Universities and Colleges in Virginia Beach

Located at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, Virginia Beach is best known for tourism, which dominates the local economy. But in fact, Virginia Beach was named among the Top 20 Midsize Metros for College Students by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

The AIER ranked college towns for criteria including the concentration of students in the population, research expenditures per capita, cost of living, concentration of cultural and entertainment venues, accessibility without a car, entrepreneurial activity, and year-over-year ratio of college-educated population living in the area. As it turns out, Virginia Beach has a rich variety of educational options for the college student.

Colleges and Universities in Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach is home to two universities. Regent University, a private Christian university founded by the evangelist Pat Robertson, has mostly focused on graduate education but recently branched out to offer undergraduate degrees. Atlantic University, founded by Edgar Cayce, father of the New Age spiritual movement in the '60s, offers master's degrees in Transpersonal Studies.

For a more traditional education, there's Virginia Wesleyan …

Directory of Virginia Beach Colleges & Universities

Featured Schools & Colleges Accepting Students from Virginia Beach