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See which careers fit your traits — based on what 773+ UVA alumni actually went on to do.

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What UVA grads actually do

Based on 773 notable UVA alumni with Wikipedia pages. Data: Wikidata (CC0).

politician
146
lawyer
111
writer
70
university teacher
66
basketball player
45
American football player
41
judge
37
journalist
37
diplomat
32
researcher
28
association football player
25
historian
23

Notable UVA alumni

James Beverley Sener
James Beverley Sener
judge · lawyer
Mike Scott
Mike Scott
basketball player
Richard E. Byrd
Richard E. Byrd
military officer · aircraft pilot
Longin Pastusiak
Longin Pastusiak
politician · historian
J. Lawrence Smith
J. Lawrence Smith
journalist · physician
Marion McCarrell Scott
Marion McCarrell Scott
diplomat
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
essayist · literary critic
Roger Mason, Jr.
Roger Mason, Jr.
basketball player

Salary outlook for top UVA career paths

National median annual wage (BLS Occupational Employment Statistics).

politician
10th–90th percentile: $21,010$129,510
$47,290
median / yr
lawyer
10th–90th percentile: $69,760$239,200
$145,760
median / yr
writer
10th–90th percentile: $40,900$148,240
$73,690
median / yr
basketball player
10th–90th percentile: $27,730$239,200
$70,280
median / yr
journalist
10th–90th percentile: $31,550$160,360
$57,500
median / yr
diplomat
10th–90th percentile: $45,950$210,890
$148,910
median / yr

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About UVA

The University of Virginia (UVA or Virginia) is a public research university located in Charlottesville City and Albemarle County in Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its original governing Board of Visitors included three U.S. presidents: Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, the latter as sitting president of the United States at the time of its foundation. As its first two rectors, presidents Jefferson and Madison played key roles in the university's foundation, with Jefferson designing both the original courses of study and the university's original architecture. The original campus contains President Monroe's former residence and law office, today used as a residential college. Now expanded to 1,135 acres (459 ha) of central campus, the modern university is composed of eight undergraduate and three professional schools: the School of Law, the Darden School of Business, and the School of Medicine. The university has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1904. The university's leadership, faculty, research staff, and alumni have included several United States presidents, foreign heads of state, Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, Marshall Scholars, Fulbright Scholars, and 57 Rhodes Scholars—the most of any state university. Its alumni include 31 state governors (including fourteen governors of Virginia) and 33 United States senators. UVA students and alumni have founded companies such as Reddit, Skillshare, VMware, and Space Adventures. Its athletic teams, the Virginia Cavaliers, have twice won the Capital One Cup for overall athletics prowess and compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Source: Wikipedia · Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.

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