Benefits and Services

Your alumni associations offer a variety of benefits and services that provide excellent value for all alumni as well as dues-paying members of the association. We continue to add benefits and services, so please check back periodically. 

Active, dues-paying members of the alumni associations can get access to very powerful online resources and save hundreds of dollars. 

We hope you will take advantage of these great benefits and services. Join now!

Benefits for all alumni

Benefits for active, dues-paying members of the alumni associations

Services for students and alumni

Benefits for all alumni

• Insurance discounts on:
  • home and auto insurance
  • renter's insurance  
  • health and life insurance
  • short-term health insurance  
  • long-term care insurance
  • pet insurance      
  • travel insurance
• Alumni association credit cards
• Unique travel opportunities
• Alumni merchandise 
• VCU Rams Roast coffee
• Alumni events
• Subscription to monthly e-newsletter for all alumni with registered e-mail addresses 
• Career services information provided online  
• Complimentary subscription to the award-winning alumni magazine Scarab (for MCV Campus alumni only)

Benefits for active, dues-paying members of the alumni associations

All of the above benefits PLUS:

• Online Journals Access to Academic & Business Search publications database  (Web site registration required)
• CareerBeam online career development tools (Web site registration required – complimentary access currently available to everyone who registers to use the Web site until June 30, 2010)
• Complimentary subscription to the award-winning alumni magazine Shafer Court Connections (VCU Alumni Association members only) 
• VCU or MCV alumni license plate frame
• Use of the Robertson Alumni House or MCV Alumni House and Gross Conference Center (fee applies)  
• Full-color photo calendar featuring the VCU campuses (Life members and Membership Month members)
• Discounts on athletic events and invitations to exclusive watch parties
• Discounts at campus bookstores
• Discounts on Recreational Sports memberships
• Invitations to members-only events
• Scholarship opportunities for your children and grandchildren
• International hotel and car rental discounts
• 30 percent discount on overnight stays at Virginia Beach Resort Hotel

Services for students and alumni 

• GradTrip: 11-day post-graduation European Tour for grads and undergrads
• Your Passport to the World graduates’ gala
• Graduation photos 
• Official class rings
• Transcripts