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The University of
Texas at Austin (informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, or Texas in
sports context) is a non private research-based research university and the
flagship institution of The University of Texas System in United States of
America. It was founded in 1883 as
"The University of Texas," its campus is located in
Austin—approximately 1 mile (1,600 m) from the Texas State Capitol. The
institution has the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation, with
over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and over 24,000 faculty and
staff. The university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a
publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education
comparable to those of the Ivy League.
UT Austin joined into the American Association of
Universities in 1929, becoming only the third university in the American South
to be elected. It is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures
exceeding $550 million for the 2013–2014 school year. The university houses
seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Library and Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various
auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the
McDonald Observatory. Among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel
Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Emmy Award, and the National Medal
of Science, as well as many other awards.
UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns
and are members of the Big 12 Conference. Its Longhorn Network is unique in
that it is the only sports network featuring the college sports of a single
university. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football
Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships and has
claimed more titles in men's and women's sports than any other school in the
Big 12 since the league was founded in 1996. Current and former UT Austin athletes
have won 130 Olympic medals, including 14 in Beijing in 2008 and 13 in London
in 2012. The university was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's
Best Sports College" in 2002.
Academics:
The University of Texas at Austin offers more than 100 undergraduate
and 170 graduate degrees. In the 2009–2010 academic year, the university
awarded a total of 13,215 degrees: 67.7% bachelor's degrees, 22.0% master's
degrees, 6.4% doctoral degrees, and 3.9% Professional degrees.
In addition, the university has eight honors programs that
span a variety of academic fields: Liberal Arts Honors, the Business Honors
Program, the Turing Scholars Program in Computer Science, Engineering Honors,
the Dean's Scholars Program in Natural Sciences, the Health Science Scholars
Program in Natural Sciences, the Polymathic Scholars Program in Natural
Sciences, and the interdisciplinary Plan II Honors program. The university also
offers innovative programs for promoting academic excellence and leadership
development such as the Freshman Research Initiative and Texas
Interdisciplinary Plan.
The University has been operating online college degrees for long time to satisfy global demand of quality education in reasonable cost.
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