Who is Pamplin?

The Pamplin College of Business offers majors in accounting and information systems, business information technology, economics, finance, hospitality and tourism management, management and marketing. It enrolls approximately 4,000 undergraduates and 250 full–time master's and doctoral students. The college enrolls part–time graduate students at Virginia Tech′s Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church and at five other sites across the state, where students take classes by interactive distance-learning technology.

Through partnerships with Thunderbird University in Glendale, Ariz., and Institut National des Télécommunications in Evry, France, the college offers students an opportunity to earn a dual master's degree. The college manages the universitywide, interdisciplinary online Master of Information Technology program. The program has won an award for the nation's most innovative online education program.

The college has a distinguished faculty of men and women whose teaching credentials and research publications in leading journals have helped to establish the college′s outstanding academic reputation. Many faculty members have extensive experience in industry or government, and many also serve as officers of regional and national organizations or on the boards of academic and professional journals.

More about the Pamplin College of Business: http://www.pamplin.vt.edu/info/

Virginia Tech (full name: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Established in 1872 as a land–grant university, Virginia Tech is located on a 2,300-acre campus and has an on–campus enrollment of about 26,000—about 80 percent undergraduate students, 20 percent graduate students; 60 percent male, 40 percent female. About 700 students are enrolled in a voluntary corps of cadets, comprising both men and women.

The university offers 60–plus bachelor′s degree programs and about 110 master′s and doctoral programs through eight colleges—Agriculture and Life Sciences, Architecture and Urban Studies, Business, Engineering, Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Natural Resources, Science and Veterinary Medicine.