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{{Short description|Public university in Charlottesville, Virginia, US}}
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 | name                   = University of Virginia
 | image_name             = University of Virginia seal.svg
 | image_upright          = 0.7
 | founder                = [[Thomas Jefferson]]
 | established            = {{start date and age|January 25, 1819}}<ref>{{cite web |title = History |url = https://bicentennial.virginia.edu/history |website = University of Virginia Bicentennial |publisher = Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia |access-date = March 3, 2020 |archive-date = March 3, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200303182031/https://bicentennial.virginia.edu/history |url-status = dead }}</ref>
 | type                   = [[Public university#United States|Public]] [[research university]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist|
[[Association of American Universities|AAU]]|[[Oak Ridge Associated Universities|ORAU]]|[[State Council of Higher Education for Virginia|SCHEV]]|[[Universities Research Association|URA]]|[[National Sea Grant College Program|Sea-grant]]|[[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]}}
 | accreditation          = [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools|SACS]]
 | endowment              = $10.2 billion ([[Fiscal year|FY]]2024)<ref name=NACUBO>As of June 30, 2024. {{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | budget                 = $5.8&nbsp;billion (FY2025)<ref name = "Budget">{{cite web |title = Finance Committee approves 2024-25 operating budget and Major Capital Plan |url = https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/06/finance-committee-approves-2024-25-operating-budget-and-major-capital-plan |website = Financial Planning and Analysis, UVA |publisher = Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia |access-date = February 25, 2020 |archive-date = February 25, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200225123229/https://financialplanning.vpfinance.virginia.edu/sites/financialplanning.virginia.edu/files/FY2020%20Final%20Operating%20Budget%20060419.pdf |url-status = dead }}</ref>{{efn|This figure refers to the consolidated operating budget. The consolidated operating budget, including the Academic Division, the [[University of Virginia Health System#Components|Medical Center]] and the [[University of Virginia's College at Wise|College at Wise]], totals $5.8&nbsp;billion.<ref name = "Budget" />}}
 | president              = [[Paul Mahoney (American lawyer)|Paul G. Mahoney]] (interim)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/university-virginia-appoints-interim-president.html|website=The New York Times|title=University of Virginia Appoints Interim President After Ouster|date=August 4, 2025 |access-date=August 4, 2025}}</ref>
 | provost                = [[Brie Gertler]] (interim)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://provost.virginia.edu/|website=University of Virginia|title=Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost|access-date=March 24, 2025}}</ref>
 | students               = 25,944 (fall 2023)<ref name="Enrollment">{{cite web |title = Enrollment |url = https://ira.virginia.edu/university-data-home/enrollment |website = Institutional Research and Analytics |publisher = Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia |access-date = December 4, 2023 |archive-date = December 4, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231204214001/https://ira.virginia.edu/university-data-home/enrollment |url-status = live }}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 17,618 (fall 2023)<ref name="Enrollment" />
 | postgrad               = 8,326 (fall 2023)<ref name="Enrollment" />
 | faculty                = 3,265 (fall 2019)<ref name="Employee Data">{{cite web |title = Employees |url = https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/employees |website = Institutional Research and Analytics, U.Va. |publisher = Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia |access-date = February 26, 2020 |archive-date = February 20, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220220080940/https://ira.virginia.edu/university-stats-facts/employees |url-status = live }}</ref><br />{{Bulleted list |3,083 full-time |182 part-time}}
 | administrative_staff   = 6,292 (fall 2019)<ref name="Employee Data" />{{efn|The total number of administrative staff listed here represents the total number of Classified Staff and University Staff.<ref name="Employee Data" />}}<br />{{Bulleted list |6,149 full-time |143 part-time}}
 | city                   = [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]]
 | state                  = [[Virginia]]
 | country                = United States
 | coordinates            = {{coord|38|02|08|N|78|30|12|W|region:US_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
 | campus                 = Small suburb<ref>{{cite web |title=IPEDS Data Center: University of Virginia-Main Campus |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/institutionprofile.aspx?unitId=234076&goToReportId=6 |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=October 12, 2022 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017041116/https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/institutionprofile.aspx?unitId=234076&goToReportId=6 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{convert|1135|acre|ha}}<ref name = "Campus">{{cite web |url = https://www.officearchitect.virginia.edu/pdfs/PrecinctPlanWeb.%20pdf |title = Precinct Plans (2011) |website = U.Va. Office of the Architect for the University |access-date = March 4, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200305102813/https://www./ |archive-date = March 5, 2020 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
 | free_label             = Other campuses<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.schev.edu/students/applying-for-college/colleges-universities|title=Virginia Public Colleges and their Other Locations|access-date=September 1, 2022|archive-date=September 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901232136/https://www.schev.edu/students/applying-for-college/colleges-universities|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | free                   = {{hlist|[[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]]|[[Chantilly, Virginia|Chantilly]]|[[Falls Church, Virginia|Falls Church]]|[[Henrico, Virginia|Henrico]]|[[McLean, Virginia|McLean]]|[[Newport News, Virginia|Newport News]]|[[Pembroke, Virginia|Pembroke]]|[[Venice]]}}
 | free_label2            = Newspaper
 | free2                  = ''[[The Cavalier Daily]]''
 | colors                 = Orange and blue<ref name= "colors">{{cite book |title = Colors &#124; University of Virginia |url = https://brand.virginia.edu/brand-essentials/colors |date = October 17, 2017 |access-date = November 14, 2017 |archive-date = June 22, 2022 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220622182621/https://brand.virginia.edu/brand-essentials/colors |url-status = live }}</ref><br>{{color box|#E57200}} {{color box|#232D4B}}
 | nickname               = {{hlist|[[Virginia Cavaliers|Cavaliers]]|[[Wahoos (University of Virginia)|Wahoos]]}}
 | mascot                 = [[Cavalier]]
 | sporting_affiliations  = [[NCAA Division I FBS]] – [[Atlantic Coast Conference|ACC]]
 | website                = {{Official URL}}
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   | designation1_date = 1987 <small>(11th [[World Heritage Committee|session]])</small>
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   | designation2_offname = University Of Virginia Historic District
   | designation2_date = 1971-11-11
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 | logo                   = [[File:University of Virginia Rotunda logo.svg|50px]]&nbsp;&nbsp;[[File:University of Virginia logo.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert|150px]]
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The '''University of Virginia''' ('''UVA''' or '''Virginia''') is a [[Public university#United States|public]] [[research university]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], United States. It was founded in 1819 by [[Thomas Jefferson]] and contains his [[The Lawn|Academical Village]], a [[World Heritage Site|UNESCO World Heritage Site]]. The original governing Board of Visitors included three [[List of presidents of the United States|U.S. presidents]]: Jefferson, [[James Madison]], and [[James Monroe]], the latter as sitting president of the United States at the time of its foundation. As its first two [[Rector (academia)#United States|rectors]], Presidents Jefferson and Madison played key roles in the university's foundation, with Jefferson designing both the [[#1800s|original courses]] of study and the university's [[#Academical Village|architecture]].

Located within its 1,135-acre central campus, the university is composed of eight undergraduate and three professional schools: the [[University of Virginia School of Law|School of Law]], the [[University of Virginia Darden School of Business|Darden School of Business]], and the [[University of Virginia School of Medicine|School of Medicine]].<ref name="Depts">[http://www.virginia.edu/depts.html Departments and Schools of UVA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303013053/http://www.virginia.edu/depts.html|date=March 3, 2016}}, accessed February 21, 2016</ref> The university has been a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] since 1904.

The university's leadership, faculty, research staff, and alumni have included several [[United States president]]s, foreign [[Head of state|heads of state]], [[wikidata:Wikidata:University of Virginia/Listeria/UVa people/Nobel laureates|Nobel laureates]], [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, [[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall Scholars]], [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Scholars]], and 57 [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]]&mdash;the most of any state university. Its alumni include 30 state governors (including thirteen [[List of governors of Virginia|Governors of Virginia]]) and 33 [[United States Senate|United States senators]]. UVA students and alumni have founded companies such as [[Reddit]], [[Skillshare]], [[VMware]], and [[Space Adventures]]. Its athletic teams are called the [[Virginia Cavaliers|Cavaliers]] and they compete in [[NCAA Division I]] as members of the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]].

==History==
{{Main|History of the University of Virginia}}

===1800s===
[[File:Gilbert Stuart Thomas Jefferson.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Thomas Jefferson]], the university's founder, by [[Gilbert Stuart]] ({{circa|1821}})]]

<!--Paragraph #1: Topic: Background, planning, context-->[[File:University of Virginia Rotunda in 2006.jpg|thumb|[[The Rotunda (University of Virginia)|The Rotunda]], as pictured from the South Lawn|left]]In 1802, while serving as president of the United States, [[Thomas Jefferson]] wrote to artist [[Charles Willson Peale]] that his concept of the new university would be "on the most extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for and our faculties meet," and it might even attract talented students from "other states to come, and drink of the cup of knowledge."<ref name="Peale">Alf J. Mapp, Jr., ''Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim'', p. 19.</ref> Virginia was already home to the [[College of William & Mary]] in Williamsburg, but Jefferson lost all confidence in his ''alma mater,'' partly because of its religious nature—it required all its students to recite a [[catechism]]—and its stifling of the sciences.<ref name="yalereview1878">''New Englander and Yale Review'', Volume 37, W. L. Kingsley, "Ought the State provide for Higher Education?", 1878, page 378.</ref><ref name="russell">Phillips Russell, ''Jefferson, Champion of the Free Mind'', p. 335.</ref> Jefferson had flourished under [[College of William & Mary|William & Mary]] professors [[William Small]] and [[George Wythe]] decades earlier, but the college was in a period of great decline and his concern became so dire by 1800 that he expressed to British chemist [[Joseph Priestley]], "we have in that State, a college just well enough endowed to draw out the miserable existence to which a miserable constitution has doomed it." These words would ring true some seventy years later when William & Mary fell bankrupt after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and the Williamsburg college was shuttered completely in 1881, later being revived as primarily a small college for teachers until it regained university status later in the twentieth century.<ref>[https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/17228 An Act to Establish A Normal School, 5 March 1888] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905235712/https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/17228 |date=September 5, 2014 }}, accessed September 5, 2014</ref> Jefferson envisioned his new university would "be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."<ref name="Reason">[[Dumas Malone]], ''Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello'', p. 417–418.</ref>

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In 1817, three presidents (Jefferson, [[James Monroe]], and [[James Madison]]) and [[Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court]] [[John Marshall]] joined 24 other dignitaries at a meeting held in the Mountain Top Tavern at [[Rockfish Gap]]. After some deliberation, they selected nearby Charlottesville as the site of the new University of Virginia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.snp.guide/p/turk-mountain-overlook-to-rockfish-gap.html |title="Guide to SNP" – Turk Mountain Overlook to Rockfish Gap |website=snp.guide |access-date=June 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603010939/http://www.guidetosnp.com/web/LogoftheDrive/logs6.aspx |archive-date=June 3, 2010 }}</ref> The UVA Board of Visitors purchased just outside [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]] a farm that had once been owned by James Monroe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/highland/ashlawn2.html |title=An Account of James Monroe's Land Holdings |access-date=December 1, 2023 |archive-date=December 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203214038/http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/highland/ashlawn2.html |url-status=live }} Research conducted for the Ash Lawn-Highland Museum and the Institute for Public History of the University of Virginia in 1998: in 1788-9 George Nicholas had sold the land to James Monroe (without a recorded deed); in 1810 Monroe's attorney sold it to George Divers to pay Monroe's creditors; in 1810 it was resold to John Nicholas; in 1814 resold again to John Perry; and in 1820 the Proctor of the University bought the land from its then-owner John Perry for the University.</ref> The Commonwealth of Virginia chartered a new flagship university to be based on the site in Charlottesville on January 25, 1819. 

[[John Hartwell Cocke]] collaborated with James Madison, Monroe, and Joseph Carrington Cabell to fulfill Jefferson's dream to establish the university. Cocke and Jefferson were appointed to the building committee to supervise the construction.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dabney |first=Virginius |author-link=Virginius Dabney |url=http://repo.lib.virginia.edu:18080/fedora/get/uva-lib:179274/uva-lib-bdef:100/getFullView |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715002828/http://repo.lib.virginia.edu:18080/fedora/get/uva-lib:179274/uva-lib-bdef:100/getFullView |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |title=Mr. Jefferson's University: A History |location=[[Charlottesville]] |publisher=[[University of Virginia Press]] |year=1981 |isbn=0-8139-0904-X |page=3 }}</ref> The UVA Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights is continuing to "seek opportunities to engage and acknowledge with respect that we live, learn, and work on [what once was] the territory of the [[Monacan Indian Nation]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eocr.virginia.edu/monacan |title=Indigenous/UVA Relating |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=eocr.virginia.edu |date=November 2019 |publisher= |access-date= |quote='acknowledge with respect that we live, learn, and work on the traditional territory of the Monacan Indian Nation.' |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926201759/https://eocr.virginia.edu/monacan |url-status=live }}</ref> Like many of its peers,<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/23/university.slavery/index.html Colleges come to terms with slave-owning pasts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009061334/http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/23/university.slavery/index.html |date=October 9, 2018 }}, accessed October 8, 2018</ref> the university owned slaves who helped build the campus.<ref name="apmreportsshackledlegacy">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Stephen |title=Shackled Legacy: History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities |url=https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy |access-date=June 9, 2018 |work=American Public Media |date=September 4, 2017 |quote=The university bought a number slaves to work with free black and white laborers. Slaves did all facets of the work, leveling the ground, planing the timber, quarrying the stone and firing the bricks. ... More than 100 slaves worked on campus at a given time, serving more than 600 students and faculty, records show. |archive-date=June 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615195420/https://www.apmreports.org/story/2017/09/04/shackled-legacy |url-status=live }}</ref> They also served students and professors.<ref name="apmreportsshackledlegacy" /> The [[Memorial to Enslaved Laborers]] on Central Grounds was built to memorialize their lives and legacies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Memorial to Enslaved Laborers |url=https://mel.virginia.edu/ |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=mel.virginia.edu}}</ref> The university's first classes met on March 7, 1825.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bruce |first=Philip Alexander |title=History of the University of Virginia, vol. II |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924092701618 |place=New York City |publisher=Macmillan |year=1920 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316094745/https://archive.org/details/cu31924092701618 |archive-date=March 16, 2016 }}</ref>

In contrast to other universities of the day, at which one could study in either medicine, law, or divinity, the first students at the University of Virginia could study in one or several of eight independent schools – medicine, law, mathematics, chemistry, ancient languages, modern languages, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy.<ref>''Popular Science'', July 1905, "The Progress of Science"</ref> Another innovation of the new university was that higher education would be separated from religious doctrine. UVA had no divinity school, was established independently of any religious sect, and [[#Campus|the Grounds]] were planned and centered upon a library, [[Rotunda (University of Virginia)|the Rotunda]], rather than a church, distinguishing it from peer universities still primarily functioning as seminaries for one particular strain of Protestantism or another.<ref name="sem">[[Joseph J. Ellis]], ''American Sphinx'', p. 283.</ref> Jefferson opined to philosopher [[Thomas Cooper (American politician, born 1759)|Thomas Cooper]] that "a professorship of theology should have no place in our institution",<ref>"Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 7 October 1814," Founders Online, [[National Archives and Records Administration]], https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0007 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115022428/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0007 |date=January 15, 2024 }}. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: [[Princeton University Press]], 2011, pp. 12–13.]</ref> and never has there been one. There were initially two degrees awarded by the university: ''Graduate,'' to a student who had completed the courses of one school; and ''Doctor'' to a graduate in more than one school who had shown research prowess.<ref name="1911EB">{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Virginia, University of |volume=28 |pages=125–126}}</ref>

Jefferson was intimately involved in the university to the end, hosting Sunday dinners at his [[Monticello]] home for faculty and students. Jefferson viewed the university's foundation as having such great importance and potential that he counted it among his greatest accomplishments and insisted his grave mention only his status as author of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] and [[Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom]], and father of the University of Virginia. Thus, he eschewed mention of his national accomplishments, such as the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and any other aspects of his presidency, in favor of his role with the young university.

