Statistical profiles of Virginia public institutions, community colleges, and independent institutions are accompanied by brief statements of the institution's history, purpose, commitments to instruction, research, public service, and future development. Statistical data for each of the 39 public and 31 private institutions (1977-1978) include the following: enrollments, academic degree programs, physical facilities, degree-granting levels, institutional organization, institutional operating and capital outlay appropriations, and expenditures. Enrollment data in tabular form include: total enrollment; enrollment by age, level, sex, and race; actual and projected enrollment; admissions applications by level; noncredit registrants; and percent of headcount enrollment by county. Other statistics include tenure of full-time instructional faculty, credit hours by discipline, credit hours by level, degrees conferred, direct cost per credit hour, expenditures, sources of revenues, approved degree programs, degree programs approved for initiation in 1980-82, and research expenditures by discipline. Duties of the State Council of Higher Education that affect the institutional statement of mission are briefly described in the introduction. (CC)