Ranking

Largest business schools in Missouri by degrees awarded

Washington University in St Louis ranks first with 719 master’s degrees in business in 2024–25, according to IPEDS.

32 business schools in Missouri awarded 3,700 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 22nd of the 51 states and DC with a business school. Washington University in St Louis awarded the most, 719. 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

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Master’s degrees in business awarded, July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
Rank	Name	Figure	Nationally
1	Washington University in St Louis	719	48th of 1,232
2	Webster University	535	78th of 1,232
3	University of Missouri-Columbia	300	190th of 1,232
4	Missouri State University-Springfield	237	229th of 1,232
5	University of Missouri-Kansas City	214	245th of 1,232
6	Lindenwood University	169	292nd of 1,232
7	University of Missouri-St Louis	166	296th of 1,232
8	Maryville University of Saint Louis	165	299th of 1,232
8	Northwest Missouri State University	165	299th of 1,232
8	Saint Louis University	165	299th of 1,232
11	Park University	145	334th of 1,232
12	Columbia College	118	376th of 1,232
13	University of Central Missouri	88	460th of 1,232
14	Rockhurst University	74	508th of 1,232
15	Southeast Missouri State University	69	532nd of 1,232
16	Avila University	61	573rd of 1,232
17	William Woods University	41	700th of 1,232
18	Culver-Stockton College	38	723rd of 1,232
19	Missouri Baptist University	36	742nd of 1,232
20	Missouri Western State University	34	761st of 1,232
21	Truman State University	30	807th of 1,232
22	Drury University	26	848th of 1,232
23	Evangel University	22	903rd of 1,232
24	Southwest Baptist University	18	963rd of 1,232
25	Missouri Southern State University	17	977th of 1,232
26	Missouri University of Science and Technology	12	1,051st of 1,232
27	Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies	11	1,063rd of 1,232
28	City Vision University	10	1,079th of 1,232
29	Bryan University	5	1,155th of 1,232
29	Hannibal-LaGrange University	5	1,155th of 1,232
31	Lincoln University	4	1,177th of 1,232
32	Mission University	1	1,222nd 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 Missouri 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

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.

Compiled automatically from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 30, 2026