About Ferrum College

Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia. The researcher was conventional in 1913 and is united with the United Methodist Church. It enrolls beyond 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offers beyond 54 undergraduate majors and two graduate programs. Ferrum College’s 700-acre campus is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, just outdoor Rocky Mount, Virginia, in Franklin County.

Its supple teams compete in Division III of the NCAA in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC). Ferrum has 11 men’s teams and 14 women’s teams, and its mascot is the Panther. The football team is commonly referred to as the “Black Hats.”

Ferrum is a census-designated place (CDP) in Franklin County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,043 at the 2010 census, an bump of higher than fifty percent from the 1,313 reported in 2000. Ferrum is home to Ferrum College and its Blue Ridge Folklife Festival. It is allowance of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.