Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Virginia Tech is the home of the Commonwealth's leading College of Engineering. The college, its faculty and its administration are known in Virginia and throughout the nation for outstanding programs in engineering education, research, and public service.
"America's Best Colleges 2007" survey released by U.S. News & World Report in August 2006 ranks the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's undergraduate program 14th in the nation among all accredited engineering schools that offer doctorates. The College of Engineering shares the 14th ranking with Texas A&M at College Station. Among public universities with engineering schools, the Virginia Tech College of Engineering is ranked eighth. The individual college rankings are based on assessments by deans and senior faculty at peer institutions.
The magazine's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2007" survey, released in April of 2006, ranked the College's graduate program 30th in the nation.
In the most recent (2005) survey of the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, Inc., the Virginia Tech College of Engineering ranks eighth nationally for the number of undergraduate degrees awarded, 14th for the number of master's degrees and 14th for the number of Ph.D.s. The College is among the five largest schools of engineering in the country.
The College of Engineering offers programs leading to the Bachelor's of Science degree, all accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Committee (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), as well as graduate degrees in each of these areas and in the interdisciplinary program of Systems Engineering.
