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Virginia Tech

public university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia
Organization university Q65379
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Summary

Virginia Tech is a university[1]. It ranks in the top 0.27% of university entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,557 views/month, #22 of 8,192).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: higher education[3]
  • Member of: ORCID, Inc.[4], Digital Library Federation[5], Association of Research Libraries[6], Atlantic Coast Conference[7], Consortium of Social Science Associations[8], ArXiv[9], Northeast University Semiconductor Network[10], Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations[11], American Council on Education[12], National Humanities Alliance[13], Open Education Network[14], Coalition for Networked Information[15], Association of Public and Land-grant Universities[16], Center for Research Libraries[17]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Blacksburg[18]
  • Country: United States[19]
  • Instance of: land-grant university[20], public educational institution of the United States[21], United States senior military college[22]
  • Location: campus of Virginia Tech[23], Blacksburg[24]
  • Postal code: 24061-0131[25]
  • Child organization or unit: Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine[26], Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station[27], Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation[28]
  • Commons category: Virginia Tech[29]
  • Located in time zone: Eastern Time Zone[30]
  • Has part(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation[31], Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University College of Science[32]
  • Inception: 1872[33]
  • Official website: https://www.vt.edu/[34]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Virginia Tech[35]
  • Commons gallery: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University[36]
  • Employees: 1300[37]
  • Described by source: New International Encyclopedia[38]
  • Ranking: 363[39], 346[40], 302[41], 337[42], 316[43], 355[44], 338[45], 361[46], 367[47], 327[48], 326[49], 389[50]
  • Motto text: Ut Prosim[51]

Why It Matters

Virginia Tech has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] It is known by 102 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → Eastern Time Zone
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43884|batch #43884]]: redundant value; it should not have a time zone."
  2. 12w ago · 沈澄心 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 37.225, 'lon': -80.425}
    Fast id → 549617
    Nacsis cat author id → —
    Sevis school id → —
    + 194 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Nukat id: n2022131001, Added with [[User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers|moreIdentifiers]]"
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