Ranking

Largest business schools in Pennsylvania by degrees awarded

The University of Pennsylvania ranks first with 788 master’s degrees in business in 2024–25, according to IPEDS.

75 business schools in Pennsylvania awarded 7,917 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 9th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. University of Pennsylvania awarded the most, 788. 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	University of Pennsylvania	788	42nd of 1,232
2	Eastern University	763	43rd of 1,232
3	Pennsylvania State University-World Campus	756	44th of 1,232
4	Harrisburg University of Science and Technology	374	132nd of 1,232
5	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	369	134th of 1,232
6	Villanova University	368	136th of 1,232
7	Temple University	332	164th of 1,232
8	Carnegie Mellon University	307	183rd of 1,232
9	University of Scranton	291	198th of 1,232
10	Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia	269	211th of 1,232
11	Drexel University	245	222nd of 1,232
12	West Chester University of Pennsylvania	242	227th of 1,232
13	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	211	247th of 1,232
14	Gannon University	175	285th of 1,232
15	Marywood University	162	304th of 1,232
16	Duquesne University	138	343rd of 1,232
17	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	134	350th of 1,232
18	Robert Morris University	132	355th of 1,232
19	La Salle University	113	393rd of 1,232
20	Pennsylvania Western University	107	405th of 1,232
21	Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania	85	466th of 1,232
22	Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania	78	495th of 1,232
23	DeSales University	66	547th of 1,232
23	Lehigh University	66	547th of 1,232
23	Widener University	66	547th of 1,232
26	Point Park University	59	589th of 1,232
27	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley	58	602nd of 1,232
28	Thomas Jefferson University	55	615th of 1,232
29	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg	53	628th of 1,232
30	Alvernia University	51	642nd of 1,232
31	Seton Hill University	49	653rd of 1,232
32	Moravian University	42	693rd of 1,232
33	Delaware Valley University	41	700th of 1,232
33	Saint Francis University	41	700th of 1,232
35	Carlow University	40	711th of 1,232
35	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania	40	711th of 1,232
37	Lebanon Valley College	39	717th of 1,232
38	Mercyhurst University	38	723rd of 1,232
39	Peirce College	35	753rd of 1,232
40	Elizabethtown College	33	778th of 1,232
40	York College of Pennsylvania	33	778th of 1,232
42	Misericordia University	32	787th of 1,232
42	Rosemont College	32	787th of 1,232
44	Strayer University-Pennsylvania	31	800th of 1,232
45	East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania	30	807th of 1,232
46	Kutztown University of Pennsylvania	28	829th of 1,232
47	Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College	27	835th of 1,232
47	Waynesburg University	27	835th of 1,232
49	Juniata College	26	848th of 1,232
50	Holy Family University	24	876th of 1,232
50	La Roche University	24	876th of 1,232
50	Wilkes University	24	876th of 1,232
53	Cairn University-Langhorne	23	889th of 1,232
54	Chatham University	21	917th of 1,232
54	Gwynedd Mercy University	21	917th of 1,232
54	University of Valley Forge	21	917th of 1,232
57	Messiah University	20	933rd of 1,232
58	Lincoln University	19	945th of 1,232
59	Albright College	17	977th of 1,232
60	Neumann University	12	1,051st of 1,232
60	Saint Vincent College	12	1,051st of 1,232
60	Thiel College	12	1,051st of 1,232
63	Geneva College	11	1,063rd of 1,232
64	Westminster College	10	1,079th of 1,232
65	Cedar Crest College	9	1,091st of 1,232
66	Lancaster Bible College	8	1,109th of 1,232
66	Mount Aloysius College	8	1,109th of 1,232
68	Central Penn College	7	1,122nd of 1,232
68	Chestnut Hill College	7	1,122nd of 1,232
68	Keystone College	7	1,122nd of 1,232
68	Wilson College	7	1,122nd of 1,232
72	Gratz College	6	1,144th of 1,232
73	Muhlenberg College	5	1,155th of 1,232
74	Immaculata University	3	1,194th of 1,232
75	Arcadia University	2	1,205th 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.
2 institutions in Pennsylvania in NCES’s file awarded 48 master’s degrees in business and are not ranked here, because they have no college page: they are 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.

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