2025 Best General Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia

General Chemistry is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #11 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for general chemistry students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 57 doctor's degrees in general chemistry during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great General Chemistry School for Your Doctor's Degree

The chemistry doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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 general chemistry students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other general chemistry students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general chemistry related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general chemistry students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Chemistry Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Chemistry 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 General Chemistry in Virginia

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for general chemistry students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Virginia Schools for a Doctorate in Chemistry

1

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

University of Virginia - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in general chemistry. University of Virginia is a very large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville.More information about a doctorate in general chemistry from University of Virginia - Main Campus

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in general chemistry needs to check out Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Richmond.More information about a doctorate in general chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University

3

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

18 Annual Graduates

Virginia Tech is a wonderful decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in general chemistry. Virginia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Blacksburg.More information about a doctorate in general chemistry from Virginia Tech

Best General Chemistry Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best General Chemistry Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	105
North Carolina	190	84
Georgia	190	97
Mississippi	154	20
Tennessee	150	31
Louisiana	146	37
Alabama	139	30
South Carolina	135	32
Kentucky	119	19
Arkansas	74	7
West Virginia	61	15

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Rankings in Majors Related to Chemistry

One of 11 majors within the Chemistry area of study, General Chemistry has other similar majors worth exploring.

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.