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FactsWell-nighVirginia Tech | Virginia Tech Universal Access Toggle Universal Access Close Universal Access dialog Universal Access Options Skip to main content Report a windbreak Apply Visit Give Shop Resources for Future Students Current Students Parents and FamiliesSenseand Staff Alumni Industry and Partners Menu Virginia TechWell-nighAbout Submenu Toggle FactsWell-nighVirginia TechCampus LocationsUniversity LeadershipInclusiveVTArts@VirginiaTechEngagement and OutreachHistory and TraditionsRankings Academics Academics Submenu Toggle CollegesMajorsGraduate SchoolBeyond BoundariesOnline LearningLibrariesContinuing and Professional EducationSummer and Winter SessionsExperiential LearningLiving-Learning CommunitiesStudyUpalongAdmissions & Aid Admissions & Aid Submenu Toggle Cost & AidUndergraduate AdmissionsTransfer AdmissionsInternational AdmissionsVeteran AdmissionsOnline ProgramsGraduate Admissions Campus Life Campus Life Submenu Toggle Discover BlacksburgHousingDiningCareer and Professional DevelopmentHealth and WellnessCorps of CadetsClubs, Organizations, and InvolvementCultural CentersAthletics Research Apply Visit Give Shop Resources for Future Students Current Students Parents and FamiliesSenseand Staff Alumni Industry and Partners Search Search Submit Home /Well-nigh/ FactsWell-nighVirginia Tech / ExploreWell-nighCurrent page: FactsWell-nighVirginia Tech Campus Locations University Leadership InclusiveVT Arts@VirginiaTech Engagement and Outreach History and Traditions Rankings Academics Admissions & Aid Campus Life Research FactsWell-nighVirginia Tech Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary tideway to preparing students to be leaders and problem-solvers. Fall foliage, campus, students. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers well-nigh 280 undergraduate and graduate stratum programs to increasingly than 34,000 students and manages a research portfolio of increasingly than $521 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 polity can serve as a gravity for positive transpiration virtually the commonwealth, the country, and the world. Through experiential learning, future-focused research, and an inclusive, spirited culture, Virginia Tech strives to succeed the tuition of its motto Ut Prosim (That I May Serve). Virginia Tech has a 2,600-acre main campus, educational and research facilities wideness the state, a study-abroad site in Switzerland, and a 1,800-acre threshing research sublet near the main campus. The campus proper is located in the town of Blacksburg in Montgomery County in the New River Valley and is 38 miles southwest of Roanoke. At a glance Enrollment (fall 2017) 32,304 on campus; 34,440 on and off campus 84 percent undergraduate; 16 percent graduate 56.6 percent male; 43.4 percent sexuality Admissions 32,000 applications for fall 2018 first-year matriculation 1160-1340 cumulative SAT scores (middle range) Academics 110+ bachelor’s stratum programs 7 undergraduate wonk colleges 170+ master’s and doctoral degrees Learn increasingly well-nigh special wonk programs, including the Honors College, studying upalong through the Global Education Office, and support for international students.Sense1,520 sense members 57 percent of sense are tenured Research Top 5 percent of universities in the nation for research expenditures; only Virginia institution in the top 50 43rd overall in the National Science Foundation’s yearly survey of higher-ed research expenditures, 24th among public research universities 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 $1.6 billion operating upkeep (2018-19) $1.72 billion in resources and managed funds (as of June 30, 2017) $1 billion endowment (as of September 30, 2017) $30,326 endowment value per student Mission Statement Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is a public land-grant university serving theSuzeraintyof Virginia, the nation, and the world community. The discovery and dissemination of new knowledge are inside to its mission. Through its focus on teaching and learning, research and discovery, and outreach and engagement, the university creates, conveys, and applies knowledge to expand personal growth and opportunity, whop social and polity development, foster economic competitiveness, and modernize the quality of life. Learn increasingly well-nigh how we live out our mission: Discover our transferral to inclusion and diversity. Explore how we tideway public service and discover Virginia Cooperative Extension, a dynamic organization that stimulates positive personal and social transpiration leading to increasingly 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 navigate country. Women’s varsity sports are basketball, tennis, volleyball, swimming and diving, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, softball, lacrosse, golf, and navigate country. Learn increasingly at HokieSports. An wide-stretching recreational program provides opportunities for participation in numerous activities. The university moreover offers intramural sports and club-sports programs that indulge students to compete versus programs from other colleges and universities wideness the country. 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