UM-ANN ARBOR or UVA?

[Globalist]

<p>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</a> Woo](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=5013]Meredith”>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:</p>

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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.

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

<p>Also, UVa is a member of [Universitas</a> 21](<a href=“http://www.universitas21.com/memberlist.html]Universitas”>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.</p>

<p>Good luck next year wherever you go.</p>