Virginia Tech ranked among the world's best in 21 subjects

The annual Destinations Career Fair gives hospitality and tourism management students at Virginia Tech an opportunity to meet with industry recruiters.

Virginia Tech has the world’s sixth-best hospitality and leisure management program, according to a global ranking of more than 4,400 colleges and universities.

The university was ranked among the world’s elite institutions in 21 of the 46 subjects and in all five broad fields evaluated in the latest QS World University Ratings by Subject. Virginia Tech’s minerals and mining engineering program was ranked No. 39. Overall, the university was ranked among the top 100 in eight subjects.

"These rankings only confirm what we have been hearing for years from prospective students in countries around the globe — that Virginia Tech is a university with a world-class reputation,” said Don Back, director of the Language and Culture Institute, which recruits international students to the university. “The fact that we ranked so highly in all five subject areas proves what a thoroughly comprehensive university Virginia Tech is.”

Read more at VT News.