Marketing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #54 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of marketing. Combined, these schools handed out 93 master's degrees in marketing to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt marketing students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized marketing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for marketing students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Marketing Master's Degree Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Marketing in Virginia
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for marketing students seeking a a master's degree.
It's difficult to beat Liberty University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in marketing. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the marketing program make around $57,857 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).