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                                   EXHIBIT 5.1

                                BROAD AND CASSEL
                                ATTORNEYS AT LAW
                                  MIAMI CENTER
                          201 SOUTH BISCAYNE BOULEVARD
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                              MIAMI, FLORIDA 33131
                             TELEPHONE: 305.373.9400
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                             www.broadandcassel.com

                                November 1, 2001

Virtual Academics.com. Inc.
6421 Congress Avenue, Suite 201
Boca Raton, FL  33487

         Re:      Virtual Academics.com, Inc. (the "Company")
                  Registration Statement on Form SB-2

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         You have requested our opinion with respect to the 1,870,000 shares
offered by certain selling shareholders (collectively, the "Shares") of the
Company's common stock, par value $.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), included
in a Registration Statement on Form SB-2, File No. 333-71564, as amended (the
"Form SB-2"), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").

         As counsel to the Company, we have examined the original or certified
copies of such records of the Company, and such agreements, certificates of
public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of the Company
and others, and such other documents as we may deem relevant and necessary for
the opinion expressed in this letter. In such examination, we have assumed the
genuineness of all signatures on original documents, and the conformity to
original documents of all copies submitted to us as conformed or photostatic
copies. As to various questions of fact material to such opinion, we have relied
upon statements or certificates of officials and representatives of the Company
and others.

         Based on, and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the
Shares of Common Stock being registered in the Form SB-2 have been duly and
validly issued, and are fully paid and nonassessable.

         In rendering the opinions expressed below, we advise you that members
of this Firm are members of the Bar of the State of Florida, and we express no
opinion herein concerning the applicability or effect of any laws of any other
jurisdiction, except the Delaware General Corporation Law and the securities
laws of the United States of America referred to herein.


         We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to
the Form SB-2. We also consent to the use of our name under the caption "Legal
Matters" in the prospectus constituting part of the Form SB-2. In giving such
consent, we do not thereby admit that we are included within the category of
persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act, or the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

                                         Very truly yours,


                                         BROAD AND CASSEL
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