The city of Radford is 45 miles southwest of Roanoke, Virginia, on Interstate Highway 81. It is located in the New River Valley between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains. Radford has a population of 15,900, but the populations of nearby Christiansburg and Blacksburg combine with Radford's to total a substantially larger number. National forests, Claytor Lake, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Appalachian Trail provide a wide range of outdoor recreational opportunities. Requirements for the M.A. and M.S. degrees range from 30 to 48 semester hours.
Most departments offer both thesis and nonthesis options.
The program in communication disorders maintains a Hearing Science Laboratory and a Speech Science Laboratory for research. Graduate students in art have access to a foundry, a woodworking shop, and studios for sculpture ceramics, crafts, drawing, painting, printmaking, graphic arts, fibers, jewelry, design, and art education. Facilities for music include a recording and score collection, a computer-equipped theory laboratory, the Center for Music Technology, and an electronic music laboratory. For more information, students should contact the Graduate College, Box 6928. There are a few summer work fellowships, and student loan programs are also available.