Initially, some of the students arriving at the university matched the then-common picture of college students: wealthy, spoiled aristocrats with a sense of privilege which often led to brawling, or worse. This was a source of frustration for Jefferson, who assembled the students during the school's first year, on October 3, 1825, to criticize such behavior; but was too overcome to speak. He later spoke of this moment as "the most painful event" of his life.<ref name="bb">"[http://uvamagazine.org/articles/bad_boys Bad Boys] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229101436/http://uvamagazine.org/articles/bad_boys |date=December 29, 2016 }}", ''Virginia'', Carlos Santos</ref>

[[File:James Madison.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|[[James Madison]] was the second rector of the University of Virginia until 1836.]]

Although the frequency of such irresponsible behavior dropped after Jefferson's expression of concern, it did not die away completely. Like many universities and colleges, it experienced periodic [[student riots]], culminating in the shooting death of Professor [[John A. G. Davis]], Chairman of the Faculty, in 1840. This event, in conjunction with [[Honor system at the University of Virginia|the new UVA Honor System]] and the growing popularity of temperance and a rise in religious affiliation in society in general, seems to have resulted in a permanent change in student attitudes toward reporting the bad behavior, and thus such behavior among students that had so greatly bothered Jefferson finally vanished.<ref name="bb"/>

In the year of Jefferson's death in 1826, poet [[Edgar Allan Poe]] enrolled at the university, where he excelled in Latin.<ref>"[https://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/rotunda/prefire/early/poe Edgar Allan Poe at the University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224183900/https://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/rotunda/prefire/early/poe |date=February 24, 2021 }}," ''University of Virginia Library.'' 2018. Accessed May 19, 2018.</ref> The [[Raven Society]], an organization named after Poe's most famous poem, continues to maintain 13 West Range, the room Poe inhabited during the single semester he attended the university.<ref>"[https://aig.alumni.virginia.edu/raven/history-raven-society/ History of the Raven Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924123705/https://aig.alumni.virginia.edu/raven/history-raven-society/ |date=September 24, 2020 }}," ''The Raven Society,'' 2018. Accessed May 19, 2018.</ref> He left because of financial difficulties. The [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science]] opened in 1836, making UVA the first comprehensive university to open an engineering school.
[[File:John Hartwell Cocke cropped.png|thumb|right|upright|J. Hartwell Cocke supervised construction with Jefferson.]]
Unlike the majority of Southern colleges, the university was kept open throughout the Civil War, despite its state seeing more bloodshed than any other and the near 100% [[conscription]] of the [[American South]].<ref name="CivilWarTrust">[http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html Civil War Casualties by the Civil War Trust] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113041950/http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html |date=January 13, 2013 }}, accessed September 5, 2014</ref> After [[Jubal Early]]'s total loss at the [[Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia|Battle of Waynesboro]], Charlottesville was willingly surrendered to Union forces to avoid mass bloodshed, and UVA faculty convinced [[George Armstrong Custer]] to preserve Jefferson's university.<ref>[http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Charlottesville_During_the_Civil_War Charlottesville During the Civil War] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906043011/http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Charlottesville_During_the_Civil_War |date=September 6, 2014 }}, accessed September 5, 2014</ref> Although [[Union Army|Union troops]] camped on the Lawn and damaged many of the Pavilions, Custer's men left four days later without bloodshed and the university was able to return to its educational mission. However, an extremely high number of officers of both Confederacy and Union were alumni.<ref name="1913alumninews">''University of Virginia Alumni News'', Volume II, Issue 7, page 74, December 10, 1913. Accessed September 5, 2014</ref> UVA produced 1,481 officers in the [[Confederate Army]] alone, including four major-generals, twenty-one brigadier-generals, and sixty-seven colonels from ten different states.<ref name="1913alumninews" /> [[John S. Mosby]], the infamous "Gray Ghost" and commander of the lightning-fast [[43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry]] ranger unit, had also been a UVA student.

Thanks to a grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia, tuition became free for all Virginians in the year 1875.<ref name="AmCyc">See wikisource link to the right</ref> During this period, the University of Virginia remained unique in that it had no president and mandated no [[core curriculum]] from its students, who often studied in and took degrees from more than one school.<ref name="AmCyc" /> However, the university was also experiencing growing pains. As the original [[The Rotunda (University of Virginia)|Rotunda]] caught fire and [[#Academical Village|was gutted]] in 1895, there would soon be sweeping changes, much greater than merely reconstructing the Rotunda in 1899.

===1900s===
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[[File:Alderman 1920.jpg|thumb|upright=0.70|[[Edwin Alderman]] was UVA's first president between 1904 and 1931 and instituted many reforms toward modernization.]]

Jefferson had originally decided the University of Virginia would have no serving president. Rather, this power was to be shared by a rector and the [[Board of Visitors]]. But as the 19th century waned, it became obvious this cumbersome arrangement was incapable of adequately handling the many administrative and fundraising tasks of the growing university.<ref name="EVAlderman">Encyclopedia Virginia [http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Alderman_Edwin_Anderson_1861-1931 President Edwin Alderman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228003042/http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Alderman_Edwin_Anderson_1861-1931 |date=December 28, 2011 }} "By the turn of the 20th century the administrative affairs had grown to such an extent that the old form of government became too cumbersome. The appointment of Alderman brought a new era of progressivism to the university and service to Virginia." Retrieved January 25, 2012</ref> [[Edwin Alderman]], who had only recently moved from his post as president of [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC-Chapel Hill]] since 1896 to become president of [[Tulane University]] in 1900, accepted an offer as president of the University of Virginia in 1904. His appointment was not without controversy, and national media such as ''[[Popular Science]]'' lamented the end of one of the things that made UVA unique among universities.<ref>''Popular Science'', July 1905 Volume 67, "The Progress of Science"</ref>

Alderman stayed 27 years, and became known as a prolific fund-raiser, a well-known orator, and a close adviser to U.S. president and UVA alumnus [[Woodrow Wilson]].<ref name="EVAlderman" /> He added significantly to the University Hospital to support new sickbeds and public health research, and helped create departments of geology and forestry, the [[University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development|School of Education and Human Development]] (originally the Curry School of Education), the [[McIntire School of Commerce]], and the summer school programs in which young [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] took part.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bruce |first=Philip Alexander |author-link=Philip Alexander Bruce |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i68VAAAAIAAJ&q=edwin+alderman+philip+bruce&pg=PA45 |title=The History of the University of Virginia: The Lengthening Shadow of One Man |year=1921 |volume=V |location=New York |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishing|Macmillan]] |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017041108/https://books.google.com/books?id=i68VAAAAIAAJ&q=edwin+alderman+philip+bruce&pg=PA45 |url-status=live }}</ref> Perhaps his greatest ambition was the funding and construction of a library on a scale of millions of books, much larger than the Rotunda could bear. Delayed by the [[Great Depression]], Alderman Library was named in his honor in 1938. Alderman, who seven years earlier had died in office en route to giving a public speech at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]], is still the longest-tenured president of the university.

In 1904, UVA became the first university south of Washington, D.C. to be elected to the [[Association of American Universities]]. After a gift by [[Andrew Carnegie]] in 1909 the University of Virginia was organized into twenty-six departments across six schools including the [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|Andrew Carnegie School of Engineering]], the [[University of Virginia School of Law|James Madison School of Law]], the [[James Monroe]] School of International Law, the [[James Southall Wilson|James Wilson]] School of Political Economy, the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] School of English and the [[University of Virginia Medical School|Walter Reed School of Pathology]].<ref name="1911EB" /> The honorific historical names for these schools – several of which have remained as modern [[#Organization and administration|schools of the university]] – are no longer used.

In December 1953, the University of Virginia joined the [[Atlantic Coast Conference]] for athletics. At the time, UVA had a football program that had just broken through to be nationally ranked in 1950, 1951, and 1952, and consistently beat its rivals North Carolina and Virginia Tech by scores such as 34–7 and 44–0. Other sports were very competitive as well. However, the administration of [[Colgate Darden]] de-emphasized athletics, defunding the department and declining to join the ACC before being overruled by the Board of Visitors on that decision. It would take until the 1980s for the bulk of athletics programs to fully recover but approaching the year 2000 UVA was again one of the [[#Athletics|most successful all-around sports programs]] with NCAA national titles achieved in an array of different sports; by 2020, it had twice won the [[Capital One Cup (college sports)|Capital One Cup]] for overall athletics excellence in men's sports programs.

UVA established a [[junior college]] in 1954, known today as the [[University of Virginia's College at Wise]]. [[George Mason University]] and [[Mary Washington University]] used to similarly exist as UVA's [[satellite campus]]es, but those are now wholly independent universities no longer administered by the University of Virginia.

The [[#Academical Village|Academical Village]] and nearby [[Monticello]] became a joint [[World Heritage Site]] in 1987. Simultaneously with [[Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park]] and [[Chaco Culture National Historical Park]], they were the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth U.S. sites designated as culturally significant to the collective interests of global humanity, coming after the [[Statue of Liberty]] and [[Yosemite National Park]] three years earlier. As such, UVA possesses the only U.S. collegiate grounds to be internationally protected by the [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] (UNESCO).

==== Integration, coeducation, and student dissent ====
The University of Virginia first admitted a few selected women to graduate studies in the late 1890s and to certain programs such as nursing and education in the 1920s and 1930s.<ref name="Breaking and Making Tradition">{{cite web |url=http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/women/coeducation1.htmlhttp:// |title=Breaking and Making Tradition: Women at U VA |publisher=University of Virginia Library |access-date=September 14, 2012 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017041614/https://www.library.virginia.edu/exhibitions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1944, [[University of Mary Washington|Mary Washington College]] in [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]], became the Women's Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Division of the University of Virginia. With this branch campus in Fredericksburg exclusively for women, UVA maintained its main campus in Charlottesville as near-exclusively for men, until a civil rights lawsuit in the 1960s forced it to commingle the sexes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/projects/kenan/home.html|title=Storming the Gates of Knowledge: A Documentary History of Desegregation and Coeducation in Jefferson's Academical Village|author=Priya N. Parker|date=2004|access-date=May 9, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054418/http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/projects/kenan/home.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> In 1970, the Charlottesville campus became fully co-educational, and in 1972 Mary Washington became an independent state university.<ref>{{cite book
| last      = Alvey
| first     = Edward
| title     = History of Mary Washington College 1908–1972
| publisher = University of Virginia Press
| year      = 1974
| pages     = 278, 511
| isbn      = 978-0-8139-0528-0}}</ref> When the first female class arrived, 450 undergraduate women entered UVA, comprising 39 percent of undergraduates, while the number of men admitted remained constant. By 1999, women made up a 52 percent majority of the total student body.<ref name="Breaking and Making Tradition" /><ref name="enrollmentdata">[http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/hist/enroll/year_by_gender.htm Historical Enrollment Data] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907051621/http://avillage.web.virginia.edu/iaas/instreports/studat/hist/enroll/year_by_gender.htm |date=September 7, 2014 }}, accessed September 6, 2014</ref>

The university admitted its first black student when Gregory Swanson sued to gain entrance into the university's law school in 1950.<ref name="Road to Desegregation">{{cite web|url=http://www.virginia.edu/100yearslawn/HarrisonI/Road.htmlhttp://|title=The Road to Desegregation: Jackson, NAACP, and Swanson|access-date=September 14, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021195347/http://www.virginia.edu/100yearslawn/HarrisonI/Road.html|archive-date=October 21, 2012}}</ref> Following his successful lawsuit, a handful of black graduate and professional students were admitted during the 1950s, though no black undergraduates were admitted until 1955, and UVA did not fully integrate until the 1960s.<ref name = "Road to Desegregation"/> When Walter Ridley graduated with a doctorate in education, he was the first black person to graduate from UVA.<ref name="Road to Desegregation" /> UVA's Ridley Scholarship Fund is named in his honor.<ref name="Road to Desegregation" />

The fight for integration and coeducation came to the foreground particularly in the late 1960s, leading up to the [[Student strike of 1970|May Strike of 1970]], in which students protested for higher black enrollment, equal access to UVA admission by undergraduate women, unionization of employees, and against the presence of armed university police and recruiters of government agencies such as the [[CIA]] and [[FBI]] on Grounds.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=May 21, 1970|title=President Shannon Met with STudent Council Tuesday Night|journal=The Sally Hemings|volume=1|issue=16|pages=1–2}}</ref>

===21st century===
[[File:Secretary Kerry Walks With UVA President Sullivan.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Teresa A. Sullivan|President Sullivan]] speaking with U.S. Secretary of State [[John Kerry]] in front of [[The Rotunda (University of Virginia)|the Rotunda]] in February 2013]]

Due to a continual decline in state funding for the university, today only 6 percent of its budget comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia.<ref name="CDstate" /> A Charter initiative was signed into law by then-[[Governor of Virginia|Governor]] [[Mark Warner]] in 2005, negotiated with the university to have greater autonomy over its own affairs in exchange for accepting this [[#State support|decline in financial support]].<ref name="Virginia restructuring">{{cite web |url=http://www.virginia.edu/restructuring/legislation.html |title=Legislation |work=Restructuring Higher Education |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=May 22, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708232040/http://www.virginia.edu/restructuring/legislation.html |archive-date=July 8, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Virginia restructuring FAQ">{{cite web |url=http://www.virginia.edu/restructuring/legislation.html |title=Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) |work=Restructuring Higher Education |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=May 22, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708232040/http://www.virginia.edu/restructuring/legislation.html |archive-date=July 8, 2008 }}</ref>

