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VCU College of Engineering

VCU College of Engineering

The VCU College of Engineering is the engineering college Virginia Commonwealth University, a public research university in Richmond, Virginia, United States. If offers undergraduate and graduate degrees. Established as the "School of Engineering" in 1996, its name and status was officially changed to the College of Engineering in April 2018. The college's former dean, Barbara D. Boyan, cited doubled faculty numbers and an increase in funding as reasoning for the switch from school to college.

Upon its founding, initial courses at the VCU school were offered in mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering. The school added a new undergraduate major in biomedical engineering in the fall of 1998. The undergraduate biomedical engineering program is unique in the Commonwealth, established as a response to the growing presence of biomedical companies in Virginia. VCU's long-standing degree programs in computer science joined the school in fall 2001. In May 2000, a graduate degree program in engineering was created and added to the historic graduate programs of biomedical engineering.

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VCU School of Engineering
  • Country: United States
  • City: Richmond
  • http://www.egr.vcu.edu/
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  • Global Ranking Score (Higher is Better): 602