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In a new campus tour video, viewers can tag along with student tour guides to VCU’s Cabell Library, the Cary Street Gym, Hunton Student Center and even the James River’s class IV rapids. (Kevin Morley, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Jan. 9, 2024

Video: A quick tour of VCU’s campus

Get to know VCU’s campus in less than five minutes, with two student hosts fueled by coffee and the adrenaline that comes with whitewater rafting down the James River.

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By Elinor Frisa

Virginia Commonwealth University – with two campuses barely a mile apart – is located in downtown Richmond. In a new tour video, marketing major Camden Ridley and dentistry student Sarah Heise take viewers around each campus and show off a few of their favorite spots.

VCU undergraduates typically spend most of their time on the Monroe Park Campus. Its engaging mix of old and new buildings is surrounded by historic residential neighborhoods and busy commercial streets dotted with shops, restaurants and art galleries – all anchored by the outdoor serenity of Monroe Park, which dates to 1851. Close by, the MCV Campus is home to VCU’s renowned health sciences schools and academic medical center. Students and health care workers in scrubs mingle with business professionals in this energetic downtown area, particularly as they wait together in line for food trucks in the shadow VCU’s iconic Egyptian Building – completed in 1846, it is one of the nation’s best examples of Egyptian Revival architecture.

Not many campus tours involve travel by water, but VCU is an uncommon campus, so this one does. Dive right in.

Come see what makes VCU so uncommon. First, we explore the academic Monroe Park Campus then we take a free 5 minute Pulse bus ride downtown to the VCU Health MCV Campus.