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Type of Institution: Private, Independent
Founded: 1830
University President: Dr. Edward L. Ayers
Director of Athletics: Jim Miller
Student Body: 2,911 full-time undergraduates. 3,608 full-time enrollment.
Student-faculty ratio: 9.4 to 1
Location: Richmond, the historical capital city of Virginia, with a population of 750,000 in the greater metropolitan area.
Academic programs: School of Arts and Sciences, The E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, The T. C. Williams School of Law and School of Continuing Studies.
Athletics: Division I athletic programs offering nine sports for men and 10 for women.
Student Life: Coordinate, (Richmond College and Westhampton College) with five student government associations and approximately 200 student organizations offering leadership opportunities. Eight social fraternities for men and eight sororities for women.
Faculty: 326 full-time faculty (includes professors, associate professors and assistant professors).
Richmond's 350 acre campus was cited as the "Most Beautiful in the Country" in the 2000 Princeton Review.
According to Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Richmond ranks as the 12th best value in private colleges and universities, tying Princeton and Dartmouth. "When is a prestigious school a great value? When it is affordable, too," says the publication.
Richmond is ranked the number one master's level university in the South by U.S. News & World Report.
Richmond has been included among the nation's best in every issue since U.S. News & World Report began its survey in 1983.
The Guide to 102 Best Values in America's Colleges and Universities says, "The University of Richmond has truly become a school of national stature."
Richmond is listed as one of the nation's 42 "Best Buys" by the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Only 22 private colleges are included.
Peterson's Competitive Colleges guide says of Richmond: "Students who attend Richmond find a rigorous intellectual experience that prepares them for the best graduate schools and the most challenging occupations in our society."
The Fiske Guide says of Richmond: "The University of Richmond provides an intimate atmosphere and rigorous academic climate equal to its Ivy League counterparts."
The Princeton Review ranked Richmond number one in its Quality of Life category and also placed it as one of the top 20 schools that are "Run Like Butter."
The T. C. Williams School of Law was the first law school in the country to require first-year students to have computers. Richmond's law school was ranked 20th in the nation in terms of student satisfaction in a Princeton Review study.
Fourteen Richmond faculty members have won the Virginia State Council of Higher Education's Outstanding Faculty Award since its inception in 1987.
1230 to 1360 is the middle 50 percent range of combined SAT scores of entering Richmond freshmen.
The $50 million the E. Claiborne Robins family gave Richmond in 1969 was at the time the largest gift by a living benefactor in the history of higher education.
The Jepson School of leadership Studies is the nation's first and only school of leadership studies. It opened in 1992 with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf as the keynote speaker.
Richmond hosted the 1992 presidential debate that many say turned the tide of the election.
The pass rate for Richmond's accounting graduates who take the CPA exam is frequently among the top ten in the country.
Nearly 85 percent of entering students graduate, compared to the national average of 50 percent.
The admission process is highly competitive. About 6,000 applicants are received each year for a freshman class of about 800.
The University added a $22 million arts center on the Westhampton side of the lake in 1996 and a beautiful $7 million alumni center in 1997. Whitehurst, "the living room of Richmond College," opened in 1998.
Richmond's chapter of Habitat for Humanity has raised more money than any other college or university chapter in the nation.
Earl Hamner, creator of the televison show "The Waltons," attended Richmond College in the 1940s. The college John Boy Walton attended, Boatwright University, is based on Richmond College.