The university welcomed [[Teresa A. Sullivan]] as its first female president in 2010.<ref>de Vise, Daniel, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803847.html "Teresa Sullivan Is First Female President to Lead University of Virginia"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111204051/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803847.html |date=November 11, 2012 }} ''Washington Post'', January 19, 2010.</ref> Just two years later its first woman rector, [[Helen Dragas]], engineered a forced-resignation to remove President Sullivan from office.<ref name="Anatomy of a Campus Coup">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/magazine/teresa-sullivan-uva-ouster.html?pagewanted=all |title=Anatomy of a Campus Coup |author=Rice, Andrew |date=September 11, 2012 |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=September 17, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917014658/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/magazine/teresa-sullivan-uva-ouster.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=September 17, 2012 }}</ref><ref>''The Hook'', a Charlottesville weekly, posted a series of articles detailing events as they occurred, collected at {{cite news |author=Hawes Spencer |title=The Ousting of a President |url=http://www.readthehook.com/special/ousting-president |work=[[The Hook (newspaper)|The Hook]] |access-date=November 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113192401/http://www.readthehook.com/special/ousting-president |archive-date=November 13, 2014 }}(2012–13)</ref> The attempted ouster elicited a faculty Senate vote of no confidence in Rector Dragas, and demands from student government for an explanation.<ref>{{cite news |author=Daily Progress Staff |title=UVa Faculty Senate issues vote of no confidence in rector, Board of Visitors |url=http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/uva-faculty-senate-issues-vote-of-no-confidence-in-rector/article_456d9a37-0930-5be6-9b95-8c47947cdcf3.html |work=[[The Daily Progress]] |date=June 14, 2012 |access-date=May 22, 2013 |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022050639/https://dailyprogress.com/news/uva-faculty-senate-issues-vote-of-no-confidence-in-rector/article_456d9a37-0930-5be6-9b95-8c47947cdcf3.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=StudentCouncilReaction>{{cite web|url=http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jun/15/uva-student-council-seeks-full-explanation-ouster-ar-1990754/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205004958/http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/jun/15/uva-student-council-seeks-full-explanation-ouster-ar-1990754/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 5, 2013 |title=U.Va. Student Council seeks full explanation of ouster |author=Karin Kapsidelis |publisher=[[Richmond Times-Dispatch]] |date=June 15, 2012 |access-date=June 19, 2012 }}</ref> In the face of mounting pressure including alumni threats to cease contributions, and a mandate from then-Governor [[Robert McDonnell]] to resolve the issue or face removal of the entire Board of Visitors, the board unanimously reinstated President Sullivan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alumni Pledge Thousands in Donations Following Sullivan's Reinstatement |url=http://www.newsplex.com/unsettledgrounds/headlines/160629985.html?site=full |work=Newsplex.com |date=June 28, 2012 |access-date=May 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629235131/http://www.newsplex.com/unsettledgrounds/headlines/160629985.html?site=full |archive-date=June 29, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/u-va-dean-tapped-for-interim-president-suspends-discussions-about-new-job/2012/06/22/gJQAniQ0uV_story.html|title=McDonnell tells U-Va. board to resolve leadership crisis, or he will remove members|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|author1=Anita Kumar|author2=Jenna Johnson|name-list-style=amp|date=June 22, 2012|access-date=June 26, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623120343/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/u-va-dean-tapped-for-interim-president-suspends-discussions-about-new-job/2012/06/22/gJQAniQ0uV_story.html|archive-date=June 23, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Virginia-Board-Votes-to/132603/ |title=U. of Virginia Board Votes to Reinstate Sullivan |author1=Sara Hebel |author2=Jack Stripling |author3=Robin Wilson |name-list-style=amp |newspaper=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |date=June 26, 2012 |access-date=June 26, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628061626/http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Virginia-Board-Votes-to/132603/ |archive-date=June 28, 2012 }}</ref> In 2013 and 2014, the board passed new bylaws that made it harder to remove a president and possible to remove a rector.<ref>[http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/09/board-to-vote-on-rector-removal-clause Board to Vote on Rector Removal Clause] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908085642/http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/09/board-to-vote-on-rector-removal-clause |date=September 8, 2014 }}, accessed September 8, 2014</ref>

In November 2014, the university suspended fraternity and sorority functions pending investigation of [[A Rape on Campus|an article]] by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' concerning an alleged rape story, which was later determined to be a [[hoax]] after the story was confirmed to be false through investigation by ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/09/phi-psi-chapter-at-u-va-files-25-million-lawsuit-against-rolling-stone/ Phi Psi Files $25 million Lawsuit Against Rolling Stone] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601154120/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/09/phi-psi-chapter-at-u-va-files-25-million-lawsuit-against-rolling-stone/ |date=June 1, 2016 }}, accessed February 19, 2016</ref><ref name=OTM>{{cite web|title=SPECIAL: The UVA Story|url=http://www.onthemedia.org/story/special-uva-story/transcript/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141207085956/http://www.onthemedia.org/story/special-uva-story/transcript/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 7, 2014|publisher=[[On the Media]]|access-date=December 7, 2014|date=December 6, 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/10/the-lies-of-uvas-jackie-read-all-the-cat The Lies of UVA's Jackie: Read All the Catfishing Texts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024163558/http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/10/the-lies-of-uvas-jackie-read-all-the-cat |date=October 24, 2016 }}, accessed February 19, 2016</ref> The university nonetheless instituted new rules banning "pre-mixed drinks, punches or any other common source of alcohol" such as beer kegs and requiring "sober and lucid" fraternity members to monitor all parties.<ref name="The_Washington_Post_January_7_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-safety-rules-announced-for-fraternities-at-u-va-a-response-to-rolling-stone-uproar/2015/01/06/5ae2188a-95e0-11e4-927a-4fa2638cd1b0_story.html?hpid=z4 |title=New safety rules announced for University of Virginia fraternity parties |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 7, 2015 |author=Nick Anderson |access-date=January 7, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133425/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-safety-rules-announced-for-fraternities-at-u-va-a-response-to-rolling-stone-uproar/2015/01/06/5ae2188a-95e0-11e4-927a-4fa2638cd1b0_story.html?hpid=z4 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 }}</ref> In April 2015, ''Rolling Stone'' fully retracted the article after the [[Columbia School of Journalism]] released a scathing and discrediting report on the "anatomy of a journalistic failure" by its author.<ref name="Somaiya April">{{cite news|last1=Somaiya|first1=Ravi|title=Rolling Stone Retracts Article on Rape at University of Virginia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-stone-retracts-article-on-rape-at-university-of-virginia.html?_r=0|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=April 5, 2015|date=April 5, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407055843/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/rolling-stone-retracts-article-on-rape-at-university-of-virginia.html?_r=0|archive-date=April 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-what-went-wrong-20150405 A Rape on Campus: What Went Wrong] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406000123/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-what-went-wrong-20150405 |date=April 6, 2015 }}, accessed April 8, 2015</ref> Even before release of the Columbia University report, the ''Rolling Stone'' story was named the "Error of the Year" by the [[Poynter Institute]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/306801/the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections-2014/ |title=The year in media errors and corrections 2014 |publisher=Poynter.org |access-date=March 14, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315015756/http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/306801/the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections-2014/ |archive-date=March 15, 2015 }}</ref> The UVA chapter of [[Phi Kappa Psi]] settled a defamation suit against ''Rolling Stone'' and received $1.65&nbsp;million.<ref>T. Rees Shapiro, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fraternity-chapter-at-u-va-to-settle-suit-against-rolling-stone-for-165-million/2017/06/13/35012b46-503d-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html Fraternity chapter at U-Va. to settle suit against Rolling Stone for $1.65 million] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829075807/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fraternity-chapter-at-u-va-to-settle-suit-against-rolling-stone-for-165-million/2017/06/13/35012b46-503d-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html |date=August 29, 2017 }}, ''Washington Post'' (June 13, 2017).</ref>

In August 2017, the night before the infamous [[Unite the Right rally]], a group of non-student and mostly non-Virginian [[White nationalism|white nationalists]] marched on the university's [[The Lawn|Lawn]] bearing torches and chanting [[Antisemitism|antisemitic]] and [[Nazism|Nazi]] slogans after the city of [[Charlottesville]] decided to remove all remaining [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] statues from the city including one depicting [[Robert E. Lee]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/white-nationalists-rally-charlottesville-virginia.html|title=White Nationalists March on University of Virginia|last1=Spencer|first1=Hawes|date=August 11, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 6, 2019|last2=Stolberg|first2=Sheryl Gay|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812060924/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/white-nationalists-rally-charlottesville-virginia.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-nationalists-march-uva-torches-article-1.3404681|title=Brawls erupt as torch-wielding white supremacists march through University of Virginia campus (VIDEO)|last=Chia|first=Jessica|website=nydailynews.com|date=August 12, 2017 |access-date=April 6, 2019|archive-date=April 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406020727/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-nationalists-march-uva-torches-article-1.3404681|url-status=live}}</ref> They were met by student counter-protesters near the statue of [[Thomas Jefferson]] in front of the Rotunda, where a fight broke out.

[[James E. Ryan (educator)|James E. Ryan]], a graduate of the [[University of Virginia School of Law]], became the university's ninth president in August 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/james-e-ryan-ninth-president-university-virginia-takes-office-today |title=James E. Ryan, Ninth President of University of Virginia, Takes Office Today |last=McCance |first=McGregor |date=August 1, 2018 |access-date=August 1, 2018 |archive-date=May 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501161047/https://news.virginia.edu/content/james-e-ryan-ninth-president-university-virginia-takes-office-today |url-status=live }}</ref> His first act upon his inauguration was to announce that in-state undergraduates from families making less than $80,000 per year would receive full scholarships covering tuition, and those from families making under $30,000 would also receive free room and board.<ref name="VAfree">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |date=2025 |title=Affording UVA |url=https://www.virginia.edu/life/affordinguva/#:~:text=UVA%20will%20cover%20the%20cost%20of%20tuition%20and%20fees%20to,with%20income%20less%20than%20%24150%2C000. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429025227/https://www.businessinsider.com/university-of-virginia-tuition-will-be-free-for-students-whose-families-earn-less-than-80000-2018-10 |archive-date=April 29, 2019 |access-date=February 16, 2025 |website=Virginia.edu}}</ref> Ryan was previously dean of the [[Harvard Graduate School of Education|Harvard School of Education]]. 

On the night of November 13, 2022, three students were killed and two others injured in [[2022 University of Virginia shooting|a shooting]] on a [[Bus#Private charter|charter bus]] that was returning to the campus from a play for a class trip in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1136423019/uva-student-shooting-charlottesville-virginia |title=3 people are dead and the gunman is at large in a University of Virginia shooting |work=NPR |date=November 14, 2022 |access-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114160032/https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1136423019/uva-student-shooting-charlottesville-virginia |url-status=live }}</ref> All three fatalities were current members of the [[Virginia Cavaliers football]] team<ref>{{cite news|first=Emily|last=Shapiro|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-virginia-mass-shooting-football-players-killed/story?id=93266643|title=University of Virginia mass shooting: What we know about the 3 football players killed|publisher=ABC News|date=November 14, 2022|accessdate=November 14, 2022|archive-date=November 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114170143/https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-virginia-mass-shooting-football-players-killed/story?id=93266643|url-status=live}}</ref> and the alleged shooter was briefly a member of the team during the 2018 season.<ref>{{Cite news |title=UVA shooting suspect is in custody; three students killed were on football team, officials say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-2-injured-shooting-university-virginia-rcna57004 |access-date=2022-11-14 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114094948/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-dead-2-injured-shooting-university-virginia-rcna57004 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2025, the [[United States Department of Justice]] called for President [[James E. Ryan (educator)|Ryan]] to resign, citing university-wide efforts to stall and misrepresent the dismantling of the University's diversity, equity and inclusion policies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Progress |first=CAROLINE KING The Daily |date=2025-06-27 |title=DOJ officials call for UVa President Jim Ryan to resign |url=https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/education/article_583e309a-41bf-5b98-b502-b97f294578cd.html |access-date=2025-06-27 |website=Richmond Times-Dispatch |language=en}}</ref> Ryan announced his resignation on June 27, 2025.<ref name="guard-27jun2025">{{cite news |title=University of Virginia president resigns under pressure from White House over DEI programs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/university-virginia-president-resigns-dei-trump |access-date=October 22, 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 27, 2025}}</ref> In October 2025, the university made a deal with the [[Second presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]], agreeing to "not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring or other activities".<ref name="guard-22oct2025">{{cite news |last1=Berger |first1=Eric |title=University of Virginia agrees to Trump administration demands over admissions and hiring |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/university-of-virginia-trump-administration-demands |access-date=October 22, 2025 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=October 22, 2025}}</ref>

On November 12, 2025, [[Virginia governor]]-elect [[Abigail Spanberger]] asked the University’s board of visitors to pause its search for a new president until she takes office, and could appoint members to the board. Governor [[Glenn Youngkin]] and conservative alumni criticized the move as political interference.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rosenzweig-Ziff |first=Dan |date=13 November 2025 |title=Youngkin rebukes Spanberger’s ask for U-Va. to pause presidential search |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/11/12/spanberger-uva-president-search/ |access-date=14 November 2025 |work=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

== Grounds ==
{{Excerpt|Grounds of the University of Virginia}}

==Organization and administration==
{{EB1911 poster|Virginia, University of|circa 1911 organization of the university}}

The university has several affiliated centers including the [[Rare Book School]], headquarters of the [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory]], [[University of Virginia Center for Politics]], Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and [[Miller Center of Public Affairs]]. The [[Fralin Museum of Art]] is dedicated to creating an environment where both the university community and the general public can study and learn from directly experiencing works of different art. The university has its own internal recruiting firm, the Executive Search Group and Strategic Resourcing. Since 2013, this department has been housed under the Office of the President.

