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In 2009, The University of Virginia was ranked as the second best public university in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report. Two years earlier the University’s undergrad program was also rated number two out of not just public universities but private ones as well. In the 20-year history of University of Virginia rankings, the university has never dropped out of the Top 25, and the University of Virginia has ranked as either number one or number two each single year that U.S. News has ranked public universities in their own category. The University of Virginia has had galore highly considered graduate programs that U.S. News and World Report rated each in their respective fields, amongst the top 10. Some of these programs include Tax Law, American Literature, U.S. Colonial History, and Special Education. A very famous poetical by the name of Edgar Allen Poe attended the University of Virginia in 1826, where he took classes in French and German, for the duration of the same timeframe that the basi Rotunda was still being constructed. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation is a program that offers a set of full four year tuition scholarships based on international, regional, and at-large competitions. High schools nominate students who are then interviewed and invited to attend a weekend-long series of tests as the college determines their aptitude, suitability, and strength of character. Only approximately three percent of the students that are nominated for this scholarship receive it. The University of Virginia offers a total of 94 master’s degrees, 48 bachelor’s degrees, 55 doctoral degrees, and 6 instructional specialist degrees. It likewise offers 2 first-professional degrees, which are in medicine and law, to it is students. The University of Virginia has a big Library System that holds a whopping 5 million volumes of text. It also has an Electronic Text Center that has 70,000 books put online as well as 350,000 images and illustrations that accompany them. This is the biggest collection of electronic texts kept by a university in the world. These books are open to the public as well as to students, and the Library receives thousands of visitors daily. |


