Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Top Questions

VT has some of the top academic programs in the country ex. Business, Engineering, and Architecture just to name a few. Tough programs that help students get great jobs.

With the larger classes (500+), it is hard for the professor to know everyone's name. THe best way to ensure that is to meet with the professor outside of class and establish a relationship more than just attending class. Professors are very flexible and will answer any question a student may have. They enjoy working with students and want to see everyone excel. Marketing is a challenging, rewarding, and interesting major. It intrigues and challenges me at the same time. I love the Business school and I know I've found my home among the colleges at Tech.

We have very strong academics. Of course my favorite classes have been boyer class but i think that it would be better if some teachers would takea step back from their class and understand that students have other classes

I am a biology major at tech and the course load is pretty rough for me. There is a lot of home work but you really learn a lot here. There are a lot of opportunities for research and the professors are really knowledgeable in their fields of study.

Classes can be huge your freshman year...and you will learn that you can skip class and get by. But its not worth it...teachers at tech love the students and for the most part arent out to get you...so listening to their lectures are pretty interesting. HOKIES are for life. Tech, if not anything else, has AWESOME networking all over the globe. So getting a job after college is super easy!

Academics here are good. the faculty need to concentrate on students just as much as they do research.

There are some classes with hundreds of students, but teachers are very approachable even if they don't know you personally.

Classes are usually large freshman and sophomore year. Class sizes get smaller as you get to junior and senior year. Finance has very difficult classes Students usually study-math emporioum is a big gathering every night

Academics are very differnet then high school. Most of the major courses are huge lectures of around 300 people. But now that I have entered into specific major classes, the class sizes are getting smaller and I am getting to know more people within my own major.

Classes ange depending on your major. I am math and psychology. My math classes are small and intimate, but psych tends to be a bigger major. I have never hun gout with any of my professors outside of class but I know some other students who have. I think academically Tech is great for career preparation, which is probably the main focus. I think again it depends on major, but some professors are really awesome about making sure you are actually enjoying what youa re learning.