In 2006, President Casteen announced an ambitious $3&nbsp;billion capital campaign to be completed by December 2011.<ref>{{cite news |author=Kate Colwel |title=Campaign Moves Past Difficulties |url=http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2010/08/campaign-moves-past-difficulties/ |work=Cavalier Daily |date=August 23, 2012 |access-date=June 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020201020/http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2010/08/campaign-moves-past-difficulties/ |archive-date=October 20, 2013 }}</ref> During the [[Great Recession]], President Sullivan missed the 2011 deadline, and extended it indefinitely.<ref>{{cite news |author=Wiley, Kevin |title=Oversized Check from Reality |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/05/university-virginia-falls-short-3-billion-fund-raising-goal |work=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=June 25, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021035941/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/05/university-virginia-falls-short-3-billion-fund-raising-goal |archive-date=October 21, 2013 }}</ref> The $3&nbsp;billion goal would be met a year and a half later, which President Sullivan announced at graduation ceremonies in May 2013.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lee Gardner |title=U. of Virginia Raises $3 Billion |url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/bottomline/u-of-virginia-raises-3-billion// |work=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]] |date=May 21, 2013 |access-date=June 24, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611005603/http://chronicle.com/blogs/bottomline/u-of-virginia-raises-3-billion/ |archive-date=June 11, 2013 }}</ref>

{{As of|2013}}, UVA's $1.4&nbsp;billion academic budget is paid for primarily by tuition and fees (32%), research grants (23%), endowment and gifts (19%), and sales and services (12%).<ref name="UVAbudgetRevs">[http://www.virginia.edu/finance101/answers.html Financing the University 101] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018074952/http://www.virginia.edu/finance101/answers.html |date=October 18, 2014 }}, accessed December 14, 2014</ref> The university receives 10% of its academic funds through state appropriation from the Commonwealth of Virginia.<ref name="UVAbudgetRevs" /> For the overall (including non-academic) university budget of $2.6&nbsp;billion, 45% comes from medical patient revenue.<ref name="UVAbudgetRevs" /> The Commonwealth contributes less than 6%.<ref name="UVAbudgetRevs" />

UVA's endowment is among the highest among universities in the United States.<ref name="LargestEndowments">Sarah Wood. "[https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/10-universities-with-the-biggest-endowments 15 National Universities With the Biggest Endowments] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720170959/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/10-universities-with-the-biggest-endowments|date=July 20, 2021}}". ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'', October 2, 2023. Accessed March 23, 2024.</ref> As of 2013, the University of Virginia was one of only two [[public university|public universities]] in the United States that had a [[bond credit rating|Triple-A credit rating]] from all three major credit rating agencies.<ref>[https://news.virginia.edu/content/university-virginia-receives-top-bond-rating UVA Again Receives Top Bond Ratings] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501151808/https://news.virginia.edu/content/university-virginia-receives-top-bond-rating |date=May 1, 2019 }}, accessed May 1, 2019</ref>

{| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin-left:1em; font-size:90%; line-height:1.4em; width:300px;"
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | UVA colleges and schools
|-
| '''College/school''' || '''Year founded'''
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| colspan="2" |
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| [[University of Virginia School of Architecture|School of Architecture]] || 1954
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| [[University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences|College of Arts & Sciences]] || 1824
|-
| [[University of Virginia Darden School of Business|Darden School of Business]] || 1954
|-
| [[McIntire School of Commerce]] || 1921
|-
| [[University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies|School of Continuing and Professional Studies]] || 1915
|-
| [[School of Data Science]]|| 2019
|-
| [[University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development|School of Education and Human Development]]|| 1905
|-
| [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science]] || 1836
|-
| [[University of Virginia School of Law|School of Law]] || 1819
|-
| [[Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy]] || 2007
|-
| [[University of Virginia School of Medicine|School of Medicine]] || 1819
|-
| [[University of Virginia School of Nursing|School of Nursing]] || 1901
|}

Although UVA is the flagship university of Virginia, state funding has decreased for several consecutive decades.<ref name="CDstate">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/09/university-braces-for-likely-cuts-in-state-funds|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908093211/http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/09/university-braces-for-likely-cuts-in-state-funds|title=University braces for likely cuts in state funds|archive-date=September 8, 2014|website=The Cavalier Daily – University of Virginia's Student Newspaper}}</ref> Financial support from the state dropped by half from 12 percent of total revenue in 2001–02 to six percent in 2013–14.<ref name="CDstate" /> The portion of academic revenue coming from the state fell by even more in the same period, from 22 percent to just nine percent.<ref name="CDstate" /> This nominal support from the state, contributing just $154&nbsp;million of UVA's $2.6&nbsp;billion budget in 2012–13, has led President Sullivan and others to contemplate the partial privatization of the University of Virginia.<ref name="WPpriv">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-should-break-some-ties-with-state-panel-says-in-preliminary-report/2013/09/11/e45cb586-1961-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html U-Va. should break some ties with state, panel says in preliminary report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908092526/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-should-break-some-ties-with-state-panel-says-in-preliminary-report/2013/09/11/e45cb586-1961-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story.html |date=September 8, 2014 }}, accessed September 8, 2014</ref> UVA's Darden School and Law School are already self-sufficient. [[Hunter R. Rawlings III]], President of the prominent [[Association of American Universities]] research group of universities, came to Charlottesville to make a speech to university faculty which included a statement about the proposal: "there's no possibility, as far as I can see, that any state will ever relinquish its ownership and governance of its public universities, much less of its flagship research university".<ref name="WPpriv" /> He encouraged university leaders to stop talking about privatization and instead push their state lawmakers to increase funding for higher education and research as a public good.<ref name="WPpriv" />

==Academics==
The University of Virginia offers 48 [[bachelor's degree]] programs, 94 master's degree programs, 55 [[doctorate|doctoral degree]] programs, 6 educational specialist degree programs, and 2 first-professional degrees ([[Doctor of Medicine|Medicine]] and [[Juris Doctor|Law]]). UVA does not bestow honorary degrees.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.virginia.edu/registrar/records/95gradrec/greg.html#honor | title = Chapter 4: University Regulations: Honorary Degrees | year = 1995 | access-date = May 7, 2006 | author = Rector and Visitors of The University of Virginia | publisher = Rector and Visitors of The University of Virginia | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060831033659/http://www.virginia.edu/registrar/records/95gradrec/greg.html#honor | archive-date = August 31, 2006 | df = mdy-all }} "The University of Virginia does not award honorary degrees. In conjunction with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, the University presents the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture and the Thomas Jefferson Award in Law each spring. The awards, recognizing excellence in two fields of interest to Jefferson, constitute the University's highest recognition of scholars outside the University."</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/commdegrees.html | title = No honorary degrees is an MIT tradition going back to&nbsp;... Thomas Jefferson | publisher = MIT News Office | date = June 8, 2001 | access-date = May 7, 2006 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060414025857/http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2001/commdegrees.html | archive-date = April 14, 2006 | df = mdy-all }}:"MIT's founder, William Barton Rogers, regarded the practice of giving honorary degrees as 'literary almsgiving&nbsp;... of spurious merit and noisy popularity&nbsp;... ' Rogers was a geologist from the University of Virginia who believed in Thomas Jefferson's policy barring honorary degrees at the university, which was founded in 1819."</ref><ref name="barton-mit-founding">{{cite web |url=http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/wbr-visionary/ |title=William Barton Rogers: MIT's Visionary Founder |work=Exhibits: Institute Archives & Special Collections: MIT Libraries |last1=Andrews |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Murphy |first2=Nora |last3=Rosko |first3=Tom |access-date=May 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512091317/http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/wbr-visionary/ |archive-date=May 12, 2008 }}</ref>

===Scholarships===
The [[Jefferson Scholarship]] is a competitive merit scholarship. Around 30 scholars are selected annually from a direct application pool of 4,500 nominating schools, each able to nominate only one student. Covering all tuition, books, room and board, the scholarship also provides scholars finances for summer enrichment, independent research and study abroad.

[[University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences#Echols Scholars|Echols Scholars]] (College of Arts and Sciences) and [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science#Rodman Scholars Program|Rodman Scholars]] ([[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|School of Engineering and Applied Science]]), which include 5% of undergraduate students, receive no financial benefits, but are entitled to special advisors, priority course registration, residence in designated dorms and fewer curricular constraints than other students have.<ref name="echols-benefits">{{cite web |title=History of the Echols Scholars Program |url=http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/echols/about/benefits.html |access-date= |work=University of Virginia |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227042234/http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/echols/about/benefits.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Shannon Library, UVA.jpg|right|upright=1.05|thumb|Shannon Library is home to 1.7&nbsp;million books.<ref>https://news.virginia.edu/content/alderman-doing-its-first-inventory-80-years-heres-whats-turned-so-far {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501163923/https://news.virginia.edu/content/alderman-doing-its-first-inventory-80-years-heres-whats-turned-so-far |date=May 1, 2019 }} Alderman Doing Its First Inventory in 80 Years</ref> It is one of eleven libraries at UVA, and hosts one-third of the 1.9 million visitors to the system each year as of 2018.<ref>[https://assessment.library.virginia.edu/files/2019/02/2018-Gate-Count-Sheets.pdf 2018 Gate Count at UVA Libraries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501163920/https://assessment.library.virginia.edu/files/2019/02/2018-Gate-Count-Sheets.pdf |date=May 1, 2019 }}, accessed May 1, 2019</ref>]]

Full tuition scholarships are given to each in-state student from families earning under $100,000 per year.<ref name=VAfree /> Each in-state student from families earning under $50,000 per year also receives free room and board.<ref name=VAfree /> These scholarships are initiatives of President Ryan, who announced them upon his inauguration in 2018.<ref name=VAfree />

===Research===
The University of Virginia is the first and longest serving public member of the [[Association of American Universities]] in the [[American South]], attaining membership in 1904.<ref>[https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Who-We-Are/AAU-Member-List.pdf AAU Member List] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026002609/http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476%2Four-members |date=October 26, 2014 }}, accessed December 14, 2020</ref> It is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref name="Carnegie">{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=234076 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726191941/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=234076 |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to the [[National Science Foundation]], UVA spent $614&nbsp;million on research and development in 2019, ranking it 44th in the nation and first in Virginia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Table 5. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2019 R&D expenditures |url=https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21314#general-notes |website=ncses.nsf.gov |publisher=[[National Science Foundation]] |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804134917/https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21314#general-notes |url-status=live }}</ref> Built in 1996, North Fork (formerly the UVA Research Park<ref>{{cite web |title=UVA Research Park is Now North Fork |url=https://www.discovernorthfork.com/uva-research-park-is-now-north-fork-1 |website=northfork.staged-website.com |access-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-date=March 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312051253/https://www.discovernorthfork.com/uva-research-park-is-now-north-fork-1 |url-status=live }}</ref>) is an extensive 3.7-million square foot, 562 acre [[research park]] nine miles north of UVA's North Grounds.<ref name=RPFuture>[https://www.newsadvance.com/work_it_lynchburg/news/future-looks-bright-for-uva-research-park/article_cff0d6c4-9d8f-11e3-81d0-001a4bcf6878.html Future Looks Bright for UVA Research Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204043429/https://newsadvance.com/work_it_lynchburg/news/future-looks-bright-for-uva-research-park/article_cff0d6c4-9d8f-11e3-81d0-001a4bcf6878.html |date=February 4, 2021 }}, accessed May 11, 2019</ref><ref name="ResearchPark">{{Cite web |url=https://www.discovernorthfork.com/tenant-directory |title=North Fork Tenant Directory |access-date=February 11, 2021 |archive-date=May 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515043505/https://www.discovernorthfork.com/tenant-directory |url-status=live }}</ref> It houses the UVA Applied Research Institute as well as many private R&D efforts by such firms as [[Battelle Memorial Institute|Battelle]], The MITRE Corporation, Signature Science, and CACI.<ref name=ResearchPark /><ref>[http://www.uvaari.org/site/?page_id=53 ARI @ UVA Research Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604140508/http://www.uvaari.org/site/?page_id=53 |date=June 4, 2019 }}, accessed May 11, 2019</ref>

UVA is also home to globally recognized research on [[hypersonic flight]] for NASA and other organizations.<ref name=hypersonic>[https://news.virginia.edu/content/making-hypersonic-flight-reality Making Hypersonic Flight Reality] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214221636/https://news.virginia.edu/content/making-hypersonic-flight-reality |date=February 14, 2016 }}, accessed February 17, 2016</ref> The [[United States Air Force]], National Science Foundation, and National Center for Hypersonic Combined Cycle Propulsion have each also granted UVA researchers millions in funding for the university's ongoing broad and deep research into ultra-high velocity flight.<ref name=hypersonic/> Starting in 2015, a UVA team led by mechanical engineering professor Eric Loth began Department of Energy-funded research into an original design of [[offshore wind turbine]]s that would potentially dwarf the size and scope of any being produced or researched anywhere else.<ref name=WindTurbines>[https://news.virginia.edu/content/palm-trees-inspire-uva-teams-revolutionary-design-offshore-wind-turbines Palm Trees Inspire UVA Team's Revolutionary Design of Offshore Wind Turbines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430134709/https://news.virginia.edu/content/palm-trees-inspire-uva-teams-revolutionary-design-offshore-wind-turbines |date=April 30, 2019 }}, accessed April 30, 2019</ref> The innovative design inspired by [[palm tree]]s led to Loth being named to a ''[[Popular Science]]'' list of "The Brilliant Minds Behind The New Energy Revolution".<ref name=WindTurbines /><ref>[https://www.popsci.com/new-faces-energy The Brilliant Minds Behind The New Energy Revolution: These Are The Faces of Change] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221183840/http://www.popsci.com/new-faces-energy |date=February 21, 2017 }}, accessed April 30, 2019</ref><ref>[https://www.popsci.com/eric-loth-thinks-wind Eric Loth Builds Smarter Wind Turbines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922071923/http://www.popsci.com/eric-loth-thinks-wind |date=September 22, 2017 }}, accessed April 30, 2019</ref>

UVA was recognized by ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'' as leading two of the top 10 scientific discoveries in the world in 2015.<ref name=Science2015>
[https://news.virginia.edu/content/two-uva-findings-running-years-biggest-scientific-breakthroughs Two UVA Findings in the Running for Year's Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224162812/https://news.virginia.edu/content/two-uva-findings-running-years-biggest-scientific-breakthroughs |date=February 24, 2016 }}, accessed February 17, 2016</ref> The first breakthrough was when [[University of Virginia School of Medicine|UVA School of Medicine]] researchers Jonathan Kipnis and Antoine Louveau discovered previously unknown vessels connecting the [[human brain]] directly to the [[lymphatic system]].<ref name=Science2015/> The second breakthrough was when UVA psychology professor Brian Nosek examined the reproducibility of 100 psychology studies and found fewer than half could be reproduced.<ref name=Science2015/> More than 270 researchers on five continents were involved, and twenty-two students and faculty from UVA were listed as co-authors on the scientific paper.<ref name=Science2015/>

