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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are wrong, liberal arts absolutely includes STEM fields such as math, biology, chemistry. Those are liberal arts.  And no most schools don't say "liberal arts and sciences", in fact name one? They may says "arts and sciences" such as UVA, but not "liberal arts and sciences". You are wrong.[/quote]

Schools started saying "Liberal Arts and Sciences" specifically because there are so many people out there who aren't aware that science and mathematics are in Liberal Arts.[/quote]

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