The US college at the centre of a shooting incident in which 32 people were killed has been criticised in an investigation.
The report concluded that Virginia Tech was too slow to inform staff and students about the shooting incident that rapidly spiralled into the worst campus massacre in US history.
The inquiry said lives might have been saved if not for crucial errors by university police and officials following the shooting of two students in the West Ambler Johnston residence hall early in the morning of 16 April.
Within hours of the first attack, the gunman, 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho, went on to shoot other 30 students and faculty members inside another building before turning his gun on himself.
A total of 33 people, including the gunman, died on campus.
Some family members of those killed have demanded to know why the university did not issue a campus-wide lockdown after the first shootings.
The 147-page report (read executive summary) by an eight-member panel appointed by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine also found that signs of Cho's mental illness had not been properly handled by campus officials.
Cho was briefly admitted to a psychiatric hospital in 2005 but was deemed not a danger to himself or others. He was recommended for outpatient treatment but campus counsellors did not follow up on that.
In video clips, writings and photos which emerged shortly after the massacre, Cho compared himself to Jesus and to the high school killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris who gunned down 13 people in 1999 at Columbine High School (below) before their suicides.
The report did not recommend any officials be dismissed as a result of the inquiry and stated that issues such as the right to bear arms and gun control were beyond its scope.
