Virginia Commonwealth University

Location: Richmond, Va.

Founded: 1968

Chief executive: President Eugene P. Trani, Ph.D.

Number of faculty: 1,656 (instructional, full-time) 

Tuition per year: $5,138 (tuition and fees, undergraduate, in-state)

Student profile:

Average age: not available
Enrollment (approximate): 27,000
59 percent female, 38 percent male
18 percent African-American
90 percent in-state students

Other tidbits:

• Virginia Commonwealth University is ranked nationally by the Carnegie Foundation as a top research institution.
• The university has more than 170 certificate, undergraduate, graduate, professional and doctoral programs in the arts, sciences and humanities in 15 schools and one college. Forty of the university’s programs are unique in Virginia.
• The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers and stands alone as the only academic medical center in Central Virginia.
• VCU’s health sciences schools of medicine, allied health, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing support the VCU Medical Center’s academic mission.

Web site: http://www.vcu.edu/