Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech (VT) enrolls over 36,000 students, of which 30,000 are undergraduates.  VT enrollment includes over 3,800 international students. Around 10,000 students live in on-campus accommodation.

The main campus is situated in Blacksburg, VA which is 4 hours from Washington DC, and 45 minutes from Roanoke VA. The university includes athletic facilities including a coliseum, a stadium, a field house, a gymnasium, and various playing fields. Squires Student Center offers a variety of services and recreational opportunities. Students enjoy hiking and outdoor pursuits as the campus is located close to well-known national parks that are part of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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  Main Campus

  Blacksburg, Virginia, United States Campus Website

  20,000+ on Campus

  <100,000 residents in Blacksburg

  Language(s) spoken on campus: English

  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is a public land-grant university serving the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world community. The discovery and dissemination of new knowledge is central 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, advance social and community development, foster economic competitiveness, and improve quality of life. Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and manages a research portfolio of nearly $400 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge into practice through technological leadership and fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia. Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech has the largest number of degree offerings in Virginia, more than 125 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 is located in the town of Blacksburg in Montgomery County and is 38 miles southwest of Roanoke.