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I NTEREST I NG 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.
• Virginia Tech was ranked among the world’s elite institutions in 21
subjects and in the 2017 QS World University Ratings by Subject.
• In March 2016, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Virginia Tech’s
graduate engineering program among the nation’s best (27).
• 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 27th overall among public universities and 74th among all national
universities. Money and Forbes both ranked the university among the top
25 public institutions in the nation.
• The part-time MBA program in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
climbed several placres for the second year in a row No. 7 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 (36).
• The National Science Foundation ranked Virginia Tech 44th in research
expenditures and the No. 1 research university in Virginia.
• In 2017, Princeton Review ranked Tech at No. 1 for Their Students Love
These Colleges and Best Quality of Life; No. 4 Best Campus Food; and
No. 7 Town-Gown Relations are Great, Happiest Students, and Lots of
Race/Class Interaction.
• The Active Times named Virginia Tech the fittest college in America in
2013 and 2015.
• Virginia Tech’s undergraduate architecture school was ranked No. 5 and
its graduate architecture program No. 18 by DesignIntelligence.
• USA Today has ranked
Virginia Tech as the best
place in the nation to
study natural resources
and conservation for
three
consecutive
years. The College of
Natural Resources and
Environment’s forestry
program also ranked first.
Joseph G. Tront,
PhD., professor of
electrical and computer
engineering in the
College of Engineering
at Virginia Tech, is the
university’s faculty
chairman of athletics.
AT A GLANCE
• Located in Blacksburg, Virginia
• Nine colleges and graduate school
• 100 bachelor’s degree programs
• 150 master’s and doctoral degree
programs
• 33,000 full-time students
• 16:1 student-faculty ratio
• Main campus includes more than 135
buildings, 2,600 acres, and an airport
• Ranked 44th in university research in
the United States
• Has adjacent corporate research
center, as well centers in Roanoke,
Northern Virginia, and Newport News