Lexington, Virginia — When it comes to the current ranking of public national liberal arts colleges,
Virginia Military Institute, the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, falls behind the U.S.
Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy. The first class of its
cadets arrived in 1839. On August 18, 2018, five hundred nineteen new cadets officially register
their names to the Institution’s Matriculation Book.

VMI requires all cadets complete four years of ROTC training in one of the three ROTC programs:
Army, Navy/Marine, or Air Force. The VMI system is designed to prepare qualified cadets for a
military commission upon graduation, but there is no requirement that cadets seek a
commission.

VMI’s multi-faceted program is designed to instill in each cadet the lifelong values of appreciation,
integrity, devotion to duty, fairness, self-discipline and self-reliance. Its mission is to nourish men
and women educated for civilian life but prepared to serve the country in the Armed Forces. Not
all graduates choose military paths as their career.

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列星頓 佛吉尼亞州— 在目前全國公立博識高等教育排行榜中，佛吉尼亞軍事學院的名次，落後於西點
陸軍軍官校、海軍軍官學校、空軍軍官學校。然而，佛吉尼亞軍事學院是美國歷史最悠久的地方政府出
資興辦的軍事學院，首批學生於1839年入學；今年8月18 日，有519名新生報到。

佛吉尼亞軍事學院要求所有學生，在校必須完成四年「預備軍官培養訓練教育」，他們可以在三個軍種
之間選擇—陸軍、海軍或者海軍陸戰隊、空軍。這種課程是為學生在畢業後正式從軍做準備，可是畢業
學生個人從軍與否，學院沒有硬性規定。

佛吉尼亞軍事學院的多方面課程，逐漸形成學生終生的感恩、尊嚴、盡責、公平、自律和自強的價值
觀。學院的辦學宗旨，是在培養學生通過接受教育，安過平民生活，並且做好準備從軍報效國家。其
實，並不是所有畢業畢業學生生都選擇從軍。

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