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Virginia Tech University

Location
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Nickname
Hokies
Established
1872
Virginia Tech University

Virginia Tech is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six regions statewide and a study-abroad site in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. Through its Corps of Cadets ROTC program, Virginia Tech is a senior military college. Virginia Tech offers 280 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to some 34,400 students and manages a research portfolio of $522 million, placing it 48th among universities in the U.S. for research expenditures and second in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Virginia Tech is the state's second-largest public university by enrollment. The deadliest mass shooting on an American college campus occurred on campus in 2007, during which a student fatally shot 32 other students and faculty members and wounded 23 other people.

Former names Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (1872–1896), Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896–1944), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944–1970)
Motto Ut Prosim (Latin)
Motto (English) That I May Serve
Type Public land-grant research university and senior military college
Established June 20, 1872
Academic affiliations ORAU, URA, Sea-grant, Space-grant
Endowment $1.34 billion (2020)
Budget $1.5 billion
President Timothy D. Sands
Provost Cyril Clarke
Academic staff 1,395
Students 36,383
Undergraduates 29,300
Postgraduates 7,083
Campus College town, 2,600 acres
Colors Chicago Maroon and Burnt Orange
Mascot HokieBird
Sporting affiliations NCAA Division I – ACC

Over Virginia Tech University

Based in Blacksburg, Virginia, the university is one of six senior military colleges in the United States. It is a land, space and sea grant university.

Prestaties van Virginia Tech University

The school suffered a horrible tragedy on April 16, 2007 when a student shot and killed 32 people on the campus before taking his own life. 

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