Aggregate species (Wiktionary) or Species aggregate, a named species representing a range of very closely related organisms. Aggregate fruit, in botanical terminology, fruit that develops from the merging of ovaries originating from a single flower.
As Virginia's third-largest university, Virginia Tech offers 225 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to some 30,600 students and manages a research portfolio of $513 million, the largest of any university in Virginia.
As of 2011, there are 176 colleges and universities in Virginia. In the U.S. News & World Report ranking of public colleges, the University of Virginia is second, The College of William & Mary is sixth, and Virginia Tech is 25th.