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Welcome to The University of Texas at Dallas, a young, dynamic research institution on the cutting edge of science, technology, medicine, business and the arts. Born at the dawn of the information age, UT Dallas helped pioneer new fields in science and technology and created sought-after degree programs that did not exist a generation ago. These include geospatial information science, cognitive sciences, emerging media and communications, nanotechnology and materials science, among others. It is host to seven schools, offers an array of interdisciplinary degree programs and features a student population as diverse as its areas of study. The University has a unique heritage born of its pioneering spirit. Located in the center of one of the most dynamic economic and demographic regions of the nation, UT Dallas owes its existence to three visionaries, Cecil Green, J. Erik Jonsson and Eugene McDermott, who deeply valued education and entrepreneurial activity.
These men, who also founded Texas Instruments, found themselves importing talent from outside the state while the region’s brightest young people pursued education elsewhere. Having identified the need, the founders took action to serve both their enterprise and Texas by establishing the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest in 1961. It was renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in 1967, and, in 1969, the founders transferred the assets of SCAS to the State of Texas, and then-Governor Preston Smith signed the bill establishing UT Dallas. By law, the University offered only graduate degrees until 1975. In 1990, UT Dallas admitted its first freshman class. The transition from a graduate research facility to a university with an emphasis on engineering, mathematics, the sciences and management has been facilitated by the excellence of the UT Dallas faculty. Among them are four members of the National Academies — Dr. Ray Baughman, Dr. David Daniel, Dr. Brian Berry and Dr. Don Shaw — and Nobel laureate, Dr. Russell Hulse. Other Nobel laureates have included the late Dr. Polykarp Kusch and the late Dr. Alan G. MacDiarmid. In recent years, the University’s teaching mission has expanded, its external research funding nearly doubled, its program offerings grew and its reputation has gained notice nationally. The student body has also grown, even as quantitative markers of excellence — average entering SAT scores, graduation rates, numbers of distinguished scholarship holders and national merit scholarship winners — have moved up.  UT Dallas has a unique past, and its aspirations to become a top national research university promise an even more remarkable future. For more information about UT Dallas, please visit these links:
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