[4] The Virginia Wesleyan University campus is also home to the Chesapeake Bay Academy, an educational institution that educates and guides students with learning disabilities, including attention disorders (ADHD), dyslexia, and dysgraphia, and the Tidewater Collegiate Academy, an innovative laboratory for teaching and learning that extends from the primary grades through high school.

"[15] The university was ranked in 2018 and 2019 by U.S. News & World Report among the top 25 institutions in Campus Ethnic Diversity for National Liberal Arts Colleges.

[22][23] The Greer Environmental Sciences Center, dedicated in 2017, received the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s National Conservationist of the Year Award in 2018.

The following complexes and buildings, with completion dates noted, now house the university's academic, administrative, and residential functions.

The following complexes and structures house additional administrative buildings as well as athletic and student activities facilities: Virginia Wesleyan University sports teams are known as the Marlins.

Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, and indoor/outdoor track and field.

[29] In recent years, Virginia Wesleyan University has earned recognition as one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the country.

The Virginia Wesleyan softball team won the 2017 NCAA Division III National Championship with a record 54 wins.

Despite a 42–6 overall record, and number one regular season rating in the NFCA Division III poll, the Marlins lost to the University of Lynchburg in the 2019 NCAA Regional Finals.

[33] In 2021, the VWU Softball team won its third national title in four (complete) season defeating the Texas Lutheran University in the NCAA Division III Championship best of three series with the Marlins claiming a 9–1 win in five innings in the deciding third game.