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Virginia Tech University



Virginia Tech 201 Burruss Hall Blacksburg, VA 24061
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia. Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve). Virginia Tech offers the largest number of degree offerings in Virginia -- more than 100 campus buildings, a 2,600-acre main campus, off-campus educational facilities in six regions, a study-abroad site in Switzerland, and a 1,700-acre agriculture research farm near the main campus. The campus proper of this Virginia college is located in Montgomery County, 38 miles southwest of Roanoke, in the New River Valley.

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Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia. There are nine colleges and a Graduate School at this Virginia college. This research university offers 65 bachelor's degree programs, as well as 145 master's and doctoral degree programs. There are 30,000+ students enrolled at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech is comprised of 83 percent undergraduate students and 16 percent graduate students. The campus population is 57 percent male and 43 percent female. Total enrollment on- and off-campus is 30,870. Virginia Tech has a student-faculty ratio of 16:1. The main campus at this Virginia College includes more than 100 buildings, 2,600 acres, and an airport. This research university is ranked 55th in university research in the United States.

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