In the field of [[astrophysics]], the university is a member of a consortium engaged in the construction and operation of the [[Large Binocular Telescope]] in the [[Mount Graham International Observatory]] of the [[Pinaleno Mountains]] of southeastern [[Arizona]]. It is also a member of both the Astrophysical Research Consortium, which operates telescopes at [[Apache Point Observatory]] in [[New Mexico]], and the [[Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy]] which operates the [[National Optical Astronomy Observatory]], the [[Gemini Observatory]] and the [[Space Telescope Science Institute]]. The University of Virginia hosts the headquarters of the [[National Radio Astronomy Observatory]], which operates the [[Green Bank Telescope]] in [[West Virginia]] and the [[Very Large Array]] radio telescope made famous in the [[Carl Sagan]] television documentary ''[[Cosmos: A Personal Voyage|Cosmos]]'' and film ''[[Contact (1997 American film)|Contact]]''. The North American [[Atacama Large Millimeter Array]] Science Center is also at the Charlottesville NRAO site. In 2019, researchers at NRAO co-authored a study documenting the discovery of a pair of giant [[hourglass]] shaped [[balloon]]s emanating [[radio wave]]s from the center of our [[Milky Way galaxy]].<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/world/giant-balloons-milky-way-center-scn/index.html Giant balloon structures found at the center of the Milky Way] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912090726/https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/world/giant-balloons-milky-way-center-scn/index.html |date=September 12, 2019 }}, accessed September 12, 2019</ref>

===Rankings===
{{Infobox US university ranking
<!-- U.S. rankings -->| Forbes = 34
| USNWR_NU = 24
| Wamo_NU = 37
| THE_WSJ = 33
| QS_W = 275
| THES_W = 163 <small>(tie)</small>
| USNWR_W = 137 <small>(tie)</small>
| ARWU_W = 201–300
}}
	
As of the 2023 rankings, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranks UVA's undergraduate programs 24th among national universities overall. Its undergraduate business school, McIntire, is ranked 4th (and 1st among public universities) in the United States by the UK-based business school website ''[[Poets & Quants]]'' as of 2023.<ref>John Byrne. ''[https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-undergraduate-business-schools-us Best undergraduate business schools in the US] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240423215416/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-undergraduate-business-schools-us |date=April 23, 2024 }}''. ''[[The Times]]'', April 28, 2023. Accessed April 23, 2024.</ref> In its (most recent as of 2024) undergraduate business school rankings of 2016, ''Bloomberg BusinessWeek'' ranked the [[McIntire School of Commerce]], UVA's undergraduate business program, 5th overall and 2nd among public universities.<ref name=BWeek>[https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-best-undergrad-business-schools/ U.S. Undergraduate Business Programs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426203140/http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-best-undergrad-business-schools/ |date=April 26, 2016 }}, accessed September 5, 2016</ref> In its 2024 ranking, ''[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg.com]]'' ranks UVA as the #3 business school in the nation and 1st among public universities.<ref>"[https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/regions/us/ Best B-Schools 2023-24] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419175001/https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/regions/us/ |date=April 19, 2020 }}". ''Bloomberg.com''. Accessed April 23, 2024.</ref>

''U.S. News & World Report'''s 2024 rankings placed its [[University of Virginia School of Law|law school]] fourth-best overall and 1st among public universities, its graduate [[Darden School of Business]] 10th nationally, the [[University of Virginia School of Medicine|medical school]] 30th overall in the "Research" category, and the [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|engineering school]] tied for 37th overall. The [[University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development|School of Education]] was ranked 8th in the nation. The specialization in special education, as well as in curriculum and instruction, were both ranked 4th in the nation.<ref name=bgs>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-virginia-main-campus-234076/overall-rankings|title=Best Graduate Schools - University of Virginia|accessdate=11 April 2024|publisher=U.S. News & World Report|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120123113/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/university-of-virginia-main-campus-234076/overall-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 2022 [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]], the School of Education was ranked 8th in the world.<ref name=bgs/>

''[[Washington Monthly]]'' ranked UVA 37th in its 2024 ranking of national universities based on its contribution to the public good, as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting good public service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020college-guide/national |title=2020 National University Rankings |magazine=Washington Monthly |date=August 28, 2020 |access-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-date=September 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901051024/https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020college-guide/national |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Other recognition===
UVA was ranked 1st by the [[Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression]] in the 2025 Free Speech College Rankings, improving from a #6 ranking in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-05 |title=UVA No. 1 in National College Free Speech Rankings |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-no-1-national-college-free-speech-rankings |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=news.virginia.edu |language=en |archive-date=December 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225192851/https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-no-1-national-college-free-speech-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stevens |first=S.T. |date=2023 |title=2024 College Free Speech Rankings: What Is the State of Free Speech on America's College Campuses? |url=https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2024-college-free-speech-rankings |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression |archive-date=December 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219054644/https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2024-college-free-speech-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Jane |date=June 4, 2021 |title=Board of Visitors 'Unequivocally Endorses' Statement on Free Expression and Inquiry |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/board-visitors-unequivocally-endorses-statement-free-expression-and-inquiry |website=UVA Today}}</ref>

The University of Virginia has also been recognized for consistently having the highest African American graduation rate among national public universities.<ref name="virginia.edu">[https://archive.today/20121211144648/http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=7920 U.Va.'s Black Graduation Rate Remains No. 1 Nationally Among Public Universities] Retrieved November 19, 2009</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120805193727/http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=393 University of Virginia Leads Public Universities with Highest African-American Graduation Rate for 12th Straight Year in 2006] Retrieved November 19, 2009</ref><ref name="jbhe.com">[http://www.jbhe.com/preview/winter07preview.html Black Student Graduation Rates – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091209064340/http://www.jbhe.com/preview/winter07preview.html |date=December 9, 2009 }} Retrieved November 19, 2009</ref> According to the Fall 2005 issue of ''Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', UVA "has the highest [[African American|black]] student graduation rate of the [[Public Ivy|Public Ivies]]" and "by far the most impressive is the University of Virginia with its high black student graduation rate and its small racial difference in graduation rates."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/49_blackenrollment_publicivies.html|title=''Comparing Black Enrollments at the Public Ivies''. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. 2005|access-date=November 26, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109151226/http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/49_blackenrollment_publicivies.html|archive-date=November 9, 2014}}</ref>

===Undergraduate admissions and financial aid===
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For the undergraduate Class of 2027, the University of Virginia received a record 56,439 applications, admitting 16.2 percent.<ref name=Class27>Thomas Baxter. "[https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/03/regular-decision-brings-overall-u-va-acceptance-rate-to-16-percent Regular decision brings overall U.Va. acceptance rate to 16 percent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203215540/https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/03/regular-decision-brings-overall-u-va-acceptance-rate-to-16-percent |date=December 3, 2023 }}." ''[[The Cavalier Daily]]'', March 23, 2023. Accessed November 29, 2023.</ref> The early action acceptance rate was 27 percent for in-state Virginians and 12 percent for out-of-state applicants.<ref name=Class27EA>Merrill Hart. "[https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/02/16-percent-of-early-action-applicants-gain-admission-to-u-va 16 percent of early action applicants gain admission to U.Va.]", February 13, 2023. Accessed November 29, 2023.</ref> The regular decision acceptance rate was 13 percent for in-state Virginians and 8 percent for out-of-state applicants.<ref name=Class27 /> UVA is required, by Virginia state law, to matriculate two-thirds of its undergraduate student body from its pool of in-state applicants;<ref name=2019div>{{cite web |url=https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/uva/uva-admission-offers-reflect-growing-diversity/article_fa707306-4f63-11e9-8db6-4bdd83c3baef.html |title=UVa admission offers reflect growing diversity |website=www.dailyprogress.com |date=March 25, 2019 |access-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426182113/https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/uva/uva-admission-offers-reflect-growing-diversity/article_fa707306-4f63-11e9-8db6-4bdd83c3baef.html |url-status=live }}</ref> it is barred, by Virginia state law, from giving admissions preference to the children of its alumni.<ref>Janet W. Lee. "[https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1237630465/virginia-legacy-admissions-college Virginia has banned legacy admissions at its public colleges] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325161658/https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1237630465/virginia-legacy-admissions-college |date=March 25, 2024 }}". [[NPR]], March 11, 2024. Accessed March 25, 2024.</ref> Approximately 40 percent of those admitted to UVA are non-white.<ref name=2019div /> Matriculated students come from all 50 states and 147 foreign countries.<ref name="iaas">{{cite web |url=http://www.virginia.edu/Facts/Glance_Enrollment.html |title=Current On-Grounds Enrollment |access-date=September 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903212245/http://www.virginia.edu/Facts/Glance_Enrollment.html |archive-date=September 3, 2014}}</ref><ref name="CavAdmissionsHandbook" /> The university has seen steady increases to its applicant pool in recent decades, and the number of applications has more than tripled since the Class of 2008 received 15,094 applications.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2004/admission-march-31-2004.html| title = Online Applications Speed Admissions Process University Of Virginia Receives More Than 15,000 Applications, Extends Offers To 4,724 Students For Class Of 2008| access-date = August 31, 2014| date = March 31, 2004| publisher = University of Virginia News Office| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140904210052/http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2004/admission-march-31-2004.html| archive-date = September 4, 2014| df = mdy-all}}</ref> Admission to the university is among the most [[College admissions in the United States|selective]] in the United States among public universities.<ref name="MostSelectivePublics">Josh Moody. "[https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2019-09-19/20-public-schools-with-low-acceptance-rates 20 Public Schools With Low Acceptance Rates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323180037/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2019-09-19/20-public-schools-with-low-acceptance-rates|date=March 23, 2024}}". ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'', September 19, 2019. Accessed March 23, 2024.</ref> As of 2014, 93 percent of admitted applicants ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.<ref name="CavAdmissionsHandbook">{{cite web| url = http://uvaclubs.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CAVALIER-ADMISSIONS-VOLUNTEER-HANDBOOK.pdf| title = Cavalier Admissions Volunteer Handbook| access-date = August 31, 2014| date = 2013| publisher = Office of Engagement, University of Virginia| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140903093528/http://uvaclubs.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/CAVALIER-ADMISSIONS-VOLUNTEER-HANDBOOK.pdf| archive-date = September 3, 2014| df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="uva-2014stats">{{cite web |url=http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2014/03/unofficial-2013-2014-admission.html |title=U.Va. Unofficial Admissions Statistics, 2013–14 |work=UVa Admissions Office |date=March 31, 2014 |access-date=August 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905044224/http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2014/03/unofficial-2013-2014-admission.html |archive-date=September 5, 2014 }}</ref> For the Class of 2027, some 1,167 students were accepted after having had their application fees waived as either low-income or first-generation college students.<ref name=Class27 />

Admission is [[need-blind]] for domestic applicants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.virginia.edu/life/affordinguva|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108111336/http://www.virginia.edu/life/affordinguva|url-status=dead|title=Affording UVA &#124; The University of Virginia|date=December 9, 2015|archivedate=November 8, 2018|website=www.virginia.edu}}</ref> President [[James E. Ryan (educator)|James Ryan]] announced at his inauguration in fall 2018 that in-state students from families earning less than $80,000 a year will receive full tuition scholarships.<ref name=VAfree /> Those from families earning less than $30,000 will also receive free room and board.<ref name=VAfree /> The university already met 100 percent of demonstrated need for all admitted undergraduate students, making it one of only two public universities in the U.S. to reach this level of financial aid for its students.<ref name="AccessUVa">[http://accessuva.virginia.edu/questions-answers AccessUVa Questions & Answers] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904204235/http://accessuva.virginia.edu/questions-answers |date=September 4, 2014 }}, retrieved September 4, 2014</ref><ref>[http://www.kiplinger.com/article/college/T014-C000-S002-best-values-in-public-colleges-2013.html Best Values in Public Colleges] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823060722/http://www.kiplinger.com/article/college/T014-C000-S002-best-values-in-public-colleges-2013.html |date=August 23, 2014 }}, accessed September 8, 2014</ref> For 2014, the university ranked fourth overall by the ''[[Princeton Review]]'' for "Great Financial Aid".<ref>[http://www.princetonreview.com/UniversityofVirginia.aspx Princeton Review page on University of Virginia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904210701/http://www.princetonreview.com/UniversityofVirginia.aspx |date=September 4, 2014 }}, accessed August 31, 2014</ref> In 2008 the Center for College Affordability and Productivity named UVA the top value among all national public colleges and universities; and in 2009, UVA was again named the "No. 1 Best Value" among public universities in the United States in a separate ranking by ''[[USA TODAY]]'' and the ''Princeton Review.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=34575&CHID=36|title=DNRonline|access-date=June 29, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720180731/http://www.dailynews-record.com/opinion_details.php?AID=34575&CHID=36|archive-date=July 20, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.princetonreview.com/best-value-colleges.aspx | title=Princeton Review's 2009 Best Value Colleges | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718194342/http://www.princetonreview.com/best-value-colleges.aspx | archive-date=July 18, 2013 | df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/best-value-colleges.htm | work=USA Today | title=Best Value Colleges for 2010 and how they were chosen | date=January 12, 2010 | access-date=May 27, 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522020646/http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/best-value-colleges.htm | archive-date=May 22, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> ''[[Kiplinger]]'' in 2014 ranked UVA second out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/index.php |publisher=[[Kiplinger]] |title=Kiplinger's Best College Values |date=March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218160250/http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-public-colleges/index.php |archive-date=December 18, 2016 }}</ref>

Graduate and professional school admissions are also highly selective. As of 2024, the average [[Law School Admissions Test|LSAT]] score was 172 at the [[University of Virginia School of Law|School of Law]], while at the [[Darden School of Business]] the average [[Graduate Management Admissions Test|GMAT]] score was 718.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.law.virginia.edu/admissions/class-2027-profile |publisher=UVA |title=Class of 2027 Profile |date=August 21, 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile |publisher=UVA |title=Class Profile |date=August 2024 |access-date=March 17, 2025 |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318043502/https://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Student life==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2023<ref>{{cite web |title= College Scorecard: University of Virginia-Main Campus|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school?234076-University-of-Virginia-Main-Campus|website=College Scorecard |publisher=[[United States Department of Education]] |access-date=September 1, 2025}}</ref>
|-
! Race and ethnicity
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|50|%|2||background:cyan}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|19|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|8|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|7|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races]]
|align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:violet}}
|-
| [[International student]]
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:#008080}}
|-
| Unknown
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:grey}} 
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|14|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|86|%|2||background:black}}
|}
Student life at the University of Virginia is marked by a number of unique traditions. The campus of the university is referred to as the "Grounds". Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors are instead called first-, second-, third-, and fourth-years to reflect Jefferson's belief that learning is a lifelong process, rather than one to be completed within four years.

[[File:William Faulkner 1954 (2) (photo by Carl van Vechten).jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|[[William Faulkner]] once lived among the students of UVA after winning the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], and bequeathed most of his papers to Shannon Library.]]

