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Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech, founded in 1872 as a land-grant military college, maintains the Corps of Cadets as an optional undergraduate program alongside its much larger civilian student body, a military tradition dating to the university's founding that continues to produce a significant share of the US Army's commissioned officers each year. The university's College of Engineering is one of the largest and most respected in the country, and Virginia Tech's aerospace, mechanical, and computer engineering programs have built particularly strong reputations, drawing on the university's decades-long research partnerships with the federal government and defense contractors. The campus and community endured a devastating 2007 mass shooting, one of the deadliest in American history at the time, and Virginia Tech has since become a nationally cited case study in campus safety policy and mental health response, with the university actively engaged in ongoing research and advocacy stemming from that tragedy. Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus, built largely from distinctive local "Hokie Stone" limestone quarried near campus, gives the university an architecturally uniform, recognizable look, and its combination of engineering strength, a proud military tradition, and one of the most passionate fan bases in college football has made it one of Virginia's most recognizable public universities.
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University of Richmond
The University of Richmond, founded in 1830, maintains one of the largest endowments per student of any university in the country, a financial position that lets the school fund need-blind admission and full-need financial aid at a scale unusual for a university of its relatively modest national name recognition. The Robins School of Business and the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the first freestanding undergraduate school of leadership studies in the country when it was founded in 1992, have each built distinctive academic reputations that set Richmond apart from other mid-sized private universities in the region. The university's wooded, lake-centered suburban campus, combined with a deliberately small undergraduate enrollment of around 4,000 students split across several distinct schools, gives Richmond a liberal-arts-college feel while still offering the professional-school breadth more typical of a larger university. Richmond's combination of substantial financial resources, a genuinely distinctive leadership studies program, and a small, cohesive undergraduate community has made it a consistent draw for students seeking a smaller, well-funded alternative to the state's larger public flagship universities.
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