Virginia Tech's College of Engineering will hold its annual open house for high school and transfer students on Monday, April 7.

The open house is designed to show high school juniors and transfer students the various majors offered within the College of Engineering. Individual faculty and departments are scheduled to make presentations throughout the day, and there will be general and specific information sessions, campus tours, departmental displays, and information booths.

Registration for the College of Engineering Open House will be available Saturday, March 1 online.

Information packet pick-ups will be available April 7 at the university’s Squires Student Center starting at 7:45 a.m. followed by a welcome at 8:30 a.m. Presentation schedules will be available at registration.

Displays will be housed in the Old Dominion Ballroom in Squires Student Center from 11:15 a.m. until 2:15 p.m.

“America's Best Colleges 2008” survey released by U.S. News & World Report in August 2007 ranked the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's undergraduate program 14th in the nation among all accredited engineering schools that offer doctorates, and eighth among those at public universities. The individual college rankings are based on assessments by deans and senior faculty at peer institutions. Six of the college’s undergraduate engineering programs were ranked among the top 20 among their peer programs.

The latest national survey released by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) — with fall semester 2006 data — ranked the Virginia Tech College of Engineering fourth in the number of full-time teaching faculty, third for the number of tenured/tenure track women faculty, tenth for the number of African American faculty, sixth for the number of Asian faculty, and fifth for the number of Hispanic faculty. The data was based on a survey of 323 engineering schools.

For more information on the college’s open house, contact Sara Matrangola at 540-231-2226.

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