Old Dominion University | |
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City: | Norfolk, Virginia |
Type: | Public |
Sports: | baseball, basketball, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, rowing, sailing, soccer, swimming/diving, tennis, wrestling[1] |
Colors: | dark blue, light blue, gray, silver |
Mascot: | Big Blue (the Monarchs) |
Website: | http://www.odu.edu/ |
Old Dominion University is a Virginia public university founded in 1969.[2] It was ranked a third tier school in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Tier 3" list.[3] The University started out as the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary in 1930; and then became an independent institution in 1962.[2]