Best value

The University has been rated as one of the top 10 bargains among the nation's public colleges and universities, according to "America's Best Value Colleges: 2007 Edition."

The guidebook, compiled by The Princeton Review, draws on institutional data and student opinion surveys collected from 646 colleges and universities beginning in the fall of 2004 and continuing through the summer of 2005.

“Few schools can match University of Virginia’s potent combination of phenomenal faculty, intelligent students, remarkable intercollegiate sports and extraordinary academics,” the editors report in the book’s three-page profile of U.Va. “Indeed, students are continually impressed by the high caliber of opportunities available to them, both within the classroom and outside it.”