Graduate School News

Virginia Tech is home to 6,900 graduate students enrolled in certificate and degree programs across nine colleges. You can learn about our students and their work, our graduate programs, and the events and information we share via University News stories, our blogs, and our social media accounts here.

Graduate students and programs in the news

- - Virginia Tech team brings relief to well owners following hurricanes Harvey and Irma
    An NSF grant will fund the on-the-ground distribution of water sampling kits and educational training in Texas and Florida, which faculty from Texas A&M’s AgriLife Extension Service and University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension program will lead. The Virginia Tech team will analyze the samples and distribute the results to well owners.

- - 3-D printed golf grips change the game
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate and undergraduate students took first place in the 2017 Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Digital Manufacturing Challenge by developing a process to mold, scan, and 3-D print golf grips customized to individual users.

- - Construction graduates are the job market’s hottest thing. Just ask a Hokie.
    Myers-Lawson School of Construction’s Fall Career Fair reflects explosive demand for the nation’s fastest-growing major and the world’s future construction needs.