Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Grad School

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a land grant polytechnic university in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1872 as an agricultural and mechanical college, Virginia Tech continues to be one of the few public universities in the United States which maintains a corps of cadets. The Virginia Tech campus is located in the New River Valley in the Valley and Ridge physiographic region of the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, a few miles from the Jefferson National Forest in Montgomery County. In 1872, the Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute, a small Methodist school in rural Montgomery County with federal funds provided by the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. The Commonwealth incorporated a new institution on that site, a state-supported land grant military institute called the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Under the 1891–1907 presidency of John M.... more at freebase

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Graduate Degrees Offered

• Computer Science