Virginia Tech is the state’s largest university, with enrollment of approximately 30,000 gradually increasing each year.

Fun Facts

• Nearly 24,000 undergraduate students pump more than $81 million dollars into the local economy annually.
• Graduate students spend an additional $45 million annually.
• University employees, including faculty and students, generate $224 million in disposable income per year.
• Virginia Tech employs almost 3,000 faculty members with an average salary of over $72,000 and nearly 3,500 classified staff with an average salary of over $29,000. The total University payroll is $375 million.
• Consistently ranks among the top 15 schools in the nation in number of patents received.

• The Hokies - Virginia Tech’s champion football team - has been to seventeeen consecutive post-season bowl games, has earned the University national recognition while bringing thousands of fans to home games.

• The University has a strategic goal to become one of the top 30 research universities by expanding sponsored research, graduate student enrollment, researchers and faculty.
• The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center encompasses 120 acres with 27 buildings housing over 140 businesses with over 2,000 employees in today’s hottest fields of biotechnology, information technology, electronics, engineering, materials and chemistry.