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Best MBA Programs in Virginia
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This ranking scores 16 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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MBA programs in Virginia ranked by graduate outcomes and value
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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
William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA
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George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
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William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA · 7,055 students · Public
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA · 30,923 students · Public
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA · 27,752 students · Public
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA · 20,888 students · Public
University of Virginia-Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA · 17,597 students · Public
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA · 17,514 students · Public
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, VA · 4,365 students · Public
Longwood University
Farmville, VA · 3,015 students · Public
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA · 20,753 students · Public
Radford University
Radford, VA · 6,038 students · Public
Eastern Mennonite University
Harrisonburg, VA · 754 students · Private nonprofit
Hampton University
Hampton, VA · 3,727 students · Private nonprofit
Averett University
Danville, VA · 1,231 students · Private nonprofit
Marymount University
Arlington, VA · 1,810 students · Private nonprofit
Shenandoah University
Winchester, VA · 2,116 students · Private nonprofit
University of Lynchburg
Lynchburg, VA · 1,577 students · Private nonprofit
Sources & Citations
Chetty, R., Friedman, J., Saez, E., Turner, N., & Yagan, D. (2017). Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 23618. →
U.S. Department of Education. College Scorecard Data. Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics. →
National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). →
U.S. News & World Report. Best Business Schools MBA Rankings. Used for MBA program validation. →
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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