2025 Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia

Business Administration & Management is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #10 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 business administration & management students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 482 doctor's degrees in business administration & management to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Business Administration & Management School for Your Doctor's Degree

The business administration doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality business administration program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business administration & management students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of business administration & management students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt business administration & management students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business administration & management related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business administration & management students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Business Administration & Management Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Business Administration & Management in Virginia

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in business administration & management.

Top Virginia Schools for a Doctorate in Business Administration

1

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

223 Annual Graduates

Liberty University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in business administration & management. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Liberty University

2

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

10 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in business administration & management needs to take a look at Old Dominion University. Old Dominion is a very large public university located in the city of Norfolk.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from Old Dominion University

3

University of Management and Technology
Arlington, VA

59 Annual Graduates

University of Management and Technology is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in business administration & management. University of Management and Technology is a small private for-profit university located in the midsize city of Arlington.More information about a doctorate in business administration & management from University of Management and Technology

Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Business Administration & Management Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	148
Georgia	126	30
North Carolina	115	59
Mississippi	113	15
Louisiana	103	23
Tennessee	102	157
Alabama	98	56
South Carolina	91	37
Kentucky	87	93
Arkansas	58	13
West Virginia	49	1

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Business Administration & Management Related Rankings by Major

One of 21 majors within the Business, Management & Marketing area of study, Business Administration & Management has other similar majors worth exploring.

Business Administration Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Business Administration and Management	187
Interior Design Management	177
Organizational Leadership	118

Majors Similar to Business Administration

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Human Resource Management	92
General Business/Commerce	19

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.