In 1904, UVA became the first university south of Washington, D.C. to be elected to the
Association of American Universities. After a gift by
Andrew Carnegie in 1909 the University of Virginia was organized into twenty-six departments across six schools including the
Andrew Carnegie School of Engineering, the
James Madison School of Law, the
James Monroe School of International Law, the
James Wilson School of Political Economy, the
Edgar Allan Poe School of English and the
Walter Reed School of Pathology. The honorific historical names for these schools – several of which have remained as modern
schools of the university – are no longer used.