The University of Mary Washington has been named in Poets&Quants Best Undergraduate Business Schools of 2025, released this morning, March 17.
The prestigious annual list evaluates undergraduate business schools based on three categories – admission standards, academic experience and career outcomes – each weighted at 33.3 percent and counting equally toward schools’ final scores.
While UMW comes in 84th overall, the University claims 34th in the “academic experience” category, landing in the survey’s top third, along with Georgetown and UVA. Other Virginia schools listed in this year’s Poets&Quants rankings include the College of William and Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business and the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business.
“This recognition highlights our faculty’s expertise, our focus on innovation and the success of our graduates,” said UMW College of Business Dean Filiz Tabak. “It showcases UMW as a top destination for students seeking a rigorous, hands-on business education with small class sizes, personalized attention and strong career outcomes.”
The Poets & Quants ranking factors in alumni feedback from the Class of 2022. “We think two years after graduation is an ideal time to ask alumni to evaluate their programs because they’ve had ample time to gauge their degrees’ usefulness, but it’s not so long ago that they’ve forgotten the details of their experience,” the methodology states.
Mary Washington alumni would recommend their alma mater, with a 9.5 out of 10 ranking, and also said that it was worth it, with a score of 9.4. Alumni also gave both teaching quality and faculty mentorship a 9.4.
UMW ranked 95th for career outcomes in the Poets&Quants listing and 88th for admission standards.
The College of Business builds on Mary Washington’s tradition of a well-rounded undergraduate program in the liberal arts, with small classes that encourage direct interaction with expert faculty to nurture the solid intellectual grounding necessary for tomorrow’s business leaders and entrepreneurs. The College of Business undergraduate and graduate programs are accredited by AACSB International, the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools and the benchmark of quality for business education worldwide, accrediting only 6% of the world’s schools offering business degrees.
Founded by business journalist John Byrne, Poets&Quants is a media outlet and community for business schools and MBA programs offering in-depth analysis, news and advice for prospective and current MBA students. Since it began ranking business schools in 2016, the service says, it has continued to seek feedback from deans and directors and to adjust its approach.
“Ranking undergraduate business schools is an inherently imperfect exercise. No single methodology captures the full picture,” this morning’s press release states. “However, at Poets&Quants for Undergrads, we strive to rank schools based on real data that matters most to students and parents.”
In December, UMW Professor of Marketing Kashef Majid made Poets&Quants’ 2024 list of best undergraduate business professors, featuring accomplished, innovative and compassionate professors who “represent the best of what an undergraduate business degree can offer.” In the publication, UMW senior Grace Corriveau is quoted as saying of Majid: “He genuinely cares about his students’ learning and success, going above and beyond to make the material fun and relatable. He is truly the best undergraduate business school professor!
Read more about the most recent Poets&Quants rankings and see this year’s complete list of schools on the Poets&Quants for Undergrads 2025 Ranking webpage.
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