2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurial Studies in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Entrepreneurial Studies is the 120th most popular major in the country with 11,319 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, entrepreneurial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,578 and had an average of $25,632 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 29 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in entrepreneurial studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in entrepreneurial studies.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurial Studies in Virginia

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Bluefield College
Bluefield, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bluefield College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia list. Bluefield College is a small school located in Bluefield, Virginia that handed out 0 bachelors’s entrepreneurship degrees in 2020-2021.

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Shenandoah University
Winchester, Virginia

#9 overall quality in Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Entrepreneurship Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Shenandoah University landed the #1 spot on the list. Shenandoah is a small school located in Winchester, Virginia that handed out 0 bachelors’s entrepreneurship degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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