Ranking

Largest business schools in Wisconsin by degrees awarded

The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranks first with 448 master’s degrees in business in 2024–25, according to IPEDS.

28 business schools in Wisconsin awarded 2,171 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 30th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded the most, 448. 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 Wisconsin-Madison	448	107th of 1,232
2	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	288	200th of 1,232
3	University of Wisconsin-Whitewater	283	203rd of 1,232
4	University of Wisconsin-Parkside	227	233rd of 1,232
5	Marquette University	145	334th of 1,232
6	University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire	118	376th of 1,232
7	Concordia University-Wisconsin	90	450th of 1,232
8	Edgewood University	88	460th of 1,232
9	Lakeland University	66	547th of 1,232
10	University of Wisconsin-Platteville	60	585th of 1,232
11	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	47	663rd of 1,232
12	University of Wisconsin-Green Bay	41	700th of 1,232
13	University of Wisconsin-Stout	35	753rd of 1,232
14	Herzing University-Madison	33	778th of 1,232
15	University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point	32	787th of 1,232
15	Viterbo University	32	787th of 1,232
17	Carroll University	27	835th of 1,232
18	Milwaukee School of Engineering	24	876th of 1,232
19	University of Wisconsin-River Falls	23	889th of 1,232
20	Carthage College	20	933rd of 1,232
21	Saint Norbert College	11	1,063rd of 1,232
22	Marian University	9	1,091st of 1,232
23	Alverno College	7	1,122nd of 1,232
23	Maranatha Baptist University	7	1,122nd of 1,232
25	Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University	3	1,194th of 1,232
25	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	3	1,194th of 1,232
27	Herzing University-Brookfield	2	1,205th of 1,232
27	Ottawa University-Milwaukee	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.
Every institution in Wisconsin 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