Original sentence: Both rankings place the University of Virginia #2 out of approximately 200 national public universities studied and #1 among universities in the state of Virginia, public or private.But Wall Street Journal study was based on the percentage of students attending the best graduate programs, and the University of Virginia (2.6%) easily outpaced the small liberal arts universities of its state such as Washington and Lee University (1.7%) and the College of William and Mary (0.8%) on this size-adjusted basis.News and World Report rankings, though the criteria are completely unrelated.The Wall Street Journal () survey of "feeder schools" to top 5 graduate programs in 2003 yielded nearly identical results to the yearly U
Edited sentence: News and World Report rankings, placing the University of Virginia #2 out of approximately 200 national public universities studied and #1 among universities in the state of Virginia, public or private.The Wall Street Journal () survey of "feeder schools" to top 5 graduate programs in 2003 yielded remarkably similar results to the yearly U.The study was based on the percentage of students attending the best graduate programs, rather than raw numbers, but the University of Virginia (2.6%) easily outpaced the small liberal arts universities of its state such as Washington and Lee University (1.7%) and the College of William and Mary (0.8%) even on this adjusted basis