What your tuition makes possible
New degree programs
Since 2004 UT Dallas has launched many new academic programs to make sure our students are competitive after graduation.
Emerging Media and Communications
This program addresses evolving forms of media and communications, including web-based writing and content development.
Computer Engineering
This degree trains computer engineers to satisfy the design and development needs of both local and state industry, as well as prepares them to be innovators and policy makers.
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials science and engineering involves the study of advanced materials, including metals and their composites, polymers, silicon and bio-material, and their possible uses in new and sophisticated applications.
Geospatial Information Sciences
UT Dallas offers one of the nation's first doctorate degrees in geospatial information sciences – an important, fast-growing new field that melds data collection, mapmaking and spatial analysis.
Finance
The new bachelor of science in finance degree is designed to train students in both the theoretical and practical aspects of financial decision making.
Biotechnology
One of the first such degrees offered by any university in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, biotechnology is “applied biology” – using living organisms to make or modify products, run processes or improve plants and animals.
Electrical Engineering and MBA
Through a joint program, students are able to earn a master of science in electrical engineering degree and a master of business administration degree.
Global Leadership EMBA
UT Dallas has launched three new post-graduate certificate programs designed to help participants learn, understand and then lead—at the global level—in the disciplines of market development, strategy, technology-based operations and human resources.
Quality faculty and staff
Our faculty includes Nobel laureates, members of the national academies and their teams of researchers.
Nobel Laureate Dr. Russell Hulse
UT Dallas President Dr. David E. Daniel
Physicist Dr. Myron Salamon
Nanotechnology expert Dr. Ray Baughman
Geographer Dr. Brian Berry
Dr. Robert S. Nelsen, associate provost, professor of literary studies, creative writing teacher and author
Dr. Marion Underwood, associate professor of psychology
Dr. Gregory S. Thielemann, head of the Center for the Study of Texas Politics
Dr. Paul E. Tracy, founder of the Crime and Justice Studies Program
State-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories
Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory
The Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
UT Dallas' School of Management
Math, Science, Engineering Education Building
Three new buildings: Natural Science and Engineering Research; Center for BrainHealth; and School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Research programs that enrich the student learning experience
Highly valued degrees
UT Dallas graduates have high acceptance rates for medical school and other post-graduate programs. Our alumni also go on to prominence:
Texas Rep. Jerry Madden
Astronaut Dr. James F. Reilly II
District Judge Mary Murphy
James Von Ehr, founder and CEO of Zyvex
Alan Halliburton, Halliburton Investor Relations
Television news anchor Tracy Rowlett
Sam Gilliland, chairman and CEO of travel industry giant Sabre Holdings
Dipak C. Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Scientific breakthroughs
UT Dallas Scientists Win Two Awards For Nanotechnology Breakthroughs
UT Dallas Nanotechnologists Demonstrate Artificial Muscles Powered by Highly Energetic Fuels
NASA-sponsored mission to discover the role of ion-neutral interactions in the generation of small and large-scale electric fields in the Earth's upper atmosphere
UT Dallas Space Scientist Hoffman on Team Selected by NASA for 2007 Unmanned Mars Mission
Geoscientists from Israel, Texas Offer Theory On Origin of Deepest Point on Earth's Surface
Updated: February 19, 2007
