6 Facts About Virginia State University

1. Virginia State University was included on the Fulbright list of US colleges that produced the most Fulbright US students and Fulbright US scholars this year.

2. Virginia State University earned his undergraduate degree from Howard University in civil engineering and a Master of Science in civil engineering from Northwestern University.

3. Virginia State University's was appointed as interim president on January 1, 2015.

4. Virginia State University is situated in Chesterfield County at Ettrick, on a bluff across the Appomattox River from the city of Petersburg.

5. Virginia State University was founded on March 6, 1882, when the legislature passed a bill to charter the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.

6. Virginia State University, known as Virginia State, is a historically black public land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia.