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About University of Richmond

The University of Richmond, also known as UR or U of R, is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university in Richmond, which is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, an independent city with a population estimated at a number of more than 200 000 inhabitants, during the 2007 census. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond area, MSA having more than 1 200 000 people, living within its limits, fact which makes it the 3rd largest metropolitan area in the state.

The University of Richmond was founded in 1830, by Virginia Baptists, as a seminary for men, and it was incorporated in 1840 as Richmond College. Since then, the university has constantly grown, having today an enrollment estimated at a number of approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students, offering a wide array of educational programs in various fields of study, on both the undergraduate and graduate levels, through 5 schools: the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the School of Continuing Studies and the T.C. Williams School of Law.

Athletics

UR's athletic teams are known as the Richmond Spiders, who compete in NCAA Division I, in the Atlantic 10 Conference, in various sports, for both men and women, including in basketball, baseball, football, cross country, tennis and lacrosse. The University of Richmond won its first NCAA national championship ever, in 2008, when the Spiders football team defeated the Montana Grizzlies, in the NCAA Division I Football Championship, achievement which made football the most popular sports at the university. Richmond is the only university in the country with the spider as its official mascot. The Spiders' distinctive colors are blue and red.

Notable Alumni

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: Leslie M. Baker, Jr. - former President and CEO, Wachovia Corporation, William K. Howell - former President, Miller Brewing Company, Frank E. Resnik - former Chairman and CEO, Philip Morris USA, Steve Buckingham - multi Grammy winning record producer and music executive, Douglas S. Freeman - two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian, Leland D. Melvin - NASA astronaut and Saul Krugman - scientist, conducted pioneering research on hepatitis B vaccine, among many others.