rail service on more than 45 miles of double track in the City of Atlanta and DeKalb and Ful-. ton Counties. MARTA has invested approximately $3.7 billion in its bus and rail equipment. and property, and it is the nationâs eighth largest transit system.
In 1968, MCV joined with the Richmond Professional Institute to form Virginia Commonwealth University.[1] The School of Medicine is one of five schools within the VCU Medical Center. Located on VCU's MCV Campus in Richmond, Virginia, the medical school offers dozens of master's, doctoral and interdisciplinary programs in addition to the M.D. degree, postdoctoral research and residency training opportunities.
VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden-Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virginia in 1854. In 1968, the General Assembly merged MCV with the Richmond Professional Institute, founded in 1917, to create Virginia Commonwealth University. Today, VCU offers comprehensive undergraduate, masterâs, doctoral and professional programs and encompasses one of the largest academic health centers in the nation.