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The University of Virginia (also called U.Va., UVA, Mr. Jefferson's University, or The University[1]) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, established by Thomas Jefferson. It is the only North American university designated as a World Heritage Site. Conceived by 1800, and established in 1819, it is notable in U.S. history for being the first to offer academic specializations in disciplines now common, such as Architecture, Astronomy, and Philosophy, as well as for being the first to separate church and education. Its School of Engineering and Applied Science was the first engineering school in the United States associated with a university. Officially, U.Va. is incorporated as The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
To receive a degree from the University of Virginia, it must be earned academically – there has never been an honorary degree offered.[17] The policy was instituted by Thomas Jefferson. When the Virginia Legislature's Committee of Schools and Colleges was reconsidering it in 1845, then U.Va. professor and future Massachusetts Institute of Technology founder William Barton Rogers wrote "the legislators of the University have, we think, wisely made their highest academic honor—that of Master of Arts of the University of Virginia—the genuine test of diligent and successful literary training, and, disdaining such literary almsgiving, have firmly barred the door against the demands of spurious merit and noisy popularity." Sixteen years later in 1861 when MIT was chartered, Rogers carried the U.Va. policy through to the new institute.
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