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ABOUT OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY

Old Dominion University (ODU) is Virginia’s forward-focused, public doctoral research university. ODU’s high-performing students, nationally recognized faculty and determined entrepreneurial approach to problem solving drive cutting-edge research, eminent scholarship, and strategic partnerships to create innovative solutions that improve individuals’ lives, communities, and the world.

Located in historic Norfolk, Va., the 188 acre Old Dominion University campus stretches from the Elizabeth River to the Lafayette River and offers a small-college look and feel in the midst of an exciting, growing metropolitan environment, with a quality of life that is among the best anywhere.

ODU enjoys one of the most diverse student bodies found anywhere. Some 1,400 international students attend Old Dominion University and about 33 percent of every freshman class is non-Caucasian. Almost 6,000 students live within walking distance of the campus, while another 4,000 are distance learners who attend classes at nearly 50 locations throughout Virginia and as far away as Georgia, Arizona, Washington State, and even U.S. Navy ships and submarines deployed around the globe. And, almost thirty percent of the student body is in some way connected to the military.

Designated, by the Carnegie Foundation, as a research extensive university with high research activity, ODU has grown its research expenditures almost  over 250 percent over the last five years. ODU has invested in creating a collaborative research environment, which attracts outstanding, high performing faculty and produces accomplished, innovation-minded students, including the first college student in the Commonwealth of Virginia to be awarded a patent.

Old Dominion University, through the work of its sixteen research and enterprise centers, is dedicated to furthering the creation of intellectual capital from basic and applied research and using its ideas and technologies to address issues of global concern, improve the quality of life, and create economic prosperity for all.

RANKING

• Among “The Best of the Mid-Atlantic Colleges” in the Princeton Review
• Aerospace Engineering ranked 18th in nation by National Science Foundation in R&D expenditures
• Top 25: Oceanography, Nuclear Physics, Modeling and Simulation, Aerospace Engineering, Bioelectrics
  

• Business and research initiatives contribute more than $1 billion annually to local economy
• Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center is focal point for almost $500 million in M&S related economic development in Hampton Roads
• Faculty members include 2003 and 2004 Virginia Scientists of the year and 2004, 2005, and 2007 Virginia Professor of the Year
• Career Advantage Program guarantees every undergraduate an internship in their major field.
• Nationally recognized distance education network registers more than 20,000 enrollments annually
• Engineering & Computational Sciences Building is first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified higher education building in Virginia
• Host to the National University Telecommunications Network
• Alumni include: a NASA space shuttle pilot, a Rhodes Scholar, the chief of surgery at Walter Reed, the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command and U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, and an ESPN broadcaster, and a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board

RESEARCH STRENGTHS:

• Modeling & Simulation, Bioelectrics, Particle Physics, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, System of Systems Engineering, Economic Forecasting, Advanced Ship Repair and Maintenance, Nanobiotechnology, Medical Devices
• In fiscal year 2009, ODU research expenditures grew to over $96 million
• To learn more about the research being conducted in ODU’s research centers, institutes, and clusters, please visit www.odu.edu/oduhome/research.shtml

FULLTIME ENROLLMENT: (2009-2010) 24,013

IN-STATE TUITION: Undergraduate: $249 per credit hour, Graduate: $358 per credit hour
OUT OF STATE TUITION: Undergraduate: $697 per credit hour, Graduate: $903 per credit hour

AFFILIATED SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, GRADUATE SCHOOLS:
Batten College of Engineering & Technology
College of Arts & Letters
College of Business & Public Administration
Darden College of Education
College of Health Sciences
College of Sciences

SATELLITE CAMPUSES:
Northern Virginia Higher Education Center
Peninsula Higher Education Center
Tri-Cities Higher Education Center
Virginia Beach Higher Education Center and
More than 40 distance education sites at all of Virginia’s community colleges and in several locations throughout the nation.

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