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I N T E R E S T I N G
FACTS & F I GURES
Virginia Tech is consistently recognized for its value and the quality of its
programs. These rankings represent a few of the broader measures of
excellence that the university garners.
• In March 2016, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Virginia Tech’s
graduate engineering program among the nation’s best (21).
• U.S. News also ranked Tech’s master of information technology degree
program No. 2 in the nation.
• U.S. News rankings of undergraduate programs placed Virginia Tech at 26th
overall among public universities and 70th among all national universities.
Money and Forbes both ranked the university among the top 25 public
institutions in the nation.
• The part-time M.B.A. program in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
climbed 30 places to No. 16 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World
Report.
• In 2016, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine again ranked Virginia Tech
among the best values in public education (27).*
• The National Science Foundation ranked Virginia Tech 39th in research and
the No. 1 research university in Virginia.*
• Virginia Tech was one of the top 10 best values for humanities majors,
according to
PayScale.com.• In 2015, Princeton Review ranked Tech at No. 2 Happiest Students;
No. 3 Best Campus Food; No. 4 Best Quality of Life, Their Students Love
These Colleges, Town-Gown Relations are Great; No. 8 Lots of Race/Class
Interaction; and No. 18 Best-Run Colleges.
• The Active Times named Virginia Tech the fittest college in America.
• Virginia Tech’s undergraduate architecture school was ranked No. 2 and its
graduate architecture program No. 9 by DesignIntelligence.
A T A
GLANCE
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Located in Blacksburg, Virginia
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Nine colleges and graduate school
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90 bachelor’s degree programs
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150 master’s and doctoral degree programs
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32,000 full-time students
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16:1 student-faculty ratio
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Main campus includes more than 135 buildings, 2,600 acres, and an airport
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Computing and communications complex for worldwide information access
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Ranked 39th in university research in the United States
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Has adjacent corporate research center
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