Ranking

Largest business schools in Virginia by degrees awarded

Liberty University ranks first with 1,535 master’s degrees in business in 2024–25, according to IPEDS.

38 business schools in Virginia awarded 5,078 master’s degrees in business to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 14th of the 51 states and DC with a business school. Liberty University awarded the most, 1,535. A business school here is a college that awarded at least one master’s degree in any program of NCES’s CIP family 52, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services: the MBA and every other business master’s alike. The rule is broad by construction.

Master’s degrees in business awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection

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Master’s degrees in business awarded, July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
Rank	Name	Figure	Nationally
1	Liberty University	1,535	17th of 1,232
2	University of Virginia-Main Campus	718	49th of 1,232
3	William & Mary	445	109th of 1,232
4	Longwood University	325	171st of 1,232
5	George Mason University	275	206th of 1,232
6	Virginia Commonwealth University	245	222nd of 1,232
7	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	227	233rd of 1,232
8	Washington University of Science and Technology	137	345th of 1,232
9	James Madison University	114	390th of 1,232
10	Regent University	110	398th of 1,232
10	University of Management and Technology	110	398th of 1,232
12	Strayer University-Virginia	88	460th of 1,232
13	ECPI University	75	504th of 1,232
14	Radford University	68	535th of 1,232
15	University of the Potomac-VA Campus	61	573rd of 1,232
16	University of Mary Washington	59	589th of 1,232
17	Shenandoah University	54	620th of 1,232
18	Old Dominion University	52	631st of 1,232
19	University of Richmond	50	647th of 1,232
20	Hampton University	46	671st of 1,232
21	American National University	42	693rd of 1,232
22	Virginia Union University	32	787th of 1,232
23	Marymount University	27	835th of 1,232
24	University of Lynchburg	24	876th of 1,232
25	Virginia Wesleyan University	22	903rd of 1,232
26	Averett University	20	933rd of 1,232
26	Mary Baldwin University	20	933rd of 1,232
28	Bluefield University	19	945th of 1,232
29	Bridgewater College	15	1,006th of 1,232
29	Christopher Newport University	15	1,006th of 1,232
31	Roanoke College	12	1,051st of 1,232
32	Eastern Mennonite University	10	1,079th of 1,232
33	Virginia State University	9	1,091st of 1,232
34	Emory & Henry University	7	1,122nd of 1,232
35	DeVry University-Virginia	4	1,177th of 1,232
36	Virginia University of Lynchburg	3	1,194th of 1,232
37	South University-Richmond	2	1,205th of 1,232
38	South University-Virginia Beach	1	1,222nd of 1,232

What this data cannot show

How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
1 institution in Virginia in NCES’s file awarded 134 master’s degrees in business and is not ranked here, because it has no college page: it is outside NCES’s First Look universe of colleges that take federal student aid.
The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.

Sources

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.

Compiled automatically from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 30, 2026