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unitid 234076 · Charlottesville, VA · public 4-year · suburb (midsize)

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Public university in Charlottesville, Virginia, US

founded
1819
enrollment 2023
30,044
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of University of Virginia-Main Campus

Aaron Josephson; cropped by Ibn Battuta · Public domain

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville City and Albemarle County in Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its original governing Board of Visitors included three U.S. presidents: Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, the latter as sitting president of the United States at the time of its foundation. As its first two rectors, presidents Jefferson and Madison played key roles in the university's foundation, with Jefferson designing both the original courses of study and the university's original architecture. The original campus contains President Monroe's former residence and law office, today used as a residential college. wikipedia rev 1363698399 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

17%

2nd pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

17,597

85th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

16%

undergrads on Pell grants

7th pctl among public 4-years

completion

96%

finish within 150% time

100th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$39,926

99th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$21,565

after aid, aided students

94th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$86,863

after entry, Title IV students

98th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$17,500

36th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $8,174 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    19%
  • 30-48k
    11%
  • 48-75k
    14%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$75,580
First-generation students
16%
In-state tuition & fees
$21,803

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 5.0× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.1,098——
Criminal Justice and Corrections.493——
Economics.492$95,941$19,000
Criminal Justice and Corrections.487——
Business Administration, Management and Operations.483$233,655—
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.406—$18,347
Biology, General.299$67,974$19,500
Computer and Information Sciences, General.297$160,993$17,783
Law.283$247,143—
Psychology, General.242$67,873$19,500
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.198——
Curriculum and Instruction.197$64,130—

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 5,976 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,299) · basketball player (520) · university teacher (497) · politician (357) · lawyer (323) · writer (194) · American football player (128) · historian (115)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Woodrow Wilson Peace 1919
  • William Faulkner Literature 1949
  • Ronald Coase Economics 1991
  • Alfred G. Gilman Medicine 1994
  • Ferid Murad Medicine 1998

The portrait wall

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363698399), CC BY-SA 4.0.