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Best Business Colleges in Minnesota

By David Krug, Co-Founder, CollegeRanker · Updated 2026-05-31 · 46 schools · Agent Insights
46
Schools Analyzed
$53,893
Avg. Earnings (10yr)
53%
Avg. Graduation Rate
$17,756
Avg. Net Price

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This ranking scores 46 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.

Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.

The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.

Quick Numbers

Schools ranked 46
Avg. earnings at 10yr $53,893
Avg. graduation rate 53%
Avg. net price $17,756
Avg. median debt $18,743

How We Ranked

Business programs in Minnesota ranked by outcomes and program concentration

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Earnings vs. Cost

Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.

$15K$68K$120K$0$50KNET PRICESaint JohnsHamline UniversitySaint Mary'sConcordia CollegeAugsburg University

Graduation Rates

Longer bars = higher graduation rate.

Saint Johns University76%Hamline University59%Saint Mary's University …67%Concordia College at Moo…66%Augsburg University52%Gustavus Adolphus College76%College of Saint Benedict80%Bethany Lutheran College57%University of Minnesota-…50%University of St Thomas76%The College of Saint Sch…66%Dunwoody College of Tech…65%North Central University65%University of Minnesota-…85%St Catherine University63%University of Minnesota-…65%Minnesota State Universi…54%Metropolitan State Unive…42%University of Minnesota-…62%Bethel University73%

Top 3

#1

Saint Johns University

Collegeville, MN

Graduation76%
Earnings$76,786
Net Price$25,672

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#2

Hamline University

Saint Paul, MN

Graduation59%
Earnings$61,106
Net Price$20,744

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#3

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Winona, MN

Graduation67%
Earnings$58,170
Net Price$11,704

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Full Rankings

#1

Saint Johns University

Collegeville, MN · 1,395 students · Private nonprofit

91% accepted 76% graduate $76,786 earnings
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#2

Hamline University

Saint Paul, MN · 1,776 students · Private nonprofit

88% accepted 59% graduate $61,106 earnings
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#3

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Winona, MN · 1,073 students · Private nonprofit

93% accepted 67% graduate $58,170 earnings
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#4

Concordia College at Moorhead

Moorhead, MN · 1,829 students · Private nonprofit

63% accepted 66% graduate $59,317 earnings
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#5

Augsburg University

Minneapolis, MN · 2,494 students · Private nonprofit

82% accepted 52% graduate $58,829 earnings
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#6

Gustavus Adolphus College

Saint Peter, MN · 1,878 students · Private nonprofit

61% accepted 76% graduate $65,607 earnings
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#7

College of Saint Benedict

Saint Joseph, MN · 1,370 students · Private nonprofit

92% accepted 80% graduate $63,260 earnings
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#8

Bethany Lutheran College

Mankato, MN · 669 students · Private nonprofit

39% accepted 57% graduate $46,110 earnings
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#9

University of Minnesota-Crookston

Crookston, MN · 1,729 students · Public

88% accepted 50% graduate $58,056 earnings
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#10

University of St Thomas

Saint Paul, MN · 6,245 students · Private nonprofit

85% accepted 76% graduate $73,739 earnings
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#11

The College of Saint Scholastica

Duluth, MN · 1,765 students · Private nonprofit

93% accepted 66% graduate $65,934 earnings
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#12

Dunwoody College of Technology

Minneapolis, MN · 1,533 students · Private nonprofit

99% accepted 65% graduate $61,511 earnings
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#13

North Central University

Minneapolis, MN · 709 students · Private nonprofit

99% accepted 65% graduate $45,064 earnings
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#14

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN · 31,855 students · Public

80% accepted 85% graduate $69,020 earnings
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#15

St Catherine University

Saint Paul, MN · 2,473 students · Private nonprofit

92% accepted 63% graduate $59,282 earnings
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#16

University of Minnesota-Duluth

Duluth, MN · 7,336 students · Public

89% accepted 65% graduate $62,616 earnings
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#17

