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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Undergraduate law?  [/b]Business best in the nation?  Very good but try to convince people who think that would be a school like Wharton.  McIntire also has restricted enrollment to about 4% of the undergraduate enrollment.

UVA is too far out of line with top schools in the percentage of students doing STEM degrees.  Unless STEM is a fad, I'd like to see that go up.  CMU is at a relative extreme with about 58% STEM compared to 27% at UVA (including engineering), but Michigan is 40%, Berkeley 36%, Harvard 46%, Princeton 47%, Duke 48%, Amherst (with no engineering) 35%.

Perhaps the biggest gap is non-engineering STEM at UVA.  Only 15% at UVA outside of engineering are in STM.  Harvard is 42%, Stanford is 33%, Duke is 32%, etc.

Stanford has a higher percentage in computer science than UVA has in CS, Physics, Chemistry, Math/Statistics, and Biology/Life Sciences combined.  Compared to UVA, Harvard has over 2X the percentage in CS, 7X in Math/Statistics, over 3X in Physical Sciences, and 2X in Biological/Life sciences.

UVA should target raising undergraduate STEM enrollment by 10 percentage points or more in my view.

[/quote]Yes, the undergrad law major is PPL: Politics Philosophy & Law patterned after the famous PP&E programs at Oxford[/quote]

[b]If you say Oxford PPE I know what you are talking about.  If you say UVA undergraduate law, I have no idea what you are talking about.[/b]   Oxford PPE has been a long-known launching pad for politicians:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_people_with_PPE_degrees

If there is a launching pad for politicians at UVA it is the (graduate) law school.  (Law school in general is the biggest launching pad for U.S. politicians, perhaps unfortunately.)[/quote]

It's called PPL, Politics Philosophy & the Law. http://ppl.virginia.edu/.  Not coincidentally, the PPL program will graduate one Marshall who will be going to Oxford in the fall for a D.Phil. (providing there is a program there in the fall) and two other PPL majors have been accepted for M.Phils. at Oxford.[/quote]

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