after U of Virginia (33rd place, 16), closest is UC Berkeley (41st place, 17).

1. The Wall St. Journal published a top-50 feeder ranking by analyzing the top 15 graduate schools to see where their incoming graduate students got their undergraduate degrees, while taking into account the size of the undergraduate institution. (ref: http://www.inpathways.net/top50feeder.pdf)
   
2. The student-faculty ratios are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Virginia is in Charlottesville, VA, is public, is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (7th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (12th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (33rd place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (39th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (54th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (76th place)
• ARWU world ranking (101st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (112th place)
• research spending ($318.6M)
• endowment per full-time student ($196,338)
• average full-time teaching salary ($113,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,228)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,834)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,216)
• research spending per student ($10,803)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,466)
• cost of a shared room ($5,169)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (212.9%)
• full-time retention rate (98%)
• undergrads among full-time students (66.2%)
• in-state freshmen (65.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (29%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.9%)
• minorities (19.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• Asians (8.5%)
• foreign students (7.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.5%)
• Hispanics (4.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -24.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (730)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (159)
• average January temperature (35.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,539)
• first-year applicants (27,178)
• foreign students (2,274)
• full-time grad students (6,056)
• full-time undergrads (14,928)
• grad students (8,085)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (3)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (48)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,190)
• undergrads (15,822)
• yearly for-credit students (29,491)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.49)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (47.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (171 meters)

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