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Smart College Visit launches Visit Virginia Tech mobile guide to campus

BLACKSBURG, Va., April 27, 2011 – Planning to visit Virginia Tech? There’s an app for that.

Prospective students, their families, friends, returning alumni, and anyone visiting Virginia Tech's 2600-acre Blacksburg campus can now have an electronic map, driving directions, a walking tour, admissions information, restaurant and hotel information, historical sights, and more available literally at their fingertips via the "Visit Virginia Tech" mobile app.

“The campus visit is very important in higher education marketing,” acknowledged Melissa Richards, director of marketing and publications at Virginia Tech. “Virginia Tech works very hard to make every visitor’s experience the best it can be. We seek innovative and interactive ways to forge personal connections with our audiences. A mobile app is a smart way to engage visitors before, during, and even after they come to campus.”

Published by Smart College Visit Inc., this navigational and travel planning guide to campus features the university’s admission requirements, campus tour and information session schedules, on-campus and off-campus dining directories, and area accommodations as well as turn-by-turn directions to nearly every building on campus, parking lots, athletic facilities, and residence halls.

A self-guided walking tour and Virginia Tech wallpaper backgrounds are just two of the app's features designed to connect the visitor with the university.

“Visit Virginia Tech” is published by Smart College Visit Inc., a Blacksburg, Va. based higher-ed marketing and college visit planning portal, in partnership with Virginia Tech and is available free on iTunes -- search for “visit virginia tech.” 

Virginia Tech's new Visitor and Undergraduate Admissions Center, located off Prices Fork Road next to the Inn at Virginia Tech, will be open in July 2011. The new center will feature interactive exhibits focusing on Virginia Tech's research, academics, student life, outreach, and history. Admissions tours, as well as other university tours, will initiate at the new center. Fall Open House dates are Oct. 15-16 and Nov. 12-13, 2011. 

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 30,000 students and manages a research portfolio of nearly $400 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia.