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About Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University, or VCU for short, is a large, public American research university with two main campuses located in downtown Richmond, which is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, an independent city with a population estimated at a number of more than 200 000 inhabitants, during the 2007 census. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Area, which has more than 1 000 000 people, living within its limits, fact which makes it the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the US state of Virginia.

VCU was founded in 1968, through a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia, today being classified as one of three Virginia research universities with high research activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and having one of the largest enrollments in Virginia, its students being approximated at 32 000.

The university has 2 main campuses - the Monroe Park Campus and the Medical College of Virginia Campus - through which it offers its students Baccalaureate, Master's and Doctoral degrees, as well as Professional and Certificate courses, overall, offering more than 170 certificate, undergraduate, graduate, professional and doctoral degrees in the arts, sciences and humanities in fifteen different schools of discipline.

Athletics

VCU's athletic teams are known as the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams, who compete in NCAA Division I, in 16 sports, for both men and women, including in men's basketball, in which they've experienced victory several times, over the years, among the team's most notable achievements being the 2004 CAA championship, which they won, receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and men's tennis, in which the Rams have been ranked 14th pre-season by the International Tennis Federation (ITA) in 2005, and have been nationally ranked in the top 50 since 1993.

Notable Alumni

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: Hunter ''Patch'' Adams - Founder of the Gesundheit! Institute and subject of the movie Patch Adams, Baruj Benacerraf - winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Saul Krugman - a medical researcher who discovered a vaccine against hepatitis B, Dick Robertson - President of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and Baxter F. Phillips, Jr. - President of Massey Energy, among others.