===Student-faculty interaction and connections===
Professors are traditionally addressed as "Mr." or "Ms." at UVA instead of "Doctor" (although medical doctors are the one exception) in deference to Jefferson's desire to have an equality of ideas.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Students & Traditions {{!}} Student Affairs |url=https://studentaffairs.virginia.edu/about/students-traditions |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=studentaffairs.virginia.edu}}</ref>

First-year students in the College of Arts & Sciences have the opportunity to take four Engagements, two per semester, with the goal of students expanding their thinking.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Engagements |url=https://gened.as.virginia.edu/engagements |access-date=2025-10-07 |website=General Education |language=en}}</ref> 

Select faculty live at [[Brown College at Monroe Hill]], [[Hereford College]], [[International Residential College]], and in Pavilions on [[the Lawn]]. This living arrangement gives more opportunities for professors to invite students to lunches and dinners, which regularly happens, and creates chances for impromptu meetings and interactions between faculty and students around Grounds.

Reflecting this close student-faculty interaction at UVA, it welcomed Nobel Laureate [[William Faulkner]] to a position as "Writer-in-Residence" in 1957.<ref name=Blotner>Joseph Blotner and Frederick L. Gwynn, (eds.) (1959) ''Faulkner in the University: Conferences at the University of Virginia, 1957–1958''.</ref> He had no teaching responsibilities, and was paid merely to live among the students and write. He was badly injured in a horse riding accident in 1959, and did not return to the state before his death in 1962.<ref name=Blotner /> Faulkner then bequeathed the majority of his papers to Shannon Library, giving UVA the largest Faulkner archives in the world.<ref>[http://uvamagazine.org/articles/faulkner_revisited Faulkner, Revisited] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616201223/http://uvamagazine.org/articles/faulkner_revisited |date=June 16, 2017 }}, accessed June 6, 2017</ref>

===Global citizenship initiatives===

UVA was previously the academic sponsor for [[Semester at Sea]], a multi-country study abroad program conducted on a cruise ship.

The University of Virginia received the 2015 Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization, by the Association of International Educators.<ref name="Simon">[http://as.virginia.edu/news/why-globalize-education-president-sullivan-says-benefits-are-far-reaching President Sullivan Says Benefits of UVA's Globalization Are Far Reaching] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302032919/http://as.virginia.edu/news/why-globalize-education-president-sullivan-says-benefits-are-far-reaching |date=March 2, 2016 }}, accessed February 19, 2016</ref> This award confirms the university's success and commitment in educating its students on a global scale as well as nationally.<ref name="Simon" />

===Student leadership opportunities===
There are a number of UVA undergraduate leadership opportunities that are offered in addition to the standard student government or fraternity and sorority positions found at many other universities. They include UVA's [[#Secret societies|secret societies and debating societies]], the [[#Honor system|student-run honor committees]], and the chance to be recognized as a fourth-year student at the pinnacle of student leadership by being asked to live on [[the Lawn]].

The [[Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy]], established in 2007, expands on these unique student leadership opportunities to study Leadership itself as a cross-disciplinary subject of focus and is closely aligned with many of the university's schools, including the [[University of Virginia School of Architecture|Architecture]], [[Curry School of Education|Education]], [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science|Engineering]], [[University of Virginia School of Law|Law]], [[University of Virginia School of Medicine|Medical]], and [[Darden Graduate School of Business Administration|Darden]] schools, as well as with programs in politics, economics, and applied ethics.

The University of Virginia has a long history of student activists who formed radical environmental, religious, and political groups to champion various social changes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03897.xml%3Bquery%3D|title=A Guide to the Social Movements Collection, ca. 1959–1989, 2000, and n.d. Social Movements Collection 9430-f|website=ead.lib.virginia.edu|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001045813/http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc%2Fviu03897.xml%3Bquery%3D|url-status=live}}</ref> An especially intense period of student activism occurred in the 1970s during the May Days strikes against the Vietnam War.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uvamagazine.org/articles/antiwar_stories|title=Antiwar Stories: May Days, 1970: The week that would change UVA forever|website=Virginia Magazine|language=en|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=February 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228165103/https://uvamagazine.org/articles/antiwar_stories|url-status=live}}</ref> More recently, the [[University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development|School of Education and Human Development]] and its Youth-Nex Center held a national conference in 2019 to promote student activism at UVA and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Conference-Held-at-UVA-to-Support-Student-Activism-564818771.html|title=Conference Held at UVA to Support Student Activism|last=Kempler|first=Carly|website=www.wdbj7.com|date=November 12, 2019 |language=en|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=February 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228165059/https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Conference-Held-at-UVA-to-Support-Student-Activism-564818771.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Secret societies===
{{Main|Secret Societies at the University of Virginia}}

[[File:IMPsecretsociety.jpg|thumb|right|The mark of [[IMP Society|one]] out of [[Secret societies at the University of Virginia|many]] secret societies active on Grounds at the university]]

Student societies have existed on Grounds since the early twentieth century. Secret societies have been a part of University of Virginia student life since the first class of students in 1825. While the number of societies peaked during the 75-year period between 1875 and 1950, there are still six societies active that are over 100 years old, and several newer secret societies.

===Honor system===
{{Main|Honor system at the University of Virginia}}

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 |title = Honor Pledge<ref>[http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/shorthistory/code.html The Code of Honor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118221358/http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/shorthistory/code.html |date=January 18, 2015 }}, accessed December 15, 2014</ref>
 |quote = On my honor, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment.}}

The nation's first codified honor system was instituted by UVA law professor [[Henry St. George Tucker, Sr.]] in 1842, after a fellow professor was shot to death on [[the Lawn]]. There are three tenets to the system: students simply must not [[lie]], [[cheating|cheat]], or [[theft|steal]]. For its first 180 years it was a "single sanction system", meaning that committing any of these three offenses would result in immediate expulsion from the university. In the spring of 2022, following decades of criticism and waning support, a proposal to replace the penalty of expulsion with a two-semester suspension passed a student referendum with over 80% of the vote and took effect immediately.

The honor system is intended to be student-run and student-administered.<ref>{{cite web | title = The Honor Committee | publisher = University of Virginia | url = http://www.virginia.edu/honor/ | date = December 11, 2006 | access-date = January 9, 2007 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061013105720/http://www.virginia.edu/honor/ | archive-date = October 13, 2006 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> If accused, students are tried before their peers—fellow students, never faculty, serve as counsel and jury. Although Honor Committee resources have been strained by mass cheating scandals such as a case in 2001 of 122 suspected cheaters over several years in a single large Physics survey course, and federal lawsuits have challenged the system, its verdicts are rarely overturned.<ref>{{cite news |author=Greta von Susteren |title=University of Virginia Tackles Cheating Head On |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/10/bp.00.html |work=[[CNN]] |date=May 10, 2001 |access-date=November 13, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127181118/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/10/bp.00.html |archive-date=November 27, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Meg Scheu|title=Judge Denies Call to Dismiss Lawsuit|url=http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/1999/07/judge-denies-call-to-dismiss-lawsuit|work=[[Cavalier Daily]]|date=June 22, 1999|access-date=November 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505025911/http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/1999/07/judge-denies-call-to-dismiss-lawsuit|archive-date=May 5, 2015}}</ref><ref>In 1983 the Fourth Circuit rejected a challenge brought by an expelled law student, the [http://openjurist.org/719/f2d/69/henson-v-honor-committee-of-u-va-u Henson case] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020150/http://openjurist.org/719/f2d/69/henson-v-honor-committee-of-u-va-u |date=November 25, 2014 }}, concluding U VA's student-run honor system afforded sufficient due process to pass constitutional scrutiny.</ref> There is only one documented case of direct UVA administration interference in an honor system proceeding: the trial and subsequent retrial of student Christopher Leggett.<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert O' Harrow Jr. |title=Honor Case Causes Uproar at U-Va.; Some Angry Over Official Intervention, Student Panel's Unusual Reversal of Decision |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-905552.html |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=August 8, 1994 |access-date=November 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329042444/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-905552.html |archive-date=March 29, 2015 }}</ref>

===Student activities===
Many events take place at the University of Virginia, [[Events Held on The Lawn at UVA|on the Lawn]] and across Grounds. One of the largest events at UVA is Springfest, hosted by the University Programs Council. It takes place every year in the spring, and features a large free concert, various inflatables, games. Another popular event and tradition is Lighting of the Lawn in the winter. Established in 2001 as a tribute to the [[September 11 attacks]], Lighting of the Lawn consists of a light and music show on the Lawn. Another popular event is [[Foxfield Races|Foxfield]], a [[Steeplechase (horse racing)|steeplechase]] and social gathering that takes place nearby in [[Albemarle County]] in April, and which is annually attended by thousands of students from the University of Virginia, neighboring colleges, and local residents.<ref name="foxfield">{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/24000_plus_descend_on_foxfield_for_annual_steeplechase_social_gathering/20967/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915145603/http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/24000_plus_descend_on_foxfield_for_annual_steeplechase_social_gathering/20967/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 15, 2008 |work=Daily Progress |location=Charlottesville |date=April 27, 2008 |last=Borden |first=Jeremy |title=24,000-plus descend on Foxfield for annual steeplechase, social gathering }}</ref>

[[File:University of Virginia Amphitheater.jpg|right|upright=1.25|thumb|The University Amphitheater is often used for outdoor lectures and student gatherings.]]

The student life building is called Newcomb Hall. It is home to the Student Activities Center (SAC) and the Media Activities Center (MAC), where student groups can get leadership consulting and use computing and copying resources. It also features several meeting rooms for student groups. Student Council, the student self-governing body, holds meetings Tuesdays at 6:30&nbsp;p.m. in the Newcomb South Meeting Room. Student Council, or "StudCo", also holds office hours and regular committee meetings in the newly renovated Newcomb Programs and Council (PAC) Room. The PAC also houses the University Programs Council and Class Councils. Newcomb basement is home to both the office of the independent student newspaper ''The Declaration'', ''[[The Cavalier Daily]]'', and the Consortium of University Publications.

In 2005, the university was named "Hottest for Fitness" by ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine,<ref>{{cite magazine | title = America's 25 Hot Schools | magazine = [[Newsweek]] | date = August 2004 | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5626574/site/newsweek/ | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070903110639/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5626574/site/newsweek/ | archive-date = September 3, 2007 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> due in part to 94% of its students using one of the four indoor athletics facilities. Particularly popular is the Aquatics and Fitness Center, across the street from the Alderman Dorms. The University of Virginia sent more workers to the [[Peace Corps]] in 2006<ref name="Peace Corps1">{{cite web| url = http://www.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2006.pdf| title = Peace Corps – Top Producing Colleges and Universities| access-date = December 8, 2006| publisher = [[Peace Corps]]| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080227132115/http://www.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2006.pdf| archive-date = February 27, 2008| df = mdy-all}}</ref> and 2008<ref name="Peace Corps2">{{cite web| url = http://www.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2008.pdf| title = Peace Corps – Top Producing Colleges and Universities| access-date = January 16, 2009| publisher = [[Peace Corps]]| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090115041744/http://www.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/stats/schools2008.pdf| archive-date = January 15, 2009| df = mdy-all}}</ref> than any other "medium-sized" university in the United States. Volunteerism at the university is centered around Madison House which offers numerous opportunities to serve others. Among the numerous programs offered are tutoring, housing improvement, an organization called Hoos Against Hunger, which gives leftover food from restaurants to the homeless of Charlottesville rather than allowing it to be discarded, among numerous other volunteer programs. Many students also choose to volunteer as emergency responders, the most common stations being Charlottesville Albemarle Rescue Squad (CARS) in the city of Charlottesville and Seminole Trail Volunteer Fire Department (STVFD) in Albemarle County.<ref name="HoosGiveBack">{{cite web| url = https://news.virginia.edu/content/local-emergency-services-attract-students-who-want-give-back| title = Local Emergency Students Attract Students Who Want to Give Back| date = August 31, 2021| access-date = January 28, 2024| archive-date = January 28, 2024| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240128171539/https://news.virginia.edu/content/local-emergency-services-attract-students-who-want-give-back| url-status = live}}</ref>

As at many universities, alcohol use is a part of the social life of many undergraduate students. In 2005, concerns particularly arose about fourth-years consuming excessive alcohol during the day of the last home football game.<ref name="4thYear5th">{{cite web| url = http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2005/12/01/coverHighSpiritsWahoosTack.html| title = High spirits: Wahoos tackle fourth-year fifth| access-date = December 11, 2006| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060627121634/http://readthehook.com/stories/2005/12/01/coverHighSpiritsWahoosTack.html| archive-date = June 27, 2006| df = mdy-all}}</ref> President Casteen then announced a $2.5&nbsp;million donation from [[Anheuser-Busch]] to fund a new UVA-based Social Norms Institute in September 2006.<ref name="SocialNorms">{{cite web| url = http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2006/09/28/NEWS-socialnorms-A.doc.aspx| title = Busch league: UVA gets big bucks to ban binging| access-date = December 11, 2006| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930202123/http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2006/09/28/NEWS-socialnorms-A.doc.aspx| archive-date = September 30, 2007| df = mdy-all}}</ref> A spokesman said: "the goal is to get students to emulate the positive behavior of the vast majority of students". On the other hand, the university was ranked first in ''[[Playboy]]''{{'}}s 2012 list of Top 10 Party Schools based on ratings of sex, sports, and [[nightlife]].<ref>{{cite magazine| url = http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/top-10-party-schools| title = Top 10 Party Schools| access-date = September 26, 2012| magazine = [[Playboy]]| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120927031710/http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/top-10-party-schools| archive-date = September 27, 2012| df = mdy-all}}</ref>

===Fraternities and sororities===
{{Main|Fraternities and sororities at University of Virginia}}

The University of Virginia has a number of [[fraternities and sororities]] on campus, encompassing the traditional social fraternities and sororities as well as coeducational [[Professional fraternities and sororities|professional]], [[Service fraternities and sororities|service]], and [[Honor societies#List of scholastic examples|honor fraternities]]. Social life at the university was originally dominated by debating societies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Patton|first=John|title=Jefferson, Cabell, and the University of Virginia|publisher=Neale Publishing Company|location=New York, NY |page=[https://archive.org/details/jeffersoncabell01pattgoog/page/n250 235] |url = https://archive.org/details/jeffersoncabell01pattgoog |quote=edgar mason.|year=1906}}</ref> The first fraternity chapter founded at UVA was [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] in 1852, and it was quickly followed by many more; the University of Virginia was the birthplace of two national fraternities, [[Kappa Sigma]] and [[Pi Kappa Alpha]], which exist at the university as of 2023.<ref name="dabney cw">{{cite book|last=Dabney|first=Virginius |title = Mr. Jefferson's University: A History |year=1981|publisher=University of Virginia Press|location=Charlottesville, VA |page = 20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301|title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities |year=1920 |access-date=June 29, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013434/https://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301 |title=Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities |year=1920 |access-date=June 29, 2015 |url-status=live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013434/https://books.google.com/books?id=2iErAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA301 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 }}</ref>