Minnesota State University-Mankato

Mankato, MN · 11,703 students · Public

88% accepted 54% graduate $56,922 earnings
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#18

Metropolitan State University

Saint Paul, MN · 5,616 students · Public

99% accepted 42% graduate $64,705 earnings
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#19

University of Minnesota-Morris

Morris, MN · 936 students · Public

75% accepted 62% graduate $50,919 earnings
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#20

Bethel University

Saint Paul, MN · 1,871 students · Private nonprofit

88% accepted 73% graduate $63,764 earnings
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#21

Saint Cloud State University

Saint Cloud, MN · 5,088 students · Public

95% accepted 44% graduate $55,813 earnings
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#22

Minnesota State University Moorhead

Moorhead, MN · 3,072 students · Public

59% accepted 56% graduate $50,527 earnings
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#23

Bemidji State University

Bemidji, MN · 3,139 students · Public

56% accepted 51% graduate $53,755 earnings
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#24

Winona State University

Winona, MN · 5,144 students · Public

75% accepted 59% graduate $58,532 earnings
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#25

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, MN · 796 students · Private nonprofit

23% accepted 54% graduate $48,057 earnings
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#26

North Hennepin Community College

Brooklyn Park, MN · 3,451 students · Public

19% graduate $51,142 earnings
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#27

Dakota County Technical College

Rosemount, MN · 2,168 students · Public

52% graduate $51,938 earnings
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#28

Concordia University-Saint Paul

Saint Paul, MN · 3,018 students · Private nonprofit

79% accepted 52% graduate $59,871 earnings
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#29

Normandale Community College

Bloomington, MN · 7,044 students · Public

23% graduate $50,207 earnings
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#30

Southwest Minnesota State University

Marshall, MN · 2,315 students · Public

62% accepted 45% graduate $51,342 earnings
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#31

University of Northwestern-St Paul

Saint Paul, MN · 1,442 students · Private nonprofit

93% accepted 68% graduate $50,755 earnings
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#32

Alexandria Technical & Community College

Alexandria, MN · 1,533 students · Public

60% graduate $49,393 earnings
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#33

Minnesota State Community and Technical College

Fergus Falls, MN · 2,942 students · Public

47% graduate $45,591 earnings
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#34

Riverland Community College

Austin, MN · 2,003 students · Public

53% graduate $45,247 earnings
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#35

Century College

White Bear Lake, MN · 6,280 students · Public

27% graduate $46,424 earnings
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#36

Northwest Technical College

Bemidji, MN · 751 students · Public

50% graduate $42,930 earnings
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#37

Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Minneapolis, MN · 705 students · Private nonprofit

48% accepted 59% graduate $40,873 earnings
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#38

St Cloud Technical and Community College

Saint Cloud, MN · 3,113 students · Public

44% graduate $46,874 earnings
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#39

South Central College

North Mankato, MN · 1,946 students · Public

34% graduate $45,068 earnings
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#40

Anoka-Ramsey Community College

Coon Rapids, MN · 4,201 students · Public

27% graduate $48,342 earnings
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#41

Ridgewater College

Willmar, MN · 2,162 students · Public

48% graduate $43,827 earnings
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#42

Rochester Community and Technical College

Rochester, MN · 3,365 students · Public

27% graduate $45,287 earnings
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#43

Northland Community and Technical College

Thief River Falls, MN · 1,554 students · Public

52% graduate $44,425 earnings
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#44

Inver Hills Community College

Inver Grove Heights, MN · 2,193 students · Public

22% graduate $49,898 earnings
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#45

Central Lakes College-Brainerd

Brainerd, MN · 1,614 students · Public

51% graduate $42,162 earnings
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#46

Minneapolis Community and Technical College

Minneapolis, MN · 5,268 students · Public

18% graduate $40,086 earnings
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Sources & Citations

[1]

U.S. Department of Education. College Scorecard Data. Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics. →

[2]

National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). →

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David Krug

Co-Founder, CollegeRanker

David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.

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