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Welcome to the Office of Diversity
The University of Virginia has
achieved an international reputation through its comprehensive
programs, expanding and pace setting research and ability to attract
leading scholars to its faculty.
With the second highest endowment of any state affiliated university in the United States, its comprehensive and multidisciplinary programs are continuously evolving consistent with the vision and practical approach of its founder, Thomas Jefferson.
The rural ambiance of central Virginia combined with the diversified and cosmopolitan communities surrounding the University to offer a uniquely pleasant life style. With Washington D.C. one hundred and ten miles to the north and Richmond seventy miles to the east, there is also easy access to major northeastern/southern cities as well as to beaches and mountains.
Integral to the University is its School of Medicine with over one thousand medical and graduate students supported by a faculty of seven hundred. Its balanced program of teaching, research and patient care, attract over thirty-one hundred applicants each year.
Sixty-five percent of those admitted are from Virginia, with the others coming from throughout the nation. Over sixty percent are females, with a minority enrollment at one of the highest of any non-minority School of Medicine in the United states.
- Clinical teaching is accomplished in the nearly six hundred bed University Medical Center convenient to classrooms and laboratories.
- Training is also provided in the rural and urban locations throughout Virginia.
- A collegial atmosphere encourages collaboration with the greater University while fostering close relationships between faculty and students.
UVA Health System is an academic health system that includes a 589-bed Magnet® hospital, the UVA School of Medicine, a level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia. UVA is recognized for excellence by U.S. News & World Report, Best Doctors in America and America's Top Doctors.
For additional information regarding UVa's committment to diversity please click the image below to see a message from President Teresa Sullivan:
