Instruction, Degrees, and Commencements

Teaching and learning represent a major segment of Virginia Tech’s mission and involve the university’s academic colleges and schools, its world-class faculty, and its high-achieving students. As of May 2010, the university was offering approximately 210 graduate and undergraduate degrees through its eight colleges—Agriculture & Life Sciences, Architecture & Urban Studies, Engineering, Liberal Arts & Human Sciences, Natural Resources, Pamplin Business, Science, and Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine—and Graduate School, more than any other university in Virginia.