Academics
Southern Virginia University offers thirteen different majors: Art, Biology, Business Management and Leadership, Computer Science, English, Family and Child Development, History, Liberal Arts, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Spanish, and Theatre. There are also three additional minors at Southern Virginia University: Chemistry, Creative Writing, and Mathematics. Other Programs include Health Pre-Professionals, Pre-Law, ROTC and Teaching Licensure.
Incoming students have averaged a 3.34 high school GPA with ACT and SAT test scores averaging about 23 and 1050, respectively. Tuition for the 2012-2013 academic year is $9,450 per semester. The retention rate at SVU is around 37% (after Freshman year), with a significant number of students leaving to serve as Mormon missionaries, and the graduation rate is 28%.
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“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)