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University of Virginia
The University of Virginia was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, who designed the original campus himself — a complex he called the "Academical Village," centered on the Rotunda, a domed library building modeled on the Pantheon in Rome that Jefferson considered one of his proudest architectural achievements alongside Monticello. Jefferson's original design deliberately placed the library, rather than a church, at the physical and symbolic center of the university, a break from the religiously oriented campus layouts of most other early American colleges that reflected Jefferson's Enlightenment-era emphasis on secular scholarship over religious instruction. UVA's Darden School of Business and its law school have each built strong national reputations, and the university's "Honor System," a student-run code prohibiting lying, cheating, and stealing with a single sanction of expulsion, has operated continuously since 1842, making it one of the oldest and strictest student-governed honor codes at any American university. The university's combination of a Jefferson-designed historic campus, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and consistently top-tier public-university rankings has made UVA one of the most selective public universities in the country, frequently grouped alongside UC Berkeley and Michigan as the strongest public research universities outside a state's largest metropolitan area.
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Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University, founded in 1749, carries the names of two of the most consequential figures in American history — George Washington, whose 1796 stock gift saved the financially struggling school and prompted its renaming, and Robert E. Lee, who served as the university's president after the Civil War and is buried in a chapel on campus that still bears his name. The university's student-run Honor System, in which violations can result in expulsion decided entirely by a student-elected panel, is considered one of the strictest and most fully student-governed honor codes among American colleges, giving W&L students an unusually high degree of self-governance over academic and social conduct. W&L's undergraduate business program, the Williams School, is one of the only accredited undergraduate business programs housed within a nationally ranked liberal arts college, giving students access to a pre-professional business curriculum alongside the broader liberal arts education the university is otherwise built around. The university's small size, fewer than 2,000 undergraduates, combined with its historic Lexington, Virginia campus and its consistently top-ranked national liberal arts college status, has made W&L a distinctive choice for students seeking elite liberal arts academics paired with a genuine undergraduate business degree option.
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