2022 Most Popular Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition in Virginia

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in rhetoric and composition, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #132 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the most popular for rhetoric and composition students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 430 bachelor's degrees in rhetoric and composition to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Rhetoric & Composition School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The rhetoric and composition bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. One of the reasons we created our Most Popular Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition in Virginia ranking is to help you make that choice.

Being popular does not always equate to overall quality, but a school with a large number of rhetoric and composition students usually has them for a reason. This may be due to it being a great value, it offering a stellar educational experience, or the subject is a major focus of the school.

One Size Does Not Fit All

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for rhetoric and composition.

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Most Popular Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Rhetoric & Composition in Virginia

The following list ranks the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and composition.

Most Well Attended Schools for Rhetoric and Composition Students Working on Their Bachelor's

1

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

218 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#3 Best Quality In VA

Old Dominion University is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and composition. Old Dominion is a fairly large public university located in the city of Norfolk. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #3 in quality for bachelor's degrees in rhetoric and composition in Virginia.

There were approximately 218 rhetoric and composition students who graduated with this degree at Old Dominion in the most recent data year.

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2

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

191 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In VA

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Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and composition needs to look into George Mason University. Located in the large suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a very large student population. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for bachelor's degrees in rhetoric and composition in Virginia.

There were approximately 191 rhetoric and composition individuals who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent year we have data available.

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University of Richmond
University of Richmond, VA

21 Annual Bachelor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In VA

University of Richmond is one of the most popular schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in rhetoric and composition. Located in the medium-sized city of University of Richmond, URichmond is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #2 in quality for bachelor's degrees in rhetoric and composition in Virginia.

There were roughly 21 rhetoric and composition individuals who graduated with this degree at URichmond in the most recent data year.

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Best Rhetoric & Composition Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Most Popular Rhetoric & Composition Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	473	32
Georgia	447	35
Tennessee	445	10
North Carolina	434	1
South Carolina	353	63
Kentucky	318	18
Alabama	318	16
Mississippi	261	17
West Virginia	235	9

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Rhetoric & Composition Related Rankings by Major

One of 4 majors within the Writing Studies area of study, Rhetoric & Composition has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Creative Writing	49
Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing	39
General Writing	5

Notes and References

• 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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