If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in business, management & marketing, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #9 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of business, management & marketing. Combined, these schools handed out 593 doctor's degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Business, Management & Marketing School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of business, management & marketing for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality business, management & marketing program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor'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 business, management & marketing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of business, management & marketing students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
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 business, management & marketing students go into to obtain their doctor'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 business, management & marketing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business, management & marketing students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Business, Management & Marketing Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business, Management & Marketing Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in Virginia
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in business, management & marketing.
Top Virginia Schools for a Doctorate in Business, Management & Marketing
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).