New River Community College is a community college in Dublin, Virginia, United States, in the New River Valley of southwestern Virginia. The school opened as New River Vocational-Technical School in 1958 and came under the jurisdiction of Virginia Community College System (VCCS) in 1966. The school's name was changed to its present name in late 1969. The school recently broke new ground by starting a Video Game Technology program, and is one of the few institutes in Virginia to provide this service. This program is housed at the New River Community College New River Valley Mall Site, on VA 114. The college also boasts one of the top Computer Aided Design Programs in Virginia which is also is housed in a state of the art 1,600-square-foot (150 m) CAD Lab at the New Mall site located in the New River Valley Mall in Christiansburg, VA. The CAD program has three AAS degree programs under its umbrella: CAD - Mechanical, Architecture & Game Technology and Animation.