University of Virginia

The University of a research university founded by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and located in, Virginia. known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code,

 

 and  of the original "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League

Its initial Board of Visitors included U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. Monroe d in 1819, with its Academical Village and original courses of study conceived and designed entirely by Jefferson. UNESCO an honor shared with nearby Monticello

Since 1904,membership in the Association of American Universities for research-focused institutions and was the first university of the American South to attain membership. The university is classified as Very High Research 

Activity in the Carnegie Classification and is considered its state's flagship research university bye  is affiliated with 7 Nobel Laureates, and has produced seven NASA astronauts, seven Marshall Scholars, four Churchill Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, and 50 Rhodes Scholars, the most of any state-affiliated institution in the U

While is a public in part by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the university receives far more funding from private sources than public. Students come to attend the university in  from all 50 states and 147 countries.

 additionally operates the College at Wise in the far southwestern corner of the state, and previously operated George Mason University and the University of Mary Washington as branch campuses until 1972.

Virginia's athletic teams are known as the Cavaliers, and since 1953 have competed in the Atlantic Coast Conference of Division I of the NCAA.

 After winning NCAA titles (the College Cup in soccer, the College World Series in baseball, and the NCAA a single academic year, was the Capital One Cup for the top overall men's sports program in the nation for Cavaliers have won 31 national titles overall, including 23 in men's sports. Counting 

only NCAA sanctioned championships has won a total of 23 NCAA titles, with 16 in men's sports, ranking

 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 schoolmicine, law, mathematics, 

 chemistry, ancient languages, modern languages, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy.Another innovation of the new university was that higher education would be separated from religious doctrine.

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

  ad no divinity school, was established independently of any religious sect, and the Grounds were planned and centered upon a library, the Rotunda, rather than a church, distinguishing it from peer universities still primarily functioning as seminaries for one particular strain 

 of Protestantism to philosopher Thomas Cooper that "a professorship of theology should have no place in our institution", and never has there been one. There were initially two degrees awarded by the university: