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Social: The university strengthens the state’s future workforce through initiatives designed to enhance local elementary and secondary education. For more than a century, thousands of teachers, researchers, administrators and students at the university have dedicated their academic careers to improving K-12 education. Every college and school sponsors programs and projects that benefit public schools.

The University of Texas at Austin serves students from all walks of life. For example, the university ranks fifth in the nation in producing undergraduate degrees for minority groups, according to Black Issues in Higher Education magazine. The university ranks eighth nationally among the magazine’s Top 100 producers of undergraduates for both Asian Americans and Hispanics. It annually awards more than 12,000 degrees and offers more than 330 approved degree programs. The university has one of the largest graduate schools in the nation, with more than 11,000 students. It is a national leader in the number of masters’s degrees and doctor’s degrees awarded.

The university’s museums, libraries and research facilities offer some of the world’s greatest collections of artifacts, art, manuscripts, photographs, musical recordings and historical documents. Museum offerings include Latin American, Renaissance and Baroque art, 40 million documents relating to the career of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 30 million literary manuscripts, five million photographs and five million natural sciences specimens.