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Largest business schools in Georgia by degrees awarded

40 business schools in Georgia awarded 5,961 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 12th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus awarded the most, 1,776. 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
1Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus1,77613th of 1,232
2University of Georgia59465th of 1,232
3Emory University50688th of 1,232
4Georgia State University47996th of 1,232
5Mercer University453104th of 1,232
6Kennesaw State University280204th of 1,232
7Georgia Southern University198266th of 1,232
8Clayton State University163303rd of 1,232
9Savannah College of Art and Design122372nd of 1,232
10Valdosta State University120374th of 1,232
11Strayer University-Georgia105412th of 1,232
12Point University103419th of 1,232
13University of West Georgia98427th of 1,232
14Georgia Southwestern State University95432nd of 1,232
15South University-Savannah Online90450th of 1,232
16Columbus State University88460th of 1,232
17Georgia College & State University73516th of 1,232
18Middle Georgia State University66547th of 1,232
19University of North Georgia63562nd of 1,232
20Shorter University52631st of 1,232
21Augusta University39717th of 1,232
22Albany State University38723rd of 1,232
22American InterContinental University-Atlanta38723rd of 1,232
24Savannah State University35753rd of 1,232
25Reinhardt University34761st of 1,232
26Beulah Heights University31800th of 1,232
27Brenau University30807th of 1,232
28Clark Atlanta University29817th of 1,232
29Herzing University-Atlanta27835th of 1,232
30Berry College25862nd of 1,232
31Oglethorpe University21917th of 1,232
32Truett McConnell University20933rd of 1,232
33Piedmont University151,006th of 1,232
33Wesleyan College151,006th of 1,232
35Thomas University141,028th of 1,232
36Luther Rice College & Seminary91,091st of 1,232
37Toccoa Falls College71,122nd of 1,232
38DeVry University-Georgia41,177th of 1,232
38South University-Savannah41,177th of 1,232
40Agnes Scott College21,205th 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.
  • Every institution in Georgia in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
  • The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.

Sources

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