About Norfolk State University

Norfolk State University (NSU) is a public historically black academic circles in Norfolk, Virginia. The the academy is a member-school of Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Virginia High-Tech Partnership.

Norfolk (/ˈnɔːrfʊk/ (listen) NOR-fuuk) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 242,803; in 2019, the population was estimated to be 242,742 making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after adjoining Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 91st-largest city in the nation. The city was incorporated in 1705 and is one of the oldest cities in Hampton Roads metropolitan area, and is considered to be the historic, urban, financial, and cultural center of the region.

Norfolk is at the core of the metropolitan area, surrounding the Hampton Roads natural harbor at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. It is one of nine cities and seven counties that constitute the Hampton Roads metro area, officially known as the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA. The city is bordered to the west by the Elizabeth River and to the north by the Chesapeake Bay. It next shares home borders in the same way as the independent cities of Chesapeake to its south and Virginia Beach to its east.

As the city is bordered by compound bodies of water, Norfolk has many miles of riverfront and bayfront property, including beaches upon the Chesapeake Bay. The coastal zones are important for the economy. The largest naval base in the world, Naval Station Norfolk, is located in Norfolk along bearing in mind one of NATO’s two Strategic Command headquarters. Additionally Norfolk is an important contributor to the Port of Virginia. It is house to Maersk Line, Limited, which manages the world’s largest fleet of US-flag vessels. However, this low lying coastal infrastructure is also unquestionably vulnerable to sea level rise, with water levels time-honored to rise by more than 5.5 feet by the grow less of the 21st century.

The city has a long chronicles as a strategic military and transportation point, where many railroad lines started. It is amalgamated to its neighbors by an extensive network of interstate highways, bridges, tunnels, and three bridge-tunnel complexes.