About Arts & Sciences

The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is the largest of the University of Virginia’s 10 schools and is the institution’s intellectual core. Offering more than 50 undergraduate majors and concentrations and more than two dozen graduate programs, Arts & Sciences spans the liberal arts, stretching from the study of the birth of the universe to the latest scientific and technological advances and encompassing the literatures and languages, history and arts, economics and politics of the world's cultures. The College and Graduate School comprise more than 10,000 students and more than 750 faculty members.

Distinguished alumni include Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Institute, journalist Katie Couric, Tina Fey, television and film writer and actress, John Snow, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Claudia Emerson, the most recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.