Business Administration

The Pamplin College of Business has introduced a new Professional MBA program starting in the fall of 2006. Classes will be held on Friday and Saturday only and will alternate between the VT Richmond and Roanoke Centers. Students will be enrolled in cohorts and are expected to complete the program in two years. The comprehensive courses are scheduled over 8 terms of 3 months each. At the end of each term, an exam week is scheduled and those exams can be taken at the VT Richmond Center. For more detailed information, go to the MBA website listed below and click on the Professional MBA link.

Contact information:
email: mba_info@vt.edu 
voice: (540) 231-6152
web: www.mba.vt.edu

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

An Ed.D program is designed to prepare educational administrators for leadership roles in school systems and related agencies. Coursework includes leadership and policy studies, advanced school law, historical foundations of educational administration, advanced school finance, community and interagency collaboration, planning educational facilities, and organization and delivery of instructional services.

For more information, please contact us:

Travis Twiford, ttwiford@vt.edu
telephone: (757) 363-3930
fax: (757) 363-3872
web site : www.elps.vt.edu

Instructional Technology

The Instructional Technology (IT) Master's Degree program offered through the Department of Teaching and Learning at Virginia Tech is specifically designed to meet the needs of practicing professional educators as they confront the increasingly important role technology is playing within local, state, and national educational systems. The Instructional Technology Master's program (ITMA) is a rigorous graduate program designed to prepare you to be a professional instructional technologist. Because this is a distance program, all courses are offered electronically via the World Wide Web. Depending on the nature of the course, supporting materials may consist of Web-based tutorials, textbooks, CDs, or other appropriate materials.

Contact information:
email: itma@vt.edu
voice: (540) 231-5587
web: www.itma.vt.edu

 
Career & Technical Education

A Master of Science in Career and Technical Education is offered via distance learning with two-way audio and video and web-based courses. It is designed to develop instructional leaders in the field of career and technical education. The program focuses on developing expertise in contextual learning, integration of CTE with core academics, philosophies regarding the role of CTE in public education, research application in the classroom, diversity, and instructional technology. Emphasis areas include agriculture, business, family and consumer sciences, health occupations, marketing, technology, trade and industrial, and training and development.

Licensure Courses

The Career and Technical Education Program in the Department of Teaching and Learning offers a series of multimedia licensure courses for practicing teachers on provisional licenses. Self-paced courses are available each semester.

Contact information:
email: voice: (540) 231-5598
web: ctems.iddl.vt.edu

Engineering

The Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program is a distance learning graduate program sponsored by five universities in the State of Virginia: Virginia Tech (VT), University of Virginia (UVA), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Old Dominion University (ODU) and George Mason University (GMU). The CGEP offers individuals an opportunity to earn a master's degree part time through traditional face-to-face instruction as well as two-way video graduate classes. Virginia Tech's offers graduate degree programs in Civil and Environmental, Electrical and Computer, and Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Contact information:
email: cgepvt@vt.edu
voice: (540) 231-9754
web: www.eng.vt.edu/cgep

Information Technology

Virginia Tech offers an entirely web-based masters/certificate in information technology. Certificates can be earned in one of six different areas: communications, networking, computer engineering, software development, business information systems and decision support systems.

Contact information:
email: mit@vt.edu
voice: (703) 538-8384
web: www.vtmit.vt.edu

Public Administration and Policy

Virginia Tech offers a Masters of Public Administration degree for future and current practitioners in public administration. Its purpose it to train early career professionals for administrative posts and improve the skills of mid-career operating managers.

Contact information:
email: cpap@vt.edu
voice: (540) 231-5133
web: www.cpap.vt.edu