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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]thoughts on national reputation, academics, and social life?[/quote]

UVA is overall a much better school for most liberal arts majors but UT seems to do better on STEM fields. Nevertheless, living in a red state these days is kind of sketchy especially with academic suppression and curtailing free speech. I don't think this bodes well for schools in these places.[/quote]

First- liberal arts includes sciences, so it is not the opposite of STEM. Secondly, I think you are underrecogning how strong the departments at UT are. I don't think it is especially important at an undergrad level, since I think that a given undergrad can get a great education at either place. but, it is ridiculous to say that UVA is a much better school, particulalrly without pointing to any data.
Department rankings:   UVA,  UT
English- 11, 17
History- 18, 11
Sociology- 34, 11

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Liberal arts does not include sciences, which is why the college is often named "Liberal Arts [i]and[/i] Sciences". And STEM does not include social sciences.

UT has a strong graduate department for humanities & social sciences. But for an undergraduate education in humanities, the small class sizes matter much more than graduate research.

This is the opposite for STEM - graduate research means top tier facilities that undergrads can use. And STEM lectures are not discussion-heavy so the small class sizes are unimportant. [/quote]

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