2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in Virginia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Business/Commerce is the 16th most popular major in the country with 56,042 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,399 and had an average of $26,389 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 1,459 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,680 and $31,789 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,633 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in Virginia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general business/commerce. That schools that top this list have a program in general business/commerce in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia doctor’s degree general business students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in Virginia

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#2 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in Virginia list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 8 doctorate’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read full report on General Business/Commerce at Virginia Tech

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

#8 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Business Major in Virginia list. Virginia Commonwealth University is a large school located in Richmond, Virginia that handed out 1 doctorate’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Virginia Commonwealth University General Business/Commerce Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce

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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