Virginia TechAlumni & Post-Grads Facts & Statistics

Facts & Statistics

Alumni Office

Virginia Tech Alumni Association
Alumni Hall
www.vt.edu/alumniandfriends www.vatechalumni.com

Alumni Services

Alumni may take one free online course from Tech each year or multiple classes for a fee. Currently, Tech offers 79 online courses available for alumni. These courses fall under a number of subjects, including architecture, engineering, and computing.
Career Assistance: Virginia Tech Alumni can get resumé help, self-assessment tests, and career information from Career Services. Career Services is open Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and they can be reached at (540) 231-6241.

Alumni Publications

The Alumni Association News comes out twice a year in the spring and the fall. Articles include homecoming and reunion information, a list of alumni board members, alumni updates, and more.
The Alumni Association Update is a smaller publication released four times a year. This publication has brief paragraphs on alumni, alumni events, and Virginia Tech news. It also lists the football and reunion schedules.
The Virginia Tech Magazine, released quarterly and also available online, has a message from the president of the University and information about things that are happening at Virginia Tech. The magazine also prints updates on the lives of Tech alumni.
VT NetLetter is a monthly newsletter that alumni can read online or have sent to their e-mail. This publication covers Virginia Tech news, features, and alumni events. Alumni can subscribe for free or check it out online.

Major Alumni Events

Homecoming: Departments within the University invite their alumni back to visit and go to the homecoming football game.
Reunions: Past graduating classes return to Tech to meet up with old friends, visit the campus, and sometimes enjoy a football game.

Famous Alumni

Frank Beamer (Class of '69) - Virginia Tech's head football coach
Vernell Coles (Class of '90) - Olympic basketball player
Carroll Dale (Class of '64) - All-American football player
H.C. Groseclose (Class of '23) and W.S. Newman (Class of '19) - created the Future Farmers of Virginia, which became the Future Farmers of America
Kylene Barker Hibbard (Class of '78) - Miss America 1979
Homer Hickam (Class of '64) - author of "Rocket Boys," which was turned into the movie "October Sky"
Sharyn E. McCrumb (Class of '85) - author of more than 15 novels, and three-time recipient of the Agatha Award
Robert C. Richardson (Class of '58) - won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996
Benjamin A. Rubin (Class of '38) - helped eradicate smallpox by inventing the bifurcated vaccination needle
Bruce Smith (Class of '85) - football player for the Washington Redskins
Bruce Vorhauer (Class of '64) - creator of the contraceptive sponge