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Facts & Figures

National Rankings

#10

Top Public Schools, National Universities

U.S. News & World Report, 2022
number 7

U.S. Public Colleges

Business First, 2020
Number 8

Best-Value Public Colleges

Kiplinger, 2019

Top 10 In More than 48 Areas

U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools, 2020-21

International & Research Rankings

number 43

Best Global Universities

U.S. News & World Report, 2022
number 33

World University Rankings

Center for World University Rankings, 2020-2021
number 13

Nature Index for Scientific Research

Nature Index, June, 2018
number 31

World Reputation Rankings

Times Higher Education, 2019

General

General

  • Year founded: 1883
  • Colleges and schools: 18
  • Alumni: 482,000+
  • Teaching faculty (Fall 2021): 3,133
  • Enrollment (Fall 2022)
    • Undergraduate students: 41,309
    • Graduate students: 11,075
    • Total students: 52,384
    • Number of states represented: 50
    • Percentage of out-of-state students: 10.3%
    • Number of countries represented: 132
    • Percentage of international students: 9.8%
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Student Profile, Fall 2022

  • Gender
    • Women: 55.9%
    • Men: 44.1%
  • Ethnicity/Race
    • American Indian or Alaskan Native: 0.1%
    • Asian: 21.1%
    • Black: 5.3%
    • Hispanic: 24.8%
    • International: 9.8%
    • Multiracial (excl. Black or Hispanic): 2.7%
    • Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 0.1%
    • Unknown or Blank: 1.6%
    • White: 34.6%

*Black includes both “Black or African American Alone” and “Black or African American Multiracial (excluding Hispanic)”.
*Students are classified as “International” if they are not U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.


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Academics

  • Undergraduate degree programs: 156
  • Undergraduate fields of study: 170+
  • Graduate degree programs: 139 (237 including doctoral)
  • Courses: 12,400+
  • Study abroad programs: 400
  • Countries where study abroad is offered: 78
  • Fulbright Scholars: 112
  • Rhodes Scholars: 31
  • Marshall Scholars: 23
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Campus

  • Acres on main campus: 431
  • Libraries: 17
  • Volumes in UT Libraries: More than 10 million
  • Museums: 7
  • Works at the Blanton Museum of Art: 17,000+
  • Specimens in the Texas Memorial Museum collection: 5.7 million
  • Student organizations: 1,000+
  • Career centers: 15

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Research

  • No. 1 among U.S. universities in research financed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (2020)
  • Externally sponsored projects (2019-20): 7,198
  • Amount awarded in sponsored projects (2019-20): $796,694,594
  • Licensing revenues (past 10 fiscal years): $166.73 M
  • U.S. and international patents issued (past 10 fiscal years): 1,201
  • Companies created by UT entrepreneurs (past 10 fiscal years): 84 (60 of them in Texas)
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Athletics

  • National championships won since 1949: 62
  • Regular-season conference titles: 517
  • Olympic medals won by UT Austin student-athletes: 130
  • All-time All-Americans: 2,491 individuals who have earned 4,252 All-America honors
  • Student-Athlete Rhodes Scholars: 9

Page last updated: February 2, 2022

Sources: Intercollegiate Athletics, Texas Global, Office of Institutional Reporting, Research, and Information Systems, Office of Sponsored Projects and Office of Technology Commercialization.

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