Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity

• Undergrad program: Arts & sciences plus professions, high graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school

• Enrollment profile: Majority undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $19,469 . This is 100% the average cost of Harvard.

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 62% of first year students come from Virginia

• In US percentage: 95% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 95.2% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 90.8%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 2.7%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 11.7 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 6.8 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 7429 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 16.00 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• University of Virginia-Main Campus lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emory University, University of Washington-Seattle Campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University-Main Campus, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus, Stony Brook University, University of Missouri-Columbia, Iowa State University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Arizona, University of Oregon
• University of Virginia-Main Campus compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University in the City of New York, Princeton University, Brown University, University of California-Los Angeles, Duke University, Northwestern University, Johns Hopkins University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, New York University, Vanderbilt University, University of Southern California, Washington University in St Louis, The University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, Tulane University of Louisiana, Carnegie Mellon University, Rice University, California Institute of Technology, University of California-Irvine, University of California-San Diego, Texas A & M University-College Station, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of California-Davis, Ohio State University-Main Campus, University of Maryland-College Park, University of Rochester, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, Case Western Reserve University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Brandeis University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Michigan State University, University at Buffalo, University of Iowa, University of Kansas, The Catholic University of America
• These institutions compare themselves to University of Virginia-Main Campus, but not vice versa: United States Naval Academy, Bowdoin College, Florida State University, Wake Forest University, William & Mary, Auburn University, Clemson University, University of Connecticut, University of South Carolina-Columbia, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus, Texas Tech University, University of Delaware, University of Vermont, The University of Alabama, Temple University, University of Utah, University at Albany, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of North Dakota, Christopher Newport University, University of Wyoming, Liberty University, Norfolk State University

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).