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Virginia Tech's Burruss Hall VT's 6th president, Paul Brandon Barringer Virginia Polytechnic Institute logo in the 1899 yearbook. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute, a small Methodist school for boys in Southwest Virginia's rural Montgomery County.
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Virginia Tech Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; VMI Virginia Military Institute; VPI Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (An abbreviation of the university official name, though not actively used by the university) VSU Valdosta State University; Virginia State University; VT
The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus.
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010). Read our methodology here . HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
The Virginia Tech College of Engineering is the academic unit that manages engineering research and education at Virginia Tech. The College can trace its origins to 1872, and was formally established in 1903. Today, The College of Engineering is the largest academic unit of Virginia Tech and has 14 departments of study.
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. Coordinates: Owner: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Capacity: 65,632 (total) [1] 1,200 (Club Seating) 240 (Luxury Seating – 15 Suites) Surface 'Latitude 36' Bermudagrass overseeded with Perennial Ryegrass in the fall: Construction
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences provides the kind of education intended under the Morrill Act of 1862, making it the center of the land-grant tradition at Virginia Tech. Closely associated with the college are the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, established in 1886, and Virginia Cooperative Extension, established in 1914 ...