Through the twentieth century, the roles of these organizations on campus expanded to encompass social sororities, professional fraternities and sororities, service fraternities, honor societies, black fraternities and sororities, and multicultural fraternities and sororities. Roughly 30% of the student body are members of social fraternities and sororities, while additional students are involved with service, professional, and honor fraternities.<ref name="fsl brochure">{{cite web |title=Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of Virginia, 2014–2015 |url = http://www.virginia.edu/fsl/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-2014-2015-FSL-Brochure.pdf |publisher=University of Virginia Office of the Dean of Students |access-date=April 30, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150623003150/http://www.virginia.edu/fsl/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-2014-2015-FSL-Brochure.pdf |archive-date=June 23, 2015 }}</ref> [[Fraternities and sororities in North America#Joining|"Rush and pledging"]] occur in the spring semester for most Greek organizations. Kappa Sigma and the [[University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science#Trigon Engineering Society|Trigon Engineering Society]] hold reserved rooms on the Lawn, while Pi Kappa Alpha holds the only undergraduate room on the Range.<ref name="Lawn rooms">{{cite web |title=Lawn Application: Application FAQs |url = http://www.virginia.edu/deanofstudents/lawnapplication/applicationfaqs.html |access-date=May 1, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150414005532/http://www.virginia.edu/deanofstudents/lawnapplication/applicationfaqs.html |archive-date=April 14, 2015 }}</ref>

===Transportation===
[[File:Northline Express (NLX) bus of the University Transit Service of the University of Virginia - IMG 20190410 091527.jpg|thumb|Northline Express (NLX) bus of the University Transit Service, with signage celebrating [[2019 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game|victory]] at the [[2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2019 NCAA tournament championship]] ([[March Madness]])]]

A set of bus lines operated by the university's University Transit Service connect different parts of the UVA Grounds with adjacent parking facilities. This is complemented by a set of bus lines operated by [[Charlottesville Area Transit]] that connect the University of Virginia with other parts of Charlottesville. The [[Virginia Department of Transportation]] maintains the roads through the university grounds as [[State Route 302 (Virginia)|State Route 302]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf |title=Virginia Route Index |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701135847/http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf |archive-date=July 1, 2015 }}&nbsp;{{small|(239&nbsp;KB)}}, revised July 1, 2003</ref>

[[Charlottesville Union Station]] is just {{convert|0.6|miles|km}} from UVA, and from there [[Amtrak]] passenger trains serve Charlottesville on three routes: the [[Cardinal (train)|''Cardinal'']] (Chicago to New York City), [[Crescent (Amtrak)|''Crescent'']] ([[New Orleans]] to New York City), and ''[[Northeast Regional]]'' ([[Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]] to [[Boston]]). The long-haul ''Cardinal'' operates three times a week, while the ''Crescent'' and ''Northeast Regional'' both run daily. [[Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport]], {{convert|8|miles|km}} away, has nonstop flights to Chicago, New York, [[Atlanta]], [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]], and [[Philadelphia]]. The larger [[Richmond International Airport]] is {{convert|77|miles|km}} to the southeast, and the still larger [[Dulles International Airport]] is {{convert|99|miles|km}} to the northeast. They are accessible via [[Interstate 64 in Virginia|Interstate 64]] and [[U.S. Route 29 in Virginia|U.S. 29]], respectively, both of which are major highways and frequently trafficked.

[[Megabus (North America)|Megabus]] began serving Charlottesville with inexpensive direct express routes to and from Washington, D.C. in 2018.<ref>[https://www.nbc29.com/story/39251023/megabus-to-begin-express-service-from-charlottesville-to-dc Megabus to Begin Express Service from Charlottesville to D.C.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426215424/https://www.nbc29.com/story/39251023/megabus-to-begin-express-service-from-charlottesville-to-dc |date=April 26, 2019 }}, accessed April 26, 2019</ref> Megabus also runs up to four trips per day from Charlottesville to New York City with several stops between.<ref name=MegaNY>[https://us.megabus.com/route-guides/charlottesville-to-new-york-bus Charlottesville to NY Megabus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427151042/https://us.megabus.com/route-guides/charlottesville-to-new-york-bus |date=April 27, 2019 }}, accessed April 27, 2019</ref> Like the trains, the Megabus stop is at the nearby Amtrak station.<ref name=MegaNY />

==Athletics==
{{main|Virginia Cavaliers}}

Virginia has ranked near the top of collegiate athletics programs in recent years. In 2015 and 2019, UVA won the nationwide [[Capital One Cup (college sports)#Champions|Capital One Cup]] for overall men's sports excellence.<ref name="19Cup">[https://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/cavalierinsider/uva-men-win-capital-one-cup/article_21c8f878-8f78-5b1e-9bec-b92ffb4d8256.html Virginia Men Win Capital One Cup] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711185736/https://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/cavalierinsider/uva-men-win-capital-one-cup/article_21c8f878-8f78-5b1e-9bec-b92ffb4d8256.html|date=July 11, 2019}}, accessed July 11, 2019</ref> The teams and athletes representing Virginia in [[college athletics]] have been dubbed the ''Cavaliers'' [[Virginia Cavaliers#Fight song|since 1923]], predating the NBA's [[Cleveland Cavaliers]] by nearly half a century.

In 2019, [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball|Virginia men's basketball]] won the NCAA Championship in [[March Madness]], the single-elimination national [[college basketball]] tournament considered by ''[[YouGov]]'' polled American viewers (as of the same year) to be the most exciting collegiate sporting event.<ref>[https://www.newsweek.com/final-four-ncaa-march-madness-super-bowl-nba-finals-1385983 March Madness 2019: Where Does the NCAA Final Four Rank in America's Favorite Sporting Events?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428132855/https://www.newsweek.com/final-four-ncaa-march-madness-super-bowl-nba-finals-1385983 |date=April 28, 2019 }}, accessed April 28, 2019</ref><ref>[https://today.yougov.com/topics/sports/articles-reports/2019/04/01/march-madness-final-four-exciting-event Americans say March Madness Final Four is one of top three most exciting sports events of the year] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428133707/https://today.yougov.com/topics/sports/articles-reports/2019/04/01/march-madness-final-four-exciting-event |date=April 28, 2019 }}, accessed April 28, 2019</ref> In 2015, when Virginia first won its first Capital One Cup its teams won the [[2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship|2014 College Cup]], the [[2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament#Bracket|2015 College World Series]], and the [[2015 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships|2015 NCAA Tennis Championships]]. When it repeated the feat in 2019, the program won both the March Madness tournament and the [[2019 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship|2019 Men's Lacrosse Championship]].

Virginia's athletics director is Carla Williams, the first African American woman to hold the position at any [[power conference]] university. The previous athletics director was [[Craig Littlepage]], the first African American to have that title in the ACC. He held the position for sixteen years and, under his leadership, UVA added many significant hires who have demonstrated success near the top of their respective sports, including recent NCAA Champions [[Tony Bennett (basketball)|Tony Bennett]], [[Lars Tiffany]], [[Brian O'Connor (baseball coach)|Brian O'Connor]], and Todd DeSorbo, as well as former football coach [[Bronco Mendenhall]]. Among coaches who have longer tenures, [[George Gelnovatch]] has won two NCAA men's soccer national titles since 2009. Steve Swanson has led women's soccer teams to six ACC titles and 24 consecutive winning seasons. Kevin Sauer has led UVA women's rowing to two NCAA titles since 2010.

[[File:Virginia-UVA-Johns-Hopkins-lacrosse.jpg|thumb|right|UVA lacrosse has won 11 national championships, including nine national titles since NCAA oversight began.]]

===Championships===
In the 21st century alone, UVA teams have won 22 NCAA championships. The men's teams have won NCAA titles in basketball (2019); lacrosse (2003, 2006, 2011, 2019, and 2021); baseball (2015); soccer (2009 and 2014); and tennis (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, and 2023). UVA women have won recent NCAA titles in rowing (2010 and 2012) and swimming & diving (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025). The Cavaliers rank [[Atlantic Coast Conference#NCAA team championships|first in the ACC]] (a [[power conference]]) with 23 men's NCAA Championships, and rank second in the conference with 11 women's NCAA Championships.

Under [[Tony Bennett (basketball)|Tony Bennett]] the [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball|Cavaliers]] have experienced a basketball renaissance, winning the [[2019 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament#Final Four|2019 NCAA Championship]], winning the [[ACC men's basketball tournament|ACC tournaments]] of 2014 (over Duke) and 2018 (over North Carolina), and winning regular-season championships in 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019. UVA became the third program in ACC history to win 30 or more games in consecutive seasons and [[John Paul Jones Arena]] is considered one of the more intimidating trips for opposing teams to make. The women's basketball program fell just short of its own NCAA Championship in 1990, losing the Championship Game in overtime.

The [[Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse|Virginia men's]] and [[Virginia Cavaliers women's lacrosse|women's lacrosse]] programs are two of the most dominant in the history of the sport, winning ten of UVA's twenty-nine NCAA Championships between them and two more (for a total of 11 recognized national championships) before NCAA oversight began. 2019 and 2021 NCAA champion men's head coach [[Lars Tiffany]] has brought UVA back to prominence after [[Dom Starsia]] retired as the all-time ACC leader in men's lacrosse wins. All three UVA head coaches in the position prior to Tiffany still rank (as of 2019) in [[List of college men's lacrosse coaches with 250 wins|the top 20]] of career wins. Three-time NCAA champion head coach Julie Myers leads women's lacrosse and under her guidance, Virginia is the only program to qualify for 24 straight NCAA tournament berths as of 2019.<ref>[https://virginiasports.com/coaches.aspx?rc=2564&path=wlax Julie Myers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017041618/https://virginiasports.com/coach/julie-myers/ |date=October 17, 2022 }}, accessed May 15, 2019</ref>

The [[Virginia Cavaliers baseball|Cavalier baseball]] team under [[Brian O'Connor (baseball coach)|Brian O'Connor]] has also experienced tremendous success. UVA finished as national runners-up in the [[2014 College World Series]] and came back to win the [[2015 College World Series]]. Virginia has hosted five NCAA Super Regional tournament events at [[Davenport Field at Disharoon Park|Davenport Field]].

The [[Virginia Cavaliers men's tennis|UVA men's tennis]] program won "three-peat" NCAA Championships in 2015–2017 after winning the Cavaliers' first in 2013. The team won back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023. The program has regularly featured international talent combined with locally grown high school tennis talent from Virginia (often [[Northern Virginia]]).<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/nova-tennis-stars-may-be-americas-future-hope/2011/05/09/AFBmXSeG_blog.html NoVA Tennis Stars May Be America's Future Hope] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820114155/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/nova-tennis-stars-may-be-americas-future-hope/2011/05/09/AFBmXSeG_blog.html |date=August 20, 2020 }}, accessed May 15, 2019</ref>

The University of Virginia women's cross country team won the 1981 and 1982 [[NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship]] as well as the DI Indoor Championships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mi.milesplit.com/meets/179715-ncaa-di-indoor-championships/results/312967/raw|title=NCAA DI Indoor Championships – Results (Raw)|website=MileSplit Michigan|access-date=July 26, 2020|archive-date=July 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727075846/https://mi.milesplit.com/meets/179715-ncaa-di-indoor-championships/results/312967/raw|url-status=live}}</ref>

The women's [[Virginia Cavaliers swimming and diving|swimming and diving]] team won its first NCAA Championship in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 20, 2021|title=Virginia Wins 2021 NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship|url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2021/03/20/virginia-wins-2021-ncaa-womens-swimming-diving-championship/|access-date=March 23, 2021|website=Virginia Sports|archive-date=March 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323100114/https://virginiasports.com/news/2021/03/20/virginia-wins-2021-ncaa-womens-swimming-diving-championship/|url-status=live}}</ref> The women repeated the feat in both 2022<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 19, 2022|title=Virginia Wins Second Consecutive NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship|url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2022/03/19/virginia-wins-second-consecutive-ncaa-womens-swimming-diving-championship/|access-date=May 22, 2023|archive-date=May 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522154425/https://virginiasports.com/news/2022/03/19/virginia-wins-second-consecutive-ncaa-womens-swimming-diving-championship/|url-status=live}}</ref> and 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 19, 2023|title=Virginia Wins Third Straight NCAA Women's Swimming & Diving Championship|url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2023/03/19/virginia-wins-third-straight-ncaa-womens-swimming-diving-championship/|access-date=May 22, 2023|archive-date=May 22, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522154424/https://virginiasports.com/news/2023/03/19/virginia-wins-third-straight-ncaa-womens-swimming-diving-championship/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Rivalries===
Official ACC designated rivalry games include the [[Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry]] and the Virginia–[[Louisville Cardinals|Louisville]] series. These two rivalries are guaranteed an annual game in all sports, and a home-and-away series in men's and women's basketball. The Cavaliers competed against the Hokies in the ''[[Virginia-Virginia Tech rivalry#Commonwealth Challenge & Clash|Commonwealth Challenge]]'' and more recently competed in the ''Commonwealth Clash'', under new rules, for many sports in which they compete head-to-head. The Cavaliers went 2–0 against the Hokies in the ''Challenge'' and 3–2 in the ''Clash'' (5–2 overall). Perhaps the two most significant rivalry games played between the Cavaliers and Hokies were both in men's basketball, in March 2007 and January 2019. In the former, the two teams met with identical 10–4 ACC records and the winner would clinch a share of the regular-season conference championship. UVA won the game 69–56 and took their fifth [[List of Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball regular season champions#By school|of 11]] ACC titles. In the latter, No. 4 UVA beat No. 9 Virginia Tech 81–59 in the only game between two AP Top 10 teams in the rivalry's history.

