Old Dominion University, also known as ODU, is a public, co-educational research university located in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 19,793, and the campus size is 251 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. The university offers 168 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to over 24,000 students and is one of the nation's largest providers of online distance learning courses.
Old Dominion University's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, Tier 2.