Reasons to Choose Virginia Tech
As a Virginia Tech student, you can choose from more than 180 graduate and undergraduate programs of study. Your professors are nationally and internationally recognized experts in their fields. In many cases, they not only chose the textbook for their courses, they wrote the textbook!
Research
Research at Virginia Tech isn’t just for graduate students and faculty members. Undergraduate research opportunities abound. Exciting, ground-breaking research is happening right now within all of the colleges at Virginia Tech.
Beyond the Classroom
Our stand-alone honors program gives our outstanding students the opportunity to tailor their studies to get the most out of a Virginia Tech education. We have students creating their own futures through interdisciplinary study. Students gain valuable, real-world experience through work-study and co-op programs, internships, and study abroad opportunities.
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers.
Fall foliage, campus, students.
As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and a leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers about 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students across the commonwealth and manages a research portfolio of more than $556 million. The university fulfills its role as a land-grant institution by fostering a collaborative environment that integrates technology into all disciplines, so that the Virginia Tech community can serve as a force for positive change around the commonwealth, the country, and the world.
Through experiential learning, future-focused research, and an inclusive, spirited culture, Virginia Tech strives to accomplish the charge of its motto Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
Virginia Tech has a 2,600-acre main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia; a significant presence across the commonwealth, including the Innovation Campus in Northern Virginia, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, and sites in Newport News and Richmond; educational and research facilities across the state; a study-abroad site in Switzerland; and a 1,800-acre agriculture research farm near the main campus. The campus proper is located in the New River Valley and is 38 miles southwest of Roanoke.
At a glance
Enrollment (fall 2022)
- More than 37,000 on and off campus
- 80 percent undergraduate; 20 percent graduate
- 57 percent male; 43 percent female
Admissions
- 45,238 applications for fall 2022 first-year class
- 14 percent increase in applicants identified as first-generation college students
Academics
- 110+ bachelor’s degree programs
- 8 undergraduate academic colleges
- 170+ master’s and doctoral degree programs
- Graduate School, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Honors College
- Learn more about special academic programs, including the Honors College, studying abroad through the Global Education Office, and support for international students.
Faculty
- 2,331 instructional faculty members (both full and part-time)
- 51 percent of faculty are tenured
- Fall 2021 Student to Faculty ratio: 13 to 1
Research
- Top 5 percent of universities in the nation for research expenditures; one of two Virginia institutions in the top 50
- 48th overall in the National Science Foundation’s annual survey of higher-ed research expenditures
- 34 patents and 46 license and option agreements in fiscal year 2016
- 230 acres, 33 buildings, and 180 companies housed in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
University finances
- $1.89 billion operating budget (2022-23)
- $2.26 billion in assets and managed funds (as of June 30, 2020)
- $1.33 billion endowment (as of June 30, 2020)
- $36,728 endowment value per student
Mission Statement
Inspired by our land-grant identity and guided by our motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech is an inclusive community of knowledge, discovery, and creativity dedicated to improving the quality of life and the human condition within the Commonwealth of Virginia and throughout the world.
Learn more about how we live out our mission:
- Discover our commitment to inclusion and diversity.
- Explore how we approach public service and discover Virginia Cooperative Extension, a dynamic organization that stimulates positive personal and social change leading to more productive lives, families, farms, and forests.
- Get to know university leadership.
Athletics
Virginia Tech is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. NCAA Division I-A men's varsity sports at Tech are football, basketball, baseball, soccer, indoor and outdoor track, swimming and diving, wrestling, tennis, golf, and cross country. Women’s varsity sports are basketball, tennis, volleyball, swimming and diving, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, softball, lacrosse, golf, and cross country. Learn more at HokieSports.
An extensive recreational program provides opportunities for participation in numerous activities. The university also offers intramural sports and club-sports programs that allow students to compete against programs from other colleges and universities across the country.