University of Virginia is on the GSA Schedule

The School of Continuing and Professional Studies now offers the government a number of business and education courses contracted through the General Services Administration, Federal Supply Schedule 69. Courses are taught in the classroom at UVA's Northern Virginia Center and, in some cases, onsite at locations in the northern Virginia area and online.

For more information about course offerings, government discounts, terms, cohort requirements, and pricing, please contact: Russell Lentner, (703) 536-1127 or rlentner@virginia.edu.

Tradition and Excellence

The University of Virginia was established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson himself was a man of many talents, and he expressed them fully in founding the University of Virginia; he outlined the institution's purpose, designed its buildings and supervised construction, planned the curriculum, and recruited the faculty.

While UVA has grown since Jefferson's day, it still remains small among major state supported institutions. UVA enrolls approximately 17,000 students at its main campus in Charlottesville, called the Grounds. Through its ten schools, the University offers bachelor's degrees in 49 fields and programs, master's degrees in 96, educational specialist degrees in 6, first professional degrees in 2, and doctorate degrees in 54. The quality of the student body is evident in the awards and honors many of them receive. UVA has graduated over 40 Rhodes Scholars, among the highest number graduated by state institutions. UVA was rated among the best public universities in the country by Richard Moll in The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. In the Selective Guide to Colleges, the New York Times judges UVA as the "nation's best public university" and "one of the three best overall." Likewise, UVA continues to be one of the nation's top public universities, according to a survey undertaken by U.S. News and World Report.

Serving The Greater Good

Since 1948, UVA's primary arm for conducting conference, workshop, institute, and contract education and training programs is the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. As such, the School is the University's primary means for building long term educational relationships with the citizenry of the Commonwealth and the nation as a whole. Over the past five years the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies had a total registered enrollment of over 85,000 Virginians alone. The majority of registrants are post degree adults, many of whom have completed graduate study and are participating in seminars and courses to broaden or deepen their knowledge base.

The School maintains the traditions of scholarship, instructional excellence, and academic integrity that characterize UVA as a whole. However, its programs may diverge from the customs of those taught on Grounds in several important respects. First, the format, time, and location for learning is often determined by the needs of part time adult students contract client; secondly, the content of the course, program, conference, or learning experience is developed from an assessment of the needs of the learners, and from the experiential background which they possess; and finally, all pertinent disciplines rather than a single perspective are considered in the development of program content. 

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