Via Fellowships are available for outstanding students, and provide a very high level of financial support. The Geotechnical Society includes all graduate students, interested undergraduates, and geotechnical faculty. The Society provides graduate and undergraduate students with a fraternal organization dedicated to advancing the geotechnical engineering profession at Virginia Tech. Intermural sports, technical, and social events are organized by the society Job Opportunities for our graduates are excellent. Our students are in great demand because of the strength of our course offerings, and because employers recognize that we integrate practice, research, and education to create a comprehensive professional experience.
Salaries are high, often come with signing bonuses, and our graduates receive multiple job offers.
Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0105. The M.S. degree requires completion of 30 semester hours of coursework. The graduate catalog provides a discussion of the specific requirements. Geotechnical engineering students normally obtain a Master of Science by the non-thesis option which can be completed through coursework and project and report, or by completing coursework only. The project is a research topic selected in conjunction with one of the faculty with the general goal of contributing to the geotechnical profession through publication of a reportor scholarly paper.