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• The university’s annual budget for 2012-13 is more than $1.2 billion.<br />
• Virginia Tech has approximately 225,000 living alumni from every<br />
state and more than 100 countries.<br />
• All campus facilities, including residence halls, have high-speed<br />
connections to voice, data and video <strong>com</strong>munications.<br />
• Virginia Tech’s fully <strong>com</strong>puterized library contains more than 2.3<br />
million volumes, an array of specialized collections and numerous<br />
electronic databases.<br />
• Virginia Tech is one of three public universities in the country<br />
that offers the <strong>com</strong>bined advantages of a military-style leadership<br />
development program – here it is through the Virginia Tech Corps of<br />
Cadets – and a traditional academic and social life.<br />
• The Princeton Review ranked Virginia Tech in the top 50 nationally<br />
among public universities in its “Best Value Colleges” for 2011.<br />
• U.S. News & World Report ranked the College of Engineering’s undergraduate<br />
program 15th in the nation and its graduate program 24th.<br />
at a glance<br />
• Located in Blacksburg, Virginia<br />
• Comprised of nine colleges and the Graduate School<br />
• Approximately 65 bachelor’s degree programs<br />
• Approximately 150 master’s and doctoral degree programs<br />
• Total enrollment on and off campus is about 31,000<br />
• Main campus includes more than 125 buildings, 2,600 acres and an airport<br />
• Ranks 47th in university research expenditures in the United States<br />
• Adjacent Corporate Research Center<br />
• The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute opened<br />
in fall 2010.<br />
• The Virginia Tech Research Center – Arlington opened in 2011<br />
intereSting factS & figureS<br />
• A Wall Street Journal survey of 479 employers in 2010 ranked<br />
Virginia Tech 13th in the nation for preparing graduates to succeed<br />
on the job.<br />
• DesignIntelligence ranked Virginia Tech’s undergraduate architecture<br />
program third in the nation for 2012.<br />
• Dining Services was ranked second in the nation for Best Campus<br />
Food in 2011 by the Princeton Review and No. 3 in the nation in<br />
2010 by the Parents and Colleges publication.<br />
• The university’s Department of Forest Resources and Environmental<br />
Conservation was ranked second in North America in recent study<br />
conducted by Auburn University.<br />
• Virginia Tech, with an average starting salary of $51,600 for<br />
graduates, ranked fifth in the nation in that metric among NCAA<br />
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools, behind Stanford, Duke,<br />
Georgia Tech and Notre Dame, according to the website Payscale.<strong>com</strong>.<br />
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