Three Virginia business schools make top 20 Poets&Quants rankings
Four Virginia business schools placed among the top 104 business schools in Poets&Quants’ 2025 rankings of undergraduate business schools, released Monday. Of these Virginia schools, three were in the top 20. Poets&Quants for Undergrads, an online publication and forum dedicated to business schools, ranks schools by three categories: admissions standards, academic experience, and car[...]
Biz schools prep students for private equity careers
Explosive growth in private financing markets in recent years has opened new career opportunities, and several of Virginia‘s business schools are expanding curricula and extracurricular activities to help students land in-demand jobs at private equity and venture capital firms. Assets in the private market are projected to grow at more than double the rate of […]
Directory of business schools in Virginia
(Editor’s note: Listings with logos and longer descriptions are paid listings from display advertisers.) PUBLIC COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES (nonprofit, based in Virginia) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY Joseph W. Luter III School of Business Newport News cnu.edu/schoolofbusiness Business programs: Bachelor’s degrees in accounting, finance, management and marketing. Graduate: Master̵[...]
Directory of business schools in Virginia
Public colleges & universities (nonprofit, based in Virginia) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY Joseph W. Luter III School of Business Newport News | 757-594-7215 cnu.edu/schoolofbusiness GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY School of Business Fairfax | 703-993-1880 business.gmu.edu JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY College of Business Harrisonburg | 540-568-2785 jmu.edu/cob LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY College of Business &am[...]
Three Va. biz schools make top 50 in Poets&Quants rankings
Three Virginia business schools placed in the top 50 of 91 schools in Poets&Quants’ 2024 rankings of undergraduate business schools, released Monday. Poets&Quants for Undergrads, an online publication and forum dedicated to business schools, ranks schools by three categories: admissions standards, academic experience and career outcomes. Each category is evenly weighted, although met[...]
Business smarts
In Assistant Professor Michael Albert’s MBA data science class at the University of Virginia‘s Darden School of Business, students analyze historical usage data for a bike-sharing service to determine a bicycle maintenance schedule. In the past, they would tackle this simulation by writing code in the Python computer programming language — a pain point for […]
On your mark
When Virginia Commonwealth University closed its buildings in spring 2020, then-student Julien Reininger wasn’t deterred from his entrepreneurial pursuits. In the kitchen of his parents’ Springfield home, Reininger ran a dehydrator for eight hours at a time, creating vegan jerky from canned jackfruit and developing different marinades. “I’m sure when I started doing it, they [&[...]
Quick change
Jackie Juergens wanted to move from Altria Group Inc.’s strategy division to its fast-growing advanced analytics division, but she needed to brush up on her tech skills. Although she had an MBA, the mother of three and senior manager opted for William & Mary‘s business school‘s online master’s degree in business analytics, which she completed […]
Directory of business schools in Virginia
Public colleges & universities (nonprofit, based in Virginia) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY Joseph W. Luter III School of Business Newport News | 757-594-7215 cnu.edu/schoolofbusiness GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY School of Business Fairfax | 703-993-1880 business.gmu.edu JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY College of Business Harrisonburg | 540-568-2785 jmu.edu/cob LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY College of Business &am[...]