Virginia Tech or Virginia Commonwealth University

IbleedVCU
Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:18:10 +0000

I love how a person named GoTechGo states that Virginia Tech is clearly better and it’s not even close…
I will counter that with my name:)

Look, Virginia Tech and VCU are almost completely different schools. Virginia Tech has football and in my opinion this is the main reason that anyone knows anything about Virginia Tech. Sure Virginia Tech has a good engineering program and in fact helped build VCU’s engineering program. But let me tell you this, VCU is on the upswing and moving up the ladder fast in every area of academics. Our Art program is #1 among all public schools. Our Medical school is getting a new 180 million dollar building for the school of medicine downtown. Our Engineering has grown tremendously over just 10+ years and has a goal of being a top 20 program in the next fifteen years and our business school has a huge new state of the art building with a beautiful view of the Richmond skyline.

I found VCU because of it’s art program. When I arrived at VCU, I started as a commuter but over the course of my four years I fell in love with both the University and the city. Most people who attend VCU were never interested in attending Virginia Tech. They are completely two different student bodies. VCU has more students from lower income families and has more students working to pay their way through college. Sure Virginia Tech has a higher GPA for incoming students which I believe is 3.9 while VCU’s is 3.4, but that doesn’t mean they have better academics. They may have a .5 better GPA student but VCU students are taught University principals while experiencing the real world something students at an enclosed University cannot say.

I agree with the previous poster about 10 years ago, where VCU would never have been mentioned as a high quality University pick. Today though and throughout the upcoming years, VCU will continue to rise in rank and prestige. What is so exciting about VCU is that we are just at the beginning of our full potential. Our basketball team is top notch…(I would love to play Virginia Tech but they won’t schedule us) and in the upcoming years we will be getting Football because of the success of ODU. As an alumni, I sense the desire for football building.

Alumni do come back to VCU… we’ve only been around since 1968 and really have only been a “University” in the traditional sense for around 10 years. Every year VCU get’s better. Come visit and learn in the excitement of VCU.