
21Talladega College23889th of 1,232
22Oakwood University31,194th of 1,232

What this data cannot show

  • How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
  • First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
  • Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
  • The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
  • 1 institution in Alabama in NCES’s file awarded 27 master’s degrees in business and is not ranked here, because it has no college page: it is outside NCES’s First Look universe of colleges that take federal student aid.
  • The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.

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