Focusing on communication processes and media effects, students build knowledge and skills for future study and work in public relations, multimedia journalism or communication studies.

Our center provides quality preschool programs, professional education, and new discoveries in child development and early childhood education.

We prepare students for careers in government, business, law, politics, and education. Our courses examine domestic and international political systems and contemporary events.

Our center is dedicated to the study and prevention of violence in global and local contexts. 

We facilitate discoveries about the past, train students in the skills and knowledge needed to become global citizens and well-rounded professionals, and share new knowledge with the community.

We have 66 nationally and internationally known faculty and staff with active careers in their fields who are devoted to education in theater, cinema, and music. 

This center is a collaborative effort by the university and the kitchen industry to teach students how to design a kitchen for different consumers.

Focusing on teaching, research, and engagement, students work to understand how people develop throughout their lives and in their relationships, recognizing the contexts in which they live.

Our center plays a leading role in the teaching, scholarship, and public dissemination of Civil War history. We host popular public outreach events, collaborate on digital initiatives, and host postdoctoral fellows.

Our department is recognized for excellence in research, teaching, and community outreach. Now offering an additional major in criminology, students can specialize in a wide range of sociological specialties and interdisciplinary areas. 

Our center fosters research in various topics, including Family Gerontology, Health and Aging, and Elder Rights that enhances the quality of life for older adults.

We examine the ways that science and technology shape, and are shaped by, our society, politics, and culture.

We foster critical engagement between domains of inquiry in the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts. Our focus is interdisciplinary theoretical research.

Philosophical training prepares you for fields where independent judgment, conceptual dexterity, and intellectual acumen are required.

Offer 12 languages, and serves students from all majors. Language and literature can open doors for business, research, global collaborations, and deeper relationships.

Focus on the ways religion works in human lives around the globe and investigate how factors such as geographical region, multicultural settings, and popular culture shape communities and traditions.

We prepare our students for professional practice in a range of consumer businesses and industries. Our graduates are working in fashion designing, apparel design, property management, consulting, and education.

We study language and literature, the way we express ourselves, frame questions, deepen understanding, and solve problems. Our goal is to give voice to our students and communities.

Virginia Tech's School of Education (SOE) is dedicated to enriching the lives of PK-20 learners, families, and communities through inquiry, leadership and advocacy in a diverse world.