Nestled in the New River Valley, Virginia Tech and its surrounding communities offer a wealth of opportunity in both academic and extracurricular activities.
The Virginia Tech Department of Physics was established in 1872 and has since guided many hundreds of graduate students to successful careers. The department consists of about 40 core faculty who lead in a broad array of research areas including Condensed Matter, High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astronomical Sciences, and Biophysics. Specific areas of concentration include Soft Condensed Matter, Neutrinos, String Theory, and Quantum Information. Graduate students in our department also have the opportunity for research collaboration with nearby national laboratories, including Oak Ridge and Jefferson National Laboratories. Our graduate students have gone on to establish distinguished careers at academic institutions, companies, and as independent entrepreneurs in the United States and abroad.
The university views the graduate program as a core tenet of its research mission. As such, all of our physics graduate students are fully supported on research and teaching assistantship packages. We are also dedicated to making the application process straightforward and affordable:
The Blacksburg,Virginia campus is located in the Blue-Ridge mountains near the New River and is among the top locations for outdoor activities in the country. The university occupies a spacious and vibrant international campus housing over 30,000 undergraduate students and over 6,000 graduate students from all over the world. The town offers a lively culture with music, arts, and various cuisines. Nearby cities include Roanoke, Virginia and Charlotte, North Carolina.
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