Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

About Virginia Tech

Through research, teaching, and service, Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem solvers.

A comprehensive institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. Virginia Tech offers the widest range of degree choices in Virginia to more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on all its campuses.

With a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia Tech has an education and research presence across Virginia and the greater Washington, D.C., metro area, including numerous Virginia Cooperative Extension offices and research centers.

Key among them:

• Adjacent to multiple university sites in the Washington, D.C., area, the university is developing a 1 million-square-foot Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, Virginia, that will become a global center of talent production and technology excellence.
• In Roanoke, Virginia, the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center are cornerstones of the emerging Health Sciences and Technology campus.
• The university’s international presence is anchored by the Steger Center for International Scholarship in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland.

Virginia Tech is a leading global research institution that conducts more than $650 million in research annually.

The university boasts world-class research institutes:

• Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC
• Fralin Life Science Institute
• Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
• Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science
• Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment
• Virginia Tech National Security Institute
• Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

Through a network of international research and public service partnerships, Virginia Tech’s scholars address complex global challenges that cross traditional academic boundaries. Taking students to the next level by helping them solve real-world problems, Virginia Tech professors have a reputation for imagining the next great thing — from self-driving cars to energy-conscious homes — and then making it happen.

Virginia Tech’s motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), is deeply ingrained in the university’s approaches to learning, discovery, and engagement. Ut Prosim is a value system that guides students’ decisions and helps mold them into responsible citizens of the world.