[[File:VT_-_UVA_2012_-_Akil_Mitchell_provides_defense.jpg|right|upright|thumb|UVA's [[Akil Mitchell]] defends Virginia Tech's [[Cadarian Raines]] in 2012 at Blacksburg]]

The ACC is often regarded as the best college basketball conference,<ref>[https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2017-01-26/college-basketball-numbers-look-why-acc-toughest-conference Why the ACC Is the Toughest Conference in Basketball] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015003042/https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2017-01-26/college-basketball-numbers-look-why-acc-toughest-conference |date=October 15, 2018 }}, accessed October 14, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/sports/ncaabasketball/acc-basketball-ncaa-tournament.html This A.C.C. Might Be the Best Basketball League Ever] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015003045/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/sports/ncaabasketball/acc-basketball-ncaa-tournament.html |date=October 15, 2018 }}, accessed October 14, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.espn.com/espn/dickvitale/story/_/id/11790975/dick-vitale-rates-acc-best-conference-college-basketball Dick Vitale: ACC is the best basketball conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925022929/https://www.espn.com/espn/dickvitale/story/_/id/11790975/dick-vitale-rates-acc-best-conference-college-basketball |date=September 25, 2024 }}, accessed February 22, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/01/27/college-basketball-caucus-which-is-the-best-conference/22402311/ College Basketball Caucus: Which is the Best Conference?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323234030/http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2015/01/27/college-basketball-caucus-which-is-the-best-conference/22402311/ |date=March 23, 2016 }}, accessed February 22, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25118100/observations-acc-makes-its-case-as-college-hoops-best-conference ACC Makes Its Case as Best Conference] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024426/http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/25118100/observations-acc-makes-its-case-as-college-hoops-best-conference |date=March 4, 2016 }}, accessed February 22, 2016</ref> and UVA leads the series in its official yearly home-and-away ACC basketball rivalries: [[Virginia–Virginia Tech men's basketball rivalry|against Virginia Tech]] 99–61, and against Louisville 23–7, {{as of|2025|lc=y}}. Other [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball#Rivalries|basketball rivalries]] include those against North Carolina and Maryland. Notably the [[1982 ACC men's basketball tournament|1982 ACC tournament]] championship game where [[Dean Smith]] had his team of future NBA stars (such as [[Michael Jordan]] and [[James Worthy]]) hold the ball for seven minutes, against a Virginia team featuring [[Ralph Sampson]], led to the advent of the [[shot clock]] and the [[three-point field goal|three-point line]]. The Maryland rivalry is now mostly dormant, but was reignited for the 2014 and 2018 editions of the [[ACC–Big Ten Challenge]], with both Challenges won by the Cavaliers on the road in College Park.

[[Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse|Virginia men's lacrosse]], as one of the all-time great NCAA programs, has a championship rivalry with fellow ACC program Syracuse (the Cavaliers and Orange holding 18 NCAA Championships between them) as well as rivalries against Big Ten programs Johns Hopkins and Maryland. The Syracuse and Johns Hopkins rivalries are played out at least once each season (Syracuse played ''twice'' in 2021<ref>[https://virginiasports.com/sports/mlax/schedule/ 2021 Virginia men's lacrosse schedule] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211025622/https://virginiasports.com/sports/mlax/schedule/ |date=February 11, 2021 }}. University of Virginia, January 2021. Accessed February 15, 2021.</ref>) with the teams often finding themselves facing off a second or third time in the ACC and NCAA tournaments. [[Virginia Cavaliers women's lacrosse|Virginia women's lacrosse]], also a multi-NCAA Championship program, maintains several of those same rivalries.

The Virginia football team competes against North Carolina in the [[South's Oldest Rivalry]], a historic football rivalry game which a sitting President of the United States, [[Calvin Coolidge]], made time to attend in Charlottesville in 1924. The 1960s and 1970s were particularly dark decades for the football program, which later experienced a resurgence in the 1980s and 1990s under [[George Welsh (American football)|George Welsh]]. Coach Welsh led the program to its first bowl bids starting with the [[1984 Peach Bowl]]. Welsh, who even reached AP No. 1 rankings for Virginia in October 1990, is a member of the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] after compiling the second-most wins in ACC history after [[Bobby Bowden]].<ref>[https://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/2010/7/22/1578527/acc-history-in-numbers-coaching ACC History in Numbers: Coaching] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204222943/https://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/2010/7/22/1578527/acc-history-in-numbers-coaching |date=December 4, 2017 }}, accessed December 3, 2017</ref> In a historic rivalry between two legendary coaches, Welsh finished two games up in the head-to-head series against Virginia Tech coach [[Frank Beamer]], 8–6. He was also dominant against UNC in the South's Oldest Rivalry, finishing 13–5–1, including a perfect 10–0 record against North Carolina at [[Scott Stadium]].

===Sponsorship===
In 2015, The Cavaliers negotiated a 10-year sponsorship deal with [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]], from which the program receives $3.5&nbsp;million per year.<ref>[http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavalierinsider/virginia-signs-lucrative-extension-with-nike/article_2e35d66a-41e7-11e5-8778-d7c82ebaabd0.html UVA signs lucrative extension with Nike] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522171023/http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavalierinsider/virginia-signs-lucrative-extension-with-nike/article_2e35d66a-41e7-11e5-8778-d7c82ebaabd0.html |date=May 22, 2017 }}, accessed August 13, 2015</ref>

== People ==
{{Main|List of University of Virginia people|List of University of Virginia School of Law alumni}}

=== Faculty ===
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Faculty were originally housed in the [[The Lawn|Academical Village]] among the students, serving as both instructors and advisors, continuing on to include the McCormick Road Old Dorms, though this has been phased out in favor of undergraduate student resident advisors (RAs). Several of the faculty, however, continue the university tradition of living on Grounds, either on the Lawn in the various Pavilions, or as fellows at one of three residential colleges ([[Brown College at Monroe Hill]], [[Hereford College]], and the [[International Residential College]]).

The university's faculty includes a [[National Humanities Medal]] and [[National Medal of Arts]] winner and former [[United States Poet Laureate]], an awardee of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]],<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=3421 |title = Spanish Professor David T. Gies is Awarded One of Spain's Highest Honors |work=UVA Today |access-date = November 26, 2014 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20120630101654/http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=3421 |archive-date = June 30, 2012 }}</ref> 25 [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim fellows]], 26 [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]] fellows, six [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] fellows, two [[Presidential Young Investigator Award]] winners, three [[Alfred P. Sloan Prize|Sloan award]] winners, three [[Packard Foundation]] Award winners, and a winner of the 2005 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/10_04_2005/marshall_barry.html |title = U.Va. Top News Daily |access-date = June 29, 2015 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100404004717/http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/10_04_2005/marshall_barry.html |archive-date = April 4, 2010 }}</ref> Physics professor James McCarthy was the lead academic liaison to the government in the establishment of [[Suranet]], and the university has also participated in [[ARPANET]], [[Abilene Network|Abilene]], [[Internet2]], and [[National LambdaRail|Lambda Rail]]. On March 19, 1986, the university's [[domain name]], <code>VIRGINIA.EDU</code>, became the first registration under the <code>[[.edu]]</code> [[top-level domain]] originating from the [[Commonwealth (U.S. state)|Commonwealth]] of [[Virginia]] on what would become the [[World Wide Web]].<ref>{{cite web |title = University of Virginia – virginia.edu |publisher = Alexa Internet, Inc. |url = http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=virginia.edu&url=virginia.edu |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220812161523/https://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=virginia.edu&url=virginia.edu |url-status = dead |archive-date = August 12, 2022 |access-date = January 9, 2007 }}</ref>

[[Larry Sabato]] has, according to ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'', become the most-cited professor in the country by national and regional news organizations, both on the Internet and in print.<ref name=Sabato>[http://www.centerforpolitics.org/about/staff_sabato.htm Center For Politics website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618213954/http://www.centerforpolitics.org/about/staff_sabato.htm |date=June 18, 2006 }}. Retrieved June 23, 2006.</ref> Civil rights activist [[Julian Bond]], a professor in the Corcoran Department of History from 1990 to 2012, was the chairman of the [[NAACP]] from 1998 to 2009 and was chosen to host the Nobel Laureates conference in 1998.
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=== Alumni ===
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{{As of|December 2014}}, the University of Virginia has 221,000 living graduates.<ref name="alumni-study">[https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-393723783.html U.Va. Darden School Survey Shows U.Va. Entrepreneurs' Significant Impact On Economy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008194810/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-393723783.html |date=October 8, 2016 }}, accessed September 28, 2016</ref> According to a study by researchers at the Darden School and Stanford University, UVA alumni have founded over 65,000 companies which have employed 2.3&nbsp;million people worldwide with annual global revenues of $1.6&nbsp;trillion.<ref name="alumni-study" /> Extrapolated numbers show companies founded by UVA alumni have created 371,000 jobs in the state of Virginia alone.<ref name="alumni-study" /> The relatively small amount that the Commonwealth gives UVA for support was determined by the study to have a tremendous [[return on investment]] for the state.<ref name="alumni-study" />

[[Rhodes Scholarship]]s are international postgraduate awards given to students to study at the [[University of Oxford]]. Since the scholarship program began in 1904, UVA has had fifty-seven [[Rhodes Scholar]]s.<ref name="Rhodes2021">[https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/45775/2021-rs_number-of-winners-by-institution.pdf Rhodes Winners by Institution, 2021] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412210509/https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/media/45775/2021-rs_number-of-winners-by-institution.pdf|date=April 12, 2021}}, accessed July 29, 2021</ref> 

Eight [[NASA]] astronauts and launch directors are UVA alumni: [[Karl Gordon Henize]], [[Bill Nelson]], [[Thomas Marshburn]], [[Leland Melvin]], [[Jeff Wisoff]], [[Kathryn C. Thornton|Kathryn Thornton]], [[Patrick G. Forrester|Patrick Forrester]]; and [[Michael D. Leinbach|Michael Leinbach]].

The [[Pulitzer Prize]] has been awarded to eight UVA alumni: [[Edward P. Jones]], [[Ron Suskind]], [[Virginius Dabney]], [[Claudia Emerson]], [[Henry S. Taylor|Henry Taylor]], [[Lane DeGregory]], [[George Rodrigue (journalist)|George Rodrigue]], and [[Michael Vitez]].

Government leaders include 28th President of the United States [[Woodrow Wilson]] (who attended before transferring), former [[Mueller special counsel investigation|Special Counsel]] and [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI Director]] [[Robert Mueller]]; [[NATO]] [[List of NATO Secretaries General|Secretary General]] [[Javier Solana]]; [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|U.S. Speaker of the House]] [[Robert M. T. Hunter]]; widely known United States Senators [[Harry F. Byrd Jr.|Harry Byrd]], [[Robert F. Kennedy]], and [[Ted Kennedy]]; first [[African American]] Chief Justice of the [[Virginia Supreme Court]] [[Leroy R. Hassell Sr.|Leroy Hassell]]; [[Delaware Court of Chancery]] Vice Chancellor [[J. Travis Laster]]; [[United States Supreme Court]] Justices [[Howell Edmunds Jackson]], [[James Clark McReynolds]], and [[Stanley Forman Reed]]; President of the Supreme Court of Israel, [[Asher Grunis]]; and Premier and President of the [[Beiyang government|First Republic of China]], [[Yan Huiqing]].

Thirty U.S. state or U.S. territorial Governors have graduated from UVA, including fifteen [[Governors of Virginia]],{{efn|Alumni who became Governor of Virginia include [[Gerald L. Baliles|Gerald Baliles]], [[Jim Gilmore]], [[Chuck Robb]], [[George Allen (U.S. politician)|George Allen]], [[John N. Dalton|John Dalton]], [[Mills Godwin]], [[Albertis Harrison]], [[J. Lindsay Almond]], [[John S. Battle|John Battle]], [[Colgate Darden]], [[Elbert Lee Trinkle|Elbert Trinkle]], [[Westmoreland Davis]], [[Claude A. Swanson|Claude Swanson]], [[Andrew Jackson Montague]], and [[Frederick W. M. Holliday|Frederick Holiday]].}} and fifteen Governors of other U.S. states and territories as well.{{efn|Alumni who became Governor of another U.S. state or territory include [[James Paul Clarke]], [[William Meade Fishback]], and [[Joseph Taylor Robinson]] ([[Arkansas]]), [[Janet Napolitano]] ([[Arizona]]), [[Lowell P. Weicker Jr.|Lowell Weicker]] ([[Connecticut]]), [[Charles L. Terry, Jr.|Charles Terry]] ([[Delaware]]), [[Millard F. Caldwell|Millard Caldwell]] (Florida), [[Evan Bayh]] ([[Indiana]]), [[Andy Beshear]] and [[Brereton Jones]] ([[Kentucky]]), [[Samuel D. McEnery|Sam McEnery]] ([[Louisiana]]), [[William Preston Lane Jr.|William Preston Lane]] ([[Maryland]]), [[Mark Sanford]] ([[South Carolina]]), [[Henry M. Mathews|Henry Mathews]] ([[West Virginia]]), and [[Luis Fortuño]] ([[Puerto Rico]]).}} <!-- No state gov't office holders other than Governors are listed on this page. No U.S. Representatives are listed here short of the U.S. Speaker of the House. No military leaders who have never held higher office. Only national household name U.S. Senators are listed here. -->

UVA's alumni ranks also include others who have achieved widespread fame: [[computer science]] pioneer [[John Backus]]; polar explorer [[Richard E. Byrd|Richard Byrd]]; physicians [[Walter Reed]], [[Charles T. Pepper]], [[J. Hartwell Harrison]], [[Hugh S. Cumming]], [[Rupert Blue]], [[Wade Hampton Frost]], [[Vivian Pinn]], and [[Francis Collins]]; scientists [[Stuart Schreiber]], [[Daniel Barringer (geologist)|Daniel Barringer]], and [[Richard A. Lutz|Richard Lutz]]; artists [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and [[Georgia O'Keeffe]]; musicians [[Stephen Malkmus]] and [[Boyd Tinsley]]; self-made billionaire [[Paul Tudor Jones]]; national news anchors [[Katie Couric]] and [[Brit Hume]]; actors [[Tina Fey]], [[Ben McKenzie]], and [[Sarah Drew]]; Team USA Olympic team captains [[John Harkes]], [[Dawn Staley]], and [[Claudio Reyna]]; NBA [[1985 NBA All-Star Game|All-Star MVP]] [[Ralph Sampson]] and the NBA's eighth ever [[50–40–90 club|50–40–90]] shooter [[Malcolm Brogdon]]; two-time [[FIFA Women's World Cup]] champions [[Becky Sauerbrunn]], [[Emily Sonnett]] and [[Morgan Gautrat|Morgan Brian]]; and voice actor [[Sam Riegel]].
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== See also ==
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* [[Academic honor code]]
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* [[Southern Ivy]]

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== References ==

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== Further reading ==
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* {{cite book |author-link = Philip Alexander Bruce |last=Bruce |first=Philip Alexander |title = History of the University of Virginia, 1819–1919: The Lengthening Shadow of One Man |edition=five vol. |location=New York |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishing|Macmillan]] |year=1920–1922 }}
* {{cite book |last=Dabney |first=Virginius |author-link = Virginius Dabney |title=Mr. Jefferson's University: A History |location=Charlottesville, VA |publisher=[[University of Virginia Press]] |year=1981 |isbn=0-8139-0904-X |url=https://archive.org/details/mrjeffersonsuniv0000dabn_a3g0}}
* {{cite book |last=Mapp |first=Alf J. |title = Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim |location=[[Lanham, MD]] |publisher=Madison Books |year=1991 |isbn=0-8191-8053-X |url-access=registration |url = https://archive.org/details/thomasjeffersonp00mapp }}
* Ragosta, John A.; Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy (eds.) (2019), ''The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University.'' Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
* {{cite book |title=Thomas Jefferson's Education |first=Alan |last=Taylor |date=October 15, 2019 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0393652420 }}
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