Welcome to Virginia Commonwealth University

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Compass

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Welcome to Virginia Commonwealth University! We're excited to meet you and show you around our dynamic campus! VCU has two campuses in the heart of downtown Richmond, the capital of Virginia. We're standing at the Compass, the center of our Monroe Park Campus. The MCV Campus, a little over a mile away from here, is home to VCU Health and our five health sciences schools. At VCU, students are encouraged to conduct research, start businesses and serve the community — all before they graduate. We offer top-ranked academic programs, research opportunities, and an urban setting so you can live and learn in the real world. More than 31,000 students study here, the home of the VCU Rams. They come from all over the U.S. and from more than 100 countries. We hope you'll decide to become one of us!

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Cabell Library offers students, faculty and other visitors flexible work and study space, a full-service Starbucks, a reading porch, a makerspace and loads of natural light. Special Collections at James Branch Cabell Library include book art, comic arts, manuscripts and rare books and periodicals.

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The Workshop in Cabell Library offers a comprehensive suite of resources and spaces designed as an ecosystem for creating and learning. Equipment and spaces are free and open to all members of the VCU community. The Workshop circulates a collection of audiovisual equipment for loan and also offers in-house tools and spaces including a makerspace for hands-on creativity, audio and video production studios, a gaming room, computer stations with a variety of software, and other equipment in support of scholarship, research, presentation and invention.

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Students head to VCU's all-you-care-to-eat dining hall for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Stations serve a range of foods to meet the pickiest of palates. On occasion, the hall features a guest restaurant program offering selections from the menus of popular local restaurants.

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The Machine Shop is accessible to the students in the College of Engineering with the completion of the appropriate safety course. The shop also assists researchers from all VCU departments by creating, modifying and maintaining lab equipment and test apparatus. As the shop has supporting resources, any project can be completed through our service.

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VCU's School of the Arts is widely recognized as one of the nation's top schools of the arts and design. With more than 3,000 students from 20 countries and 38 states, art students are encouraged to build their craft and create their own journey. Students learn skills that are applicable and employable. Counselors and faculty members help artists go beyond the curriculum with programs that connect students with businesses and organizations, internships and career guidance and connections that last long after graduation.

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GRTC Pulse is a modern, high quality, high capacity rapid transit system that serves a 7.6-mile route along Broad Street and Main Street, from Rocketts Landing in the City of Richmond to the Shops at Willow Lawn in Henrico County. The Pulse links VCU students to many exciting destinations, businesses, services and restaurants. Best of all, it's free for VCU students and employees!

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As the only dental school in Virginia, VCU's School of Dentistry has a long history of educating practitioners capable of meeting the oral health care needs of the communities they serve. The school provides opportunities for selected, qualified individuals to study dentistry under the most favorable conditions and in accordance with the standards established by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association. MCV Campus: VCU's college of health professions, schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy, as well as VCU Health, the only comprehensive Level I trauma center in the region, are located on the MCV Campus. Undergraduate, graduate and first-professional students engage in a broad array of research and are able to study and work with faculty from multiple disciplines in public policy, biotechnology and health care discoveries.

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The Welcome Center is conveniently located on the first floor of the West Broad Street Parking Deck and is adjacent to VCU's campus bookstore, Barnes & Noble @ VCU. As part of the Office of Admissions, the Welcome Center is where we welcome prospective students and visitors to campus. We also use this space to host daily information sessions and it is the starting point of guided campus tours, led by the Student Admissions Ambassadors. Parking for visitors, students, faculty and staff coming to campus or the Siegel Center is available in the W. Broad Street Parking Deck.

Welcome to Virginia Commonwealth University

Compass

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Cabell Library Lobby

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Cabell Library Makerspace

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Market 810 Dining Hall

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College of Engineering

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School of the Arts

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Pulse Bus

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College of Health Professions, MCV Campus

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Come see for yourself

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