Is UVA on the rise academically?

[Marsden]

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The OP asked about rankings. So here’s what the rankings say. US News gives UVA a financial resources rank of 64. Cal is 43; UM is 36; UNC is 30, UCLA is 23.</p>

<p>While UVA raises money like a private school, it has the worst financial deal from its home state of any of these flagships. W&M is even worse – 69 grade. And that depresses UVA’s rating and that may depress its rating further in the future.</p>

<p>UVA gets the least amount of state support. Even less than schools in Michigan and CA (which have horrible budget situations). And UVA can’t get any relief by raising oos enrollment. UM’s oos enrollment is now above 40%. Cal and UCLA have doubled or tripled oos enrollment in the past few years. It is now easier to get into UCLA or Cal as an oos applicant than an in-stater! Those other flagships also get a lot more research funding per capita (more STEM) than UVA does. And they are bigger than UVA (economies of scale); although student/teacher ratios are the same or lower than UVA’s.

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<p>This is something I was wondering about. During the Sullivan/Dragas drama I read that UVA gets only 6% of its operational funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Is there any prominent public university that does so poorly? Despite UVA’s strong support among alumni, that’s a pretty high hurdle to overcome. And of course it adds salt to the wound that the Governor and the General Assembly are nonetheless in control of university policy.</p>