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SELECT RANKINGS
undergraduate
from U.S. News & World Report’s
“America’s Best Colleges 2012” (fall 2011)
graduate
from U.S. News & World Report’s
“America’s Best Graduate Schools 2013” (spring 2012)
Virginia Tech ranked 28th among national public universities.
Among all national universities, including such private institutions as
Harvard and Yale, Virginia Tech ranked 71st.
The Virginia Tech College of Engineering undergraduate program
ranked 15th in the nation (tied with Johns Hopkins) among all
accredited engineering schools that offer doctorates. The program
ranked seventh among engineering schools at public universities.
The Pamplin College of Business undergraduate program ranked
46th among the nation’s undergraduate business programs and 26th
among public institutions. Pamplin’s overall ranking places it in the
top 10 percent of the more than 600 U.S. undergraduate programs
accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of
Business International.
The undergraduate programs in architecture and landscape
architecture, both in the School of Architecture + Design, ranked
No. 4 and No. 3, respectively, in the America’s Best Architecture &
Design Schools study conducted by the journal DesignIntelligence.
The school’s programs in interior design and industrial design also
ranked in the study’s top 10 in their respective fields.
The Princeton Review ranked Tech among the nation’s top 50
public universities in its “Best Value Colleges” for 2011. Princeton
Review selected 50 public institutions and 50 private ones for its
rankings.
Virginia Tech ranked among the top 100 public colleges and
universities that offer a first-class educational experience at a bargain
price, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
A Wall Street Journal survey of 479 employers ranked Virginia
Tech 13th in the nation for preparing graduates to succeed on the job.
The apparel program in the Department of Apparel, Housing, and
Resource Management was ranked 15th in the world by Fashion-
Schools.org, based on the quality of programs, job and internship
placements, industry reputation, teaching facilities, and tuition costs.
Dining Services was ranked No. 2 in the nation for Best Campus
Food in 2011 by the Princeton Review and No. 3 in the nation in
2010 by the Parents and Colleges publication.
The College of Engineering’s overall graduate program
ranked 24th among all schools of engineering.
Four departments within the College of Engineering finished
in the top 10 of their respective category. The Charles E. Via
Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ranked
eighth among civil engineering programs, with the environmental
engineering program tying for seventh. The Grado Department
of Industrial and Systems Engineering ranked third among
industrial/manufacturing programs. The biological systems
engineering department, also part of the College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences, tied for seventh in the nation among biological/
agricultural programs. In addition, mechanical engineering ranked
18th and the aerospace program ranked 13th.
The career and technical education graduate program in the
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences’ School of Education
tied for fifth among vocational and technical specialties for the
third year in a row.
The public affairs program in the School of Public and
International Affairs, College of Architecture and Urban
Studies, ranked 37th in the nation.
Three programs within the College of Science were rated among
the best in the nation. In the geosciences department, the
paleontology program ranked ninth, geochemistry ranked
13th, and the earth sciences program ranked 28th.
The Pamplin College of Business ranked 37th among the
nation’s best part-time M.B.A. schools.
Veterinary Medicine ranked 17th in the nation.
DesignIntelligence ranked the graduate landscape architecture
program fourth in North America, the graduate interior design
program 10th, and the graduate architecture program 12th.
Virginia Tech, with an average starting salary of $51,600 for
graduates, ranked fifth in the nation in that metric among NCAA
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools, behind Stanford, Duke,
Georgia Tech, and Notre Dame, according to the website Payscale.
com. The ACC ranked first among all FBS conferences. Virginia
Tech also ranked in the top 20 nationally for mid-career salaries of
graduates of FBS schools.
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