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unitid 233921 · Blacksburg, VA · public 4-year · city (small)

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Public university in Blacksburg, Virginia, US

founded
1872
enrollment 2023
40,514
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
vt.edu/
motto
“Ut Prosim”
Campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Ben Schumin · CC BY-SA 3.0

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. It was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872. wikipedia rev 1359914300 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

55%

13th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

30,923

95th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

15%

undergrads on Pell grants

7th pctl among public 4-years

completion

86%

finish within 150% time

97th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$36,951

97th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$24,953

after aid, aided students

98th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$81,698

after entry, Title IV students

97th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$21,500

68th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $11,689 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    15%
  • 30-48k
    11%
  • 48-75k
    not reported
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$89,378
First-generation students
18%
In-state tuition & fees
$15,948

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.8× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Computer and Information Sciences, General.526$135,082$20,500
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.486$109,446$21,700
Finance and Financial Management Services.359$101,795$22,500
Mechanical Engineering.342$97,664$23,000
Biology, General.315$63,097$20,500
Computer and Information Sciences, General.307——
Foods, Nutrition, and Related Services.261$68,867$25,000
Marketing.257$82,451$22,500
Psychology, General.247$58,977$22,151
Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering.246$100,423$26,000
Civil Engineering.242$84,707$25,760
Industrial Engineering.240$103,958$22,870

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 3,429 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,199) · basketball player (532) · university teacher (201) · American football player (102) · politician (81) · engineer (51) · statistician (50) · academic (45)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Robert Coleman Richardson Physics 1996

The portrait wall

Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Also recorded: Seung-Hui Cho, Lewis Binford.

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359914300), CC BY-SA 4.0.