17 Master's degrees offered by the university

Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech faculty and students delve into all major areas of electrical and computer engineering.  

The Macromolecular Science and Engineering program of Virginia Tech is an interdepartmental, intercollegiate graduate degree focused on polymer science and engineering. 

The Urban and Regional Planning program of Virginia Tech has a dual objective of training graduates for their first planning job, and more importantly instilling conceptual and critical thinking necessary for lifelong learning and career development. 

The Engineering Mechanics program of Virginia Tech provides a strong foundation and sturdy framework for the discovery, development, transfer, and implementation of new knowledge in the areas of mechanics of materials and material systems, fluid mechanics, dynamics and vibration, biomechanics, and computational and experimental methods. 

The Building Construction Science and Management program of Virginia Tech offers the opportunity for advanced study and research in specialized areas related to building design, construction, and operations over a broad range of scales providing the basis for diverse career paths and/or entry into a Ph.D. level program. 

The Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering (MME) - Virginia Tech offers advanced graduate degrees (MEng, MS ) in Mining Engineering that are designed to educate students for high-level challenges in industry, academia, and government. 

The Mechanical Engineering program of Virginia Tech provides quality mechanical engineering education through innovative research, faculty expertise, and practices that further expand and enhance students’ abilities in communication and problem solving, service and leadership within their profession, industry, and higher education. 

The Biomedical Engineering program of Virginia Tech is a unique multidisciplinary program that bridges the biomedical sciences, biomedical engineering, and real-world applications to enhance the quality of life. 

The Industrial and Systems Engineering program of Virginia Tech is a broad-based program allowing students to pursue graduate study commensurate with their career goals. 

The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, which is ranked in the top 10 accredited civil and environmental engineering departments by the US News and World Report offers the Civil Engineering program of Virginia Tech. The department currently has over 70 faculty, 500 undergraduates and almost 400 graduate students. 

The Sustainable Biomaterials program at Virginia Tech offers three graduate degrees:  Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Forestry (M.F.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). The M.S. is a thesis-based degree, and the M.F. is a professional course-work-based non-thesis degree.

The Materials Science and Engineering program of Virginia Tech emphasizes teaching and research in metals, ceramics, polymers, electronic materials, biomaterials, and composites. 

The Ocean Engineering program of Virginia Tech allows students to immerse themselves in the technology, honing their research, design, and analysis skills. 

The Chemical Engineering program of Virginia Tech is heavily oriented toward synthesis as well as the usual emphasis upon analysis. There is a strong thread of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biochemistry, and microbiology in much of the research in the department. 

In response to the growing demand from nuclear industry in Virginia, the Nuclear Engineering program program of Virginia Tech was restarted within the Mechanical Engineering Department, and began again to offer undergraduate and graduate nuclear engineering courses. 

The Aerospace Engineering program of Virginia Tech allows students to immerse themselves in the technology, honing their research, design, and analysis skills. 

The goals of the Environmental Engineering program of Virginia Tech are to educate and prepare engineers for careers in the various fields of environmental engineering design, water supply management, site remediation, environmental modeling, pollution control engineering, water resources engineering, and public health protection.