If you’re looking for the best place to study natural resources and conservation, you’ve found it
But we’re also 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
#1
NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION PROGRAM
USA TODAY COLLEGE, 2017
#1
FORESTRY PROGRAM
COLLEGE factual, 2018
#7
PACKAGING SYSTEMS AND DESIGN PROGRAM
VALUE COLLEGES, 2018
#2
IN RESEARCH EXPENDITURES PER FACULTY MEMBER AT VIRGINIA TECH
$16+ million
IN EXTERNAL
RESEARCH FUNDING
6
RESEARCH CENTERS
The college is comprised of four academic departments: Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Geography, and Sustainable Biomaterials.
Our students stay on track and finish on time
3.96
AVG. YEARS TO DEGREE FOR UNDERGRADUATES
90.7%
FIRST-YEAR
RETENTION RATE
$301,219
AWARDED IN
CNRE SCHOLARSHIPS
You’ll get to know your faculty
71
TENURE-TRACK
FACULTY
12:1
STUDENT-TO-FACULTY
RATIO
22
AVERAGE UPPER-LEVEL
CLASS SIZE
Meet the fall 2017 freshman class
- 155 students
- 3.93 average HS GPA
- 621 average SAT Reading score
- 601 average SAT Math score
- 69% in the top quarter of their high school class (among those reporting rank)
- 81% Virginia residents
- 19% students from other states or countries
- 61% male
- 39% female
Overall rankings for Virginia Tech
#3
MOST LOVED COLLEGE
PRINCETON REVIEW, 2018
#3
BEST COLLEGE YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET INTO
MONEY, 2017
#25
NATIONAL PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, 2017