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VCU stats and facts

Campus overview
  • Located on two downtown campuses in Richmond, VCU enrolls more than 32,000 students in 211 certificate and degree programs in the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-nine of the programs are unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU’s 13 schools and one college.
  • As one of the nation’s top research universities, VCU attracts more than $255 million a year in sponsored research funding.
  • Twenty-seven VCU graduate and professional programs are ranked among the best in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” These include the No. 1 ranked sculpture and nurse anesthesia programs.
  • VCU Life Sciences is developing as a university-wide discipline that builds upon the university’s traditional scientific strengths in the biological sciences, basic biomedical sciences, patient care, biomedical engineering and biotechnology. VCU Life Sciences is comprehensive in its involvement of all levels of students in the study of life sciences, from freshmen to students in the professional programs to Ph.D. candidates, and integrates diverse disciplines from all over the university, including the academic medical center as well as arts and humanities.
  • VCU Medical Center is one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers and stands alone as the only academic medical center in Central Virginia. The medical center includes the 780-bed MCV Hospitals and outpatient clinics, MCV Physicians — a 600-physician-faculty group practice, and the health sciences schools of VCU. The VCU Medical Center offers state-of-the art care in more than 200 specialty areas, many of national and international note, including organ transplantation, head and spinal cord trauma, burn healing and cancer treatment. The VCU Medical Center is the site for the region’s only Level 1 Trauma Center. As a leader in health care research, the VCU Medical Center offers patients the opportunity to choose to participate in programs that advance evolving treatment, such as those sponsored by the National Cancer Institute through VCU’s Massey Cancer Center, Virginia’s first NCI-designated cancer center.
  • VCU’s nationally recognized theatre, music and dance programs offer more than 365 concerts, performances and recitals a year. The Anderson Gallery showcases regional art as well as work by international artists.
  • VCU is an urban leader, forging ties with business, industry and government in such innovative projects as the collocation of the schools of Business and Engineering, the da Vinci Center for Innovation in Product Design and Development and the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park.
  • The university is the largest-single employer in the Richmond area, with about 12,000 full-time and 6,000 part-time employees, including 1,900 full-time instructional faculty — many of them nationally and internationally recognized in their fields. John B. Fenn, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Chemistry and affiliate professor of chemical engineering, was one of three international scientists to be awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
  • VCU’s 16 varsity sports compete at the NCAA Division I level as members of the Colonial Athletic Association. In recent years, VCU has participated in NCAA Tournaments in men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, golf, men’s soccer and men’s and women’s tennis.