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[quote=Anonymous]Overall, I think UVA reputation is quite good, but you need to be realistic and nuanced when you look at it.

I lived in California for quite a while and I don't ever recall UVA getting mentioned the same way one might hear Stanford or Harvard mentioned or in the same way it is mentioned on this board.  That doesn't mean it isn't well regarded in business or hiring circles, it just illustrates that a lot of talk about a school's reputation is regional.

Although USNews tries to bucket colleges into just a few categories, I think you need to break a school into its components.  UVA has been strongest historically, in my view, in a couple of graduate professional fields, law and business.   Medical is pretty strong, but not as strong as those two.

UVA is not nearly as strong as an across-the-board research and graduate university (think Berkeley or Michigan), particularly in STEM.  It is much closer to upper middle of the pack for state universities, and would be behind schools like Wisconsin, Texas, and Washington, for instance.   This is what largely being rated in these world university rankings, which is why UVA rates pretty low in reports like the QS ranking, where I think it recently ranked 193.

I think UVA is considered to be one of the best public schools for overall undergraduate education.  Many state schools, in my opinion, use undergraduates to prop up the graduate and research programs, and they put their undergraduate focus into select programs like business, engineering, and honors colleges.  These schools are effectively giving much more favorable treatment to some undergraduates at the expense of others.  I think UVA does less of this (as does W&M) than most public universities.

There is a well-to-do, highly-privileged segment of the population that largely only look at private schools for undergraduate.  You will see relatively few students from say Collegiate school in NYC that go to say UVA or W&M.  They are really targeting elite privates. [/quote]

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