Virginia State University is an historically black university and land-grant university located in Ettrick, Virginia (near Petersburg, in the Richmond area), and was founded on March 6, 1882. It was the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for black Americans. Its first president was John Mercer Langston, who later became the first African-American elected to Congress from Virginia. The board of trustees was almost entirely African-American, except for one member. The faculty of the collegiate program and the normal school was African-American until the mid-1960s. The name used by the school's athletic teams is the "Mighty Trojans." The third season of the reality television series College Hill was filmed at Virginia State University in 2006. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.
Programs
Accounting, Administration, Administrative Management, Agriculture, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Continuing Education, Criminal Justice, Design Arts, Dietetic Sciences, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, Electronics, Electronics Engineering Technology, Engineering, Engineering Technology, English, English Literature, Family, Family and Consumer Sciences, Finance, Health, History, Honors Program, Hospitality Management, Industrial Technology, Information Systems, Interdisciplinary Studies, Justice, Language, Liberal Arts, Life Sciences, Literature, Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Mass Communication, Math, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Technology, Music, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical Education, Physics, Plant Sciences, Political Science, Project Management, Psychology, Public Administration, Recreation, Research, School Counselor, Science, Sciences, Social Work, Sociology, Sport Management, Supervision, Teacher Education, Technical Education, Technology, Visual Arts, Visual Communications
Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Master's Colleges and Universities
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Admissions office:
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
VA 23806Petersburg
Virginia
United States
Phone: (824) 524-5902
Fax: (824) 524-5055
Email: admiss@vsu.edu
http://www.vsu.edu/pages/168.asp
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