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College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary, chartered in 1693 by King William III and Queen Mary II of England, is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States after Harvard, and its historic Williamsburg campus sits directly adjacent to Colonial Williamsburg's restored 18th-century town center. The college can claim several distinctly American academic firsts: it established the nation's first law school, founded by Thomas Jefferson's own professor George Wythe, and it's credited with founding the country's first Phi Beta Kappa chapter, the academic honor society that later spread to campuses nationwide. Notable alumni from William & Mary's earliest classes include Thomas Jefferson himself, along with fellow founding-era figures James Monroe and John Tyler, giving the small college a direct, documented connection to the drafting of the country's founding political institutions that few other universities can claim. William & Mary's combination of a small, selective undergraduate student body — fewer than 7,000 students — and Ivy League-caliber academic rigor at public in-state tuition rates has earned it a longstanding "Public Ivy" reputation, and its historic campus remains one of the most architecturally distinct in the country.
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Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech, founded in 1872 as a land-grant military college, maintains the Corps of Cadets as an optional undergraduate program alongside its much larger civilian student body, a military tradition dating to the university's founding that continues to produce a significant share of the US Army's commissioned officers each year. The university's College of Engineering is one of the largest and most respected in the country, and Virginia Tech's aerospace, mechanical, and computer engineering programs have built particularly strong reputations, drawing on the university's decades-long research partnerships with the federal government and defense contractors. The campus and community endured a devastating 2007 mass shooting, one of the deadliest in American history at the time, and Virginia Tech has since become a nationally cited case study in campus safety policy and mental health response, with the university actively engaged in ongoing research and advocacy stemming from that tragedy. Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus, built largely from distinctive local "Hokie Stone" limestone quarried near campus, gives the university an architecturally uniform, recognizable look, and its combination of engineering strength, a proud military tradition, and one of the most passionate fan bases in college football has made it one of Virginia's most recognizable public universities.
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