Qualla: Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine

Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine: Introduction

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit User:Tomf688, CC BY-SA 2.5. Two states, two land-grant universities, one veterinary college. The arrangement is rare in American higher education and unique in veterinary medicine. The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine treats students from both states as in-state for tuition and admissions. The main campus is on Virginia Tech's grounds in Blacksburg; a branch occupies space at the University of Maryland in College Park; and a third facility - the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center - sits 250 miles away in Leesburg, Virginia, treating Thoroughbreds and quarter horses for clients from across the Mid-Atlantic.

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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine: A College Built by Compact

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the early 1970s, Maryland and Virginia both faced the same problem: thousands of dollars were leaving each state every year to send veterinary students to the University of Georgia, Tuskegee University, Ohio State, Penn, and Cornell. Maryland had been doing this since 1950, sw...

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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine: The Curriculum and the Hospitals

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, CC BY-SA 3.0. The college admits roughly 120 DVM students per class today - 50 Virginians, 30 Marylanders, and up to six West Virginians under a separate agreement, with the remainder at large. Students complete three years of classroom and laboratory work followed by twelve months of clinical...

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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine: Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three hours northeast of Blacksburg, in Leesburg, the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center is the college's full-service horse hospital. Opened in 1984, the center is named for Marion duPont Scott, the breeder whose Montpelier estate produced champion steeplechasers. It runs...

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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine: CENTAUR, CREATE, and the Other Research Centers

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, CC BY-SA 3.0. The college runs a thicket of specialty research programs across both states. The Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases - CMMID - uses both standard laboratory animal models and non-traditional ones (chickens, pigs, fish, crabs, horses) to study zoonotic disease a...

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Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine: Hokie Stone, Then and Now

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Jim Stroup, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 16,000-square-foot Infectious Disease Research Facility opened in November 2011, with a $14.1 million Veterinary Medicine Instruction Addition completing in fall 2012. Both buildings - clad, like the rest of the Blacksburg campus, in Hokie Stone - connect directly to the orig...

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