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The department offers two options for undergraduate geography majors: culture, regions, and international development or geospatial and environmental analysis. In 2012, the department added an undergraduate B.S. degree in meteorology, the only meteorology program offered in Virginia. Graduate students may earn an M.S. in geography.
The Bachelor of Architecture degree at Virginia Tech has been accredited by the NAAB, consecutively, since the 1957-58 academic year making it one of the oldest, accredited architecture programs in the U.S. along with Syracuse University, Cornell University, Pratt Institute, Auburn University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of ...
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.
Virginia Tech's School of Public and International Affairs has received the following rankings: Public Affairs: No. 39 in the nation for Graduate Public Affairs in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report [6] Urban Planning: No. 22 in the nation in Planetizen's Top 25 Schools For Urban Planners [7]
The oldest college or university in Virginia is The College of William and Mary, founded in 1693. In 2010, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine became the newest. The largest institution is Liberty University, with over 143,000 students. [1] The smallest is the graduate-only Institute for the Psychological Sciences.
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.
The magazine also ranked Virginia Tech's M.F.A. program 10th in poetry, which has the program continuing its upward trend. [21] In addition, the 2010 U.S. News & World Report guide to university graduate programs ranked Virginia Tech's School of Education in the top 100 schools of education. The guide also ranked the School of Education's ...
According to the U.S. News & World Report's "America Best Graduate Schools 2020" (released in spring 2019), Virginia Tech's earth sciences graduate programs – part of the Department of Geosciences – ranked 28th in the nation. [11] The program has ranked in or near this spot for the past 20 years.