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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Factbook: Financial Overview )〕 | faculty= 1,395〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virginia Tech Spring 2014 Headcount Enrollments On and Off Campus In-state determined by Tuition at University Level )〕 | president= Timothy D. Sands | provost= Thanassis Rikakis | students= 30,598 | undergrad= 25,318〔 | postgrad= 5,280〔 | city= Blacksburg | state = Virginia | country = U.S. | campus = Town | free_label = Operating Budget | free = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Factbook: About the University )〕 | nickname = Hokies | mascot = HokieBird | colors= Chicago maroon and Burnt orange | affiliations = | athletics = NCAA Division I – ACC | website = | logo= 250px | coor= }} Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech, is a public, land-grant, research university with a main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, educational facilities in six regions statewide, and a study-abroad site in Switzerland. The commonwealth's third-largest university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 225 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to some 29,373 students and manages a research portfolio of . The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia.〔 The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors, which serves as the university's governing body, comprises 13members who are appointed by the governor of Virginia; the president of the state's Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services serves ex-officio as the 14thvoting member. Serving as non-voting representatives are the presidents of the university's Faculty Senate and Staff Senate, who serve ex-officio, and an undergraduate student and a graduate student selected through a competitive review process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bov.vt.edu/ )〕 The endowment is managed by the Virginia Tech Foundation, and as of 2015 topped .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Factbook: Financial Overview )〕 ==History== In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute, a small Methodist school in Southwest Virginia's rural Montgomery County. That same year, 40 acres of the Solitude Farm were acquired for $21,250. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virginia Tech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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