Other Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #142 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for other education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 349 degrees in other education annually.
Your choice of other education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Other Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Other Education Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the other education degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat Regent University if you wish to pursue a degree in other education. Regent is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Virginia Beach. This university ranks 21st out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were roughly 217 other education students who graduated with this degree at Regent in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, other education degree recipients typically make about $58,113 in the first five years of their career.
Old Dominion University is a great option for students pursuing a degree in other education. Located in the medium-sized city of Norfolk, Old Dominion is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 16th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 41 other education students who graduated with this degree at Old Dominion in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the other education degree program at Old Dominion University get $16,789 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Liberty University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in other education. Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #265 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Liberty University is a great university overall.
There were about 33 other education students who graduated with this degree at Liberty University in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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