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Best Engineering Colleges in Virginia
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This ranking scores 11 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Engineering programs in Virginia ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
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Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA
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Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA · 30,923 students · Public
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA · 1,527 students · Public
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA · 1,881 students · Private nonprofit
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA · 27,752 students · Public
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA · 17,597 students · Public
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA · 443 students · Private nonprofit
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA · 17,514 students · Public
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA · 20,753 students · Public
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, VA · 33,048 students · Public
Hampton University
Hampton, VA · 3,727 students · Private nonprofit
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland, VA · 1,639 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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