Old Dominion University is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. It began in 1930 as the two-year Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, became an independent college in 1962 and attained university status in 1969. Its name comes from The Old Dominion, one of Virginia's state nicknames. In 2023 it enrolled 23,494 students on a main campus of 250 acres, and it offers 175 undergraduate and graduate degree programs from seven colleges and three schools. It holds the Carnegie Classification R1 for very high research activity, and on 1 July 2024 it merged with Eastern Virginia Medical School to form Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University.
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is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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The Center for Accelerator Science in the Physics Department at Old Dominion University is an interdisciplinary research center
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