Ferrum College

Ferrum College is a private college in Ferrum, Virginia, founded in 1913 as the Ferrum Training School to serve rural mountain communities in Southwest Virginia. The institution later became Ferrum Junior College and now offers undergraduate and graduate programs, with a 700-acre campus near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Franklin County. Its athletic teams, known as the Panthers, compete in NCAA Division II's Conference Carolinas, and the campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.