Skip to content
American Factbook
Menu

Largest business schools in Michigan by degrees awarded

33 business schools in Michigan awarded 4,397 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 18th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor awarded the most, 944. 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
1University of Michigan-Ann Arbor94435th of 1,232
2Michigan State University64756th of 1,232
3Wayne State University362143rd of 1,232
4Central Michigan University361146th of 1,232
5Northwood University220239th of 1,232
6Oakland University181278th of 1,232
7Davenport University169292nd of 1,232
8Cleary University167294th of 1,232
9Walsh College143336th of 1,232
10University of Michigan-Dearborn128360th of 1,232
11Western Michigan University124368th of 1,232
12University of Michigan-Flint123371st of 1,232
13Eastern Michigan University115385th of 1,232
14Grand Valley State University105412th of 1,232
15Kettering University98427th of 1,232
16University of Detroit Mercy60585th of 1,232
17Lawrence Technological University52631st of 1,232
18Baker College47663rd of 1,232
19Michigan Technological University43690th of 1,232
20Siena Heights University38723rd of 1,232
21Northern Michigan University31800th of 1,232
22Adrian College29817th of 1,232
23Spring Arbor University27835th of 1,232
24The University of Olivet26848th of 1,232
25Calvin University25862nd of 1,232
25Ferris State University25862nd of 1,232
27Madonna University23889th of 1,232
28Saginaw Valley State University22903rd of 1,232
29Andrews University18963rd of 1,232
30Cornerstone University151,006th of 1,232
31Concordia University Ann Arbor131,039th of 1,232
32Grace Christian University101,079th of 1,232
33Aquinas College61,144th 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 Michigan 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.

Related

Sources

Data retrieved