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Northern Virginia Community College: Annandale: Public (Virginia Community College System) Junior college: SACS: 1964 51,896 Old Dominion University: Norfolk: Public Research university: SACS: 1930 23,107 Patrick & Henry Community College: Martinsville: Public (Virginia Community College System) Junior college: SACS: 1962 1,861 Paul D. Camp ...
The Global Policy Center, established in 2015, seeks to bring together academic and policy scholarship in order to address the world's most pressing humanitarian and development challenges with the tools of research and education. It works alongside the Humanitarian Collaborative at the University of Virginia to accomplish this goal.
The School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) was approved by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in 1996 as a collaboration of five departments and programs in two colleges to develop interdisciplinary instruction, research and outreach initiatives related to public policy, planning, and administration and globalization and international development.
The college also has connections to research facilities and local community service organizations through which students can earn experience in major related fields and has many study abroad programs. In 2010–11, the college had 4,386 students taking courses on the Blacksburg campus. [2] The college's dean, Rosemary Blieszner, was appointed ...
Defunct private universities and colleges in Virginia (1 C, 16 P) Seminaries and theological colleges in Virginia (12 P) A. The Apprentice School (1 C, 1 P)
The International Residential College (also known as the IRC) was established in 2001, and is the newest residential college at the University of Virginia. It comprises Mary Munford, Roberta Gwathmey, Yen (formerly Lewis), and Hoxton dorms (also sometimes referred to as 'houses'), all of which existed before the IRC was established. [ 1 ]
The College enrolls approx. 12,000 students undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students in over 55 fields. For the class entering 2007, 18,048 students applied and 6,274 were offered admission with 3,260 accepting admittance into the College. 88% of the enrolling students ranked in the top 10th of their graduating classes. [6]
The school was founded in 1886 and incorporated in 1888 by the Virginia Baptist State Convention as the coeducational "Lynchburg Baptist Seminary". Classes were first held in 1890 under the name Virginia Seminary. [4] With the offering of a collegiate program in 1900, the name was again changed, to Virginia Theological Seminary and College.