UM-ANN ARBOR or UVA?

Globalist
Sat, 10 May 2008 17:57:05 +0000

Keefer, 5% of UVa students are international - many of them come from China. Also, UVa is well-known for its extraordinary emphasis in undergraduate education especially for a public flagship university. To quote [Meredith Woo](http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=5013), who just left Michigan to be UVA’s new Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences:



The University of Virginia is unique among institutions of higher education. It combines the goals and purposes of a public university while maintaining the highest excellence in research and scholarship — and it does so without compromising the quality of undergraduate education. I think that in a great public university, two of the three may be combined, but rarely all three.



Gaotingting07, to get the best answers about UVa from an international student’s perspective (especially from China), you should email UVA’s [International Student Ambassadors from China](http://www.virginia.edu/iso/StudentAmbassadors/china.htm).

Also, UVa is a member of [Universitas 21](http://www.universitas21.com/memberlist.html), an international consortium of research universities along with Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the University of Hong Kong. So, UVa has a lot of connections to China and other universities throughout the world.

Good luck next year wherever you go.