Vermont Technical College

Coordinates: 43°56′19″N 72°36′17″W / 43.93861°N 72.60472°W / 43.93861; -72.60472

Vermont Technical College
Type Public technical college
Established 1866
Chancellor Jeb Spaulding
President Dan Smith
Administrative staff
 100
Students 1,453
Location Randolph Center, Vermont, USA
Campus Rural: 554 acres (2.24 km2)
Athletics Yankee Small College Conference - Green Knights
Website http://www.vtc.edu/
The administration building at Vermont Technical College's Randolph Center campus

Vermont Technical College is a public technical college in Vermont with two main campuses located in Randolph Center and Williston. The college also has nursing campuses in other locations throughout the state.

The school is a part of the Vermont State Colleges, a consortium of Vermont's five public colleges, governed by a common board of trustees, chancellor and Council of Presidents, each college with its own president and deans. Total enrollment is approximately 1,650, the average class size is 14, and the student-to-faculty ratio is 10:1.[1]

Academic Programs

The college offers Bachelor and Associate degrees across 13 departments:

Student clubs

There are roughly 25 clubs and student organizations,[2] including:

Athletics

The college is a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) in the Yankee Small College Conference. From 2006 to 2011, Vermont Tech was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and played within the Sunrise Conference.[3][4] The Knights currently sponsor men's and women's basketball, cross country, soccer and golf.

Student radio station

WVTC, Vermont Tech's 300-watt fully licensed radio station, broadcasts online at http://www.wvtc.net and locally at 90.7FM.

CubeSat Lab

The Vermont Tech CubeSat Lab launched its first satellite, the Vermont Lunar CubeSat, a 1U CubeSat on November 19, 2013, and was fully functional until reentry on November 21, 2015. It is still the only successful university satellite from a college or university in New England or the east coast of the U.S. We are now working on the flight software for Lunar IceCube which has a ride to the moon on NASA's Space Launch System.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.vtc.edu/about
  2. ↑ http://www.vtc.edu/clubs-and-organizations
  3. ↑ Mahoney, Larry (June 17, 2011). "UMFK, UMPI, UMM leave NAIA for new association". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 11, 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
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