The University of Texas at Dallas Profile

U.T. Dallas provides outstanding education and research programs from the freshman through Ph.D. level and ranks among the top Texas public institutions in terms of student achievement and faculty research. Kiplinger's Personal Finance and U.S. News and World Report rank U.T. Dallas among the top three public universities in Texas.

Mission

The mission of The University of Texas at Dallas is to provide Texas and the nation with the benefits of educational and research programs of the highest quality. These programs address the multi-dimensional needs of a dynamic modern society driven by the development, diffusion, understanding and management of advanced technology.

History

U.T. Dallas was founded in 1969 when civic and industrial leaders Cecil Green, Erik Jonsson and Eugene McDermott, the founders of Texas Instruments, gave the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies to the State of Texas. U.T. Dallas grew in a top-down manner: it first offered doctorate and master's degrees before accepting junior and senior undergraduate students in 1975. In 1990, U.T. Dallas enrolled its first freshman class, offering a new opportunity for Texas high school seniors to study in a rigorous and fulfilling academic environment. U.T. Dallas owns approximately 500 acres located 18 miles north of Downtown Dallas, and another 468 acres is devoted to Synergy Park; an industrial park adjacent to campus.

Faculty

U.T. Dallas has 347 full-time tenured or tenure track faculty members. The faculty stresses both teaching and research, and it includes members of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as well as a fellow of both the IEEE in Electrical Engineering and ACM in Computer Science.

Many faculty work in concert with local business and industry, particularly the more than 500 high technology companies near the campus.

Students

The quality of U.T. Dallas students can be seen in their accomplishments:

  • The U.T. Dallas freshman class regularly ranks first or second in terms of average SAT scores among Texas public universities;
  • The freshman class has 17 National Merit Scholars in a class of 1,058;
  • The U.T. Dallas Chess, Destination Imagination, College Bowl and Debate teams have also received national or international recognition in academic competitions.

Students at U.T. Dallas range from freshmen right out of high school to transfer students from community colleges to professionals earning advanced degrees or keeping abreast of knowledge in their area of work to scholars extending the limits of knowledge in their chosen field of study.

Enrollment Fall 2007:

  • 14,556 Students
  • Undergraduate 9,266
  • Graduate 5,290
  • Female 6,613
  • Male 7,943
  • Anglo 7,499
  • African American 948
  • Asian American 2,655
  • Hispanic 1,309
  • Native American 67
  • Foreign 2,094

Degrees Offered

The University offers the following courses of study in the seven schools:

School of Arts and Humanities

  • Aesthetic Studies (M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D.)
  • Art and Performance (B.A.)*
  • Arts and Humanities (B.A.)*
  • Arts and Technology (B.A., M.A., M.F.A.)
  • Historical Studies (B.A.)*
  • History (M.A.)
  • History of Ideas (M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D.)
  • Humanities (M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D.)
  • Literary Studies (B.A.)*
  • Studies in Literature (M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D.)

School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences

  • Applied Cognition and Neuroscience (M.S.)
  • Audiology (Au.D.)
  • Child Learning and Development (B.S.)
  • Cognition and Neuroscience (Ph.D.)
  • Cognitive Science (B.S.)*
  • Communication Disorders (M.S.)
  • Communication Sciences and Disorders (Ph.D.)
  • Evaluation Research (Certificate)
  • Human Development and Early Childhood Disorders (M.S.)
  • Neuroscience (B.S.)*
  • Psychology (B.A.)*
  • Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (B.S.)*

School of Economics, Political and Policy Sciences

  • Applied Economics (M.S.)
  • Applied Sociology (M.A., M.S.)
  • Crime and Justice Analysis (Certificate)
  • Criminology (B.A.)
  • Economic and Demographic Data Analysis (Certificate)
  • Economics (B.S., B.A., Ph.D.)*
  • Evaluation Research (Certificate)
  • Financial Economics (Certificate)
  • Geographic Information Sciences (M.S.)
  • Geographic Information Systems (Certificate)
  • Geography (B.A.)*
  • Geospatial Information Sciences (Ph.D.)
  • Government and Politics (B.A.)*
  • International Political Economy (B.A., B.S.)
  • Local Government Management (Certificate)
  • Non-Profit Management (Certificate)
  • Political Science (B.A., Ph.D.)
  • Public Affairs (B.S., M.P.A., Ph.D.)*
  • Public Policy and Political Economy (Ph.D.)
  • Sociology (B.A.)*

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

  • Computer Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Computer Science (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)*
  • Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., Ph.D.)*
  • Geospatial Information Sciences (Ph.D.)
  • Materials Science and Engineering (Ph.D.)
  • Software Engineering (B.S., Ph.D.)
  • Telecommunications Engineering (B.S.T.E., M.S.T.E., Ph.D.)

School of General Studies

  • American Studies (B.A.)
  • Gender Studies (B.A.)
  • Interdiscipinary Studies (B.S., B.A., M.A.)
  • Teacher Certification Program

School of Management

  • Accounting and Information Management (B.S., M.S.)*
  • Accounting and Information Systems (M.S.)
  • Business Administration (B.S., M.B.A.)*
  • Business Administration and Biology (Double Major) (B.S.)
  • Finance (B.S.)
  • Global Management (Certificate)
  • Information Technology and Management (M.S.)
  • International Management Studies (M.A., Ph.D.)
  • Management and Administrative Sciences (M.S.)
  • Management Science (Ph.D.)
  • Medical Management (M.S., Certificate)
  • Professional Coaching (Certificate)
  • Project Management (Certificate)
  • Supply Chain Management (Certificate)

School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

  • Applied Physics (Ph.D.)
  • Biochemistry (B.S.)
  • Biology (B.S., B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)*
  • Biology and Business Administration (Double Major) (B.A., B.S.)
  • Biology and Criminology (Double Major) (B.A., B.S.)
  • Biotechnology (Ph.D.)
  • Chemistry (B.S., B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)*
  • Geosciences (B.S., B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Geospatial Information Sciences (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Mathematical Sciences (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)* with undergraduate majors in:
    - Applied Mathematics
    - Statistics
    - Mathematical Sciences
  • Mathematics Education (M.A.T.)
  • Molecular and Cell Biology (M.S., Ph.D.)
  • Molecular Biology (B.S.)
  • Molecular Biology and Business Administration (Double Major) (B.S.)
  • Molecular Biology and Criminology (Double Major) (B.S.)
  • Physics (B.S., B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)*
  • Remote Sensing (Certificate)
  • Science Education (M.A.T.)
  • Teacher Education and Certification Program for Teaching

* A Degree program followed by an asterisk can be used in an accelerated baccalaureate/master's degree.