Rankings & Statistics
If you’re looking for the best place to study natural resources and conservation, you’ve found it
But we’re so much more. Review our rankings and statistics to help complete your picture of what life is like in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment.
Top academic and research programs
#11
NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION PROGRAM
COLLEGE factual, 2021
#1
FORESTRY PROGRAM
COLLEGE factual, 2020
#4
BEST COLLEGE WITH A PACKAGING SCIENCE DEGREE
UNIVERSITIES.COM, 2020
#2
IN RESEARCH EXPENDITURES PER FACULTY MEMBER AT VIRGINIA TECH
$16+ million
IN EXTERNAL
RESEARCH FUNDING
6
RESEARCH CENTERS
The College of Natural Resources and Environment is comprised of four academic departments: Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Geography, and Sustainable Biomaterials.
Our students stay on track to graduate
90.3%
FIRST-YEAR
RETENTION RATE
42.1%
STUDENTS ON
DEAN'S LIST
$360,000+
AWARDED IN
CNRE SCHOLARSHIPS
You’ll get to know your faculty
75
TENURE-TRACK
FACULTY
11:1
STUDENT-TO-FACULTY
RATIO
22
AVERAGE UPPER-LEVEL
CLASS SIZE
Meet the fall 2020 freshman class
- 196 students
- 3.86 average HS GPA
- 616 average SAT Reading score
- 593 average SAT Math score
- 85% Virginia residents
- 15% students from other states or countries
- 55% male
- 45% female
Overall rankings for Virginia Tech
#7
MOST LOVED COLLEGE
PRINCETON REVIEW, 2020
#12
TOP PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
NICHE, 2021
#30
NATIONAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 2020