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Public health at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech graduates about 82 public health majors a year, 1% of its graduating class. That puts it 23rd of 328 schools we score for public health, a standout program at 86 out of 100. Research spending in the field runs about $78 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

86/100Standout#23 of 328 for public health →
Graduates a year821% of the class
Research in the field$78Ma year, NSF
Admit rate55%whole school
SAT middle 50%1240–1430whole school

Around Virginia Tech

Burruss Hall, at the head of the Drillfield on the campus of Virginia Tech in Bl
Burruss Hall -01- (12349518863)Photo: Ben Schumin from Montgomery Village, Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Williams Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Stephen Davis speaking with attendees at the Virginia Tech tour stop of "This Is
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Pamplin Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Nearby in the public health ranking

  1. Indiana University–Bloomington 87
  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 87
  3. Brown University 87
  4. Texas A&M University 86
  5. University of Arizona 86
  6. Purdue University–Main Campus 85
  7. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill 85
  8. University of Massachusetts–Amherst 85

Other strong majors at Virginia Tech

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Virginia Tech with every school we score in public health. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (25%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (20%) and the size of the program (15%, capped so size alone can't win). 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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