To fulfill this mission, Virginia Tech seeks to instill in each student an understanding of and capacity for scholarship, independent critical judgment, academic rigor, and intellectual integrity. Graduate education is a critical component in the development of new knowledge, analysis of current research, creation of new ideas, and innovation, and dissemination of scholarship within and beyond the university. At Virginia Tech, graduate students work closely with faculty to acquire the skills of academic disciplines and to create and synthesize knowledge needed to address the complex issues of society through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and scholarship.
