Fast Facts
Get to know UT Dallas, a growing public research university with 160 degree programs and 30,139 students. Download the UTD Fast Facts Quick Reference Guide (pdf).
Enrollment
30,139 students enrolled in fall 2025.
76% undergraduate; 24% graduate
4,933 freshmen, including 176 National Merit Scholars
Students from 105+ countries
Most students come from Texas, California, Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Washington.
83% are full-time students, 17% are part-time
Oldest student is 84, youngest is 15, average age is 21 (average age is for the entire student body, not just undergrads)
29% of the undergraduate population is made up of transfer students
Academics
160 academic programs across seven schools
- 67 bachelor’s degree programs
- 62 master’s degree programs
- 30 PhD programs
- 1 professional doctorate program (audiology)
Student-to-faculty ratio: 23:1
Four-year graduation rate: 63% (#3 in Texas among public universities)
Six-year graduation rate: 79%
90% of freshmen returned
Cost
61% of UTD graduating seniors have no student debt compared to 49% public statewide and 51% public nationwide.
62% of our undergraduate students receive some form of need- or merit-based financial aid.
Princeton Review ranks UT Dallas #3 Best Value Public Colleges in Texas for 2025.
Student Life
400+ student organizations, 26 fraternity and sorority chapters
99,649 hours of student volunteerism (2025)
UT Dallas earned a STARS Gold ranking for sustainability, achieved Bicycle Friendly University bronze recognition, and has Bee Campus USA and Tree Campus USA certifications.
Sports
Mascot: Temoc (Comet spelled backward)
NCAA Division II Lone Star Conference with varsity teams in men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, golf, tennis, track and field, cross country, men’s baseball, women’s volleyball, and women’s softball.
15 conference titles in the past five years
Location
Dallas ranks in the top 10 best-performing large cities by the Milken Institute (2024).
Dallas-Fort Worth is home to:
- 2 airports
- 6 professional sports teams
- 21+ Fortune 500 companies, all of which have hired UT Dallas graduates.
- The Dallas-Irving-Plano area topped all U.S. markets for the greatest job gains in the last five years. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
What We’re Known For
Nationally-ranked programs in STEM, management, liberal arts and social sciences majors.
Nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship. 489 startups have been incorporated over the past 3 years.
Since 1996, the UT Dallas Chess team has won four President’s Cup titles and has qualified for this national event 20 times out of 24. Our chess program also has recruited over 30 scholars with a Grandmaster title, a lifetime distinction held by only 2,000 individuals worldwide.
Esports. The UTD varsity esports program is ranked #1 in Texas and top 10 in the nation. (BestColleges.com)
Engaged alumni. We have over 150,000 living alumni who have a campus home at the 15,000-square-foot Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center.
Famous Alumnus: Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar PhD’77 came to the U.S. after serving as a physician in Turkey. As a graduate student at the University, he aimed to learn more about DNA repair and studied under the late Dr. Claud Stanley Rupert, who was a pioneer in the field. In 2015, Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first Nobel-winning alum from UT Dallas. The researcher was also the recipient of the University’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.