UT rocks. Look at our rankings. Look at our endowment. Look at fucking amazing Austin is. If you're an in-stater, it's a no-brainer. If you can even get in at this point.
I had a great time, met lots of diverse, interesting people, had both conservative and liberal professors, took some fascinating classes. I am moving back to Austin next month, actually.
Go for it!!!
Stats from
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/pubs/facts/index.phpThe University of Texas at Austin’s main campus covers more than 350 acres. The 307-foot-tall University of Texas Tower is the university’s most distinguished landmark. In addition, the university operates the J. J. Pickle Research Campus, the Brackenridge tract and the Montopolis Research Center, all in the Austin area.
The university’s research facilities, including the Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, the McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis and the Bee Cave Research
The university has one of the largest single-campus enrollments in the nation, including students from all 254 counties in Texas, all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. The faculty at The University of Texas at Austin is composed of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur fellows and hundreds of members of prestigious academic and scientific organizations.
In the academic arena, the university has one of the largest graduate schools in the nation with more than 10,000 students and more than 170 graduate degree programs. It also is the national leader in the number of master’s and doctor’s degrees awarded annually.
The University of Texas at Austin’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offer some of the world’s greatest collections of artifacts, art, manuscripts, photographs, musical recordings and historical documents.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.
The university has consistently ranked among the top 10 research libraries in the nation. The 17 libraries on The University of Texas
President: William Powers Jr.
Founded: 1883
Degrees awarded yearly: 11,000
Enrollment: 50,000
Continuing education enrollment: 300,000 yearly
Total yearly costs: $13,000
(Including tuition and housing)
Employees: 3,000 faculty, 18,000 staff members
Registered student organizations: 900
Graduate/undergraduate:
11,000 graduate/39,000 undergraduate
Number of Colleges: 16
Total yearly budget: $1.3 billion
Research funding: $300 million
Museums and libraries: 7 museums and 17 libraries
Alumni: 450,000
And, from
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200411/nr_ranking041108.htmlUT Austin wins 15th place in
world list of 200 best universities
November 8, 2004
AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin is the 15th-best university in the world, according to a new global ranking produced by The Times of London newspaper in its Nov. 5 edition.
Among U.S. public universities, only the University of California at Berkeley, which is listed second in the world, ranked higher than UT Austin.
American institutions occupied seven of the top 10 places, with Oxford and Cambridge universities the highest-ranked outside the United States. UT Austin finished ninth among the top 10 North American public and private universities.
The rankings are based on the amount of cited research produced by faculty members, the ratio of faculty to student numbers, a university’s success in attracting foreign students and in attracting internationally renowned academics.
An additional factor in the rankings is the findings from a previous Times Higher Education Supplement survey in which 1,300 academics in 88 countries were asked to name the best institutions in the fields they felt knowledgeable about.
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