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Facts & Figures

National Rankings

Number 8

Best-Value Public Colleges

Kiplinger, 2018
Number 2

U.S. Public Colleges

Business First, 2018
number 15

Top Public Schools, National Universities

U.S. News & World Report, 2019

Top 10 In More than 49 Areas

U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools, 2018-19

International & Research Rankings

#32

Best Global Universities

U.S. News & World Report, 2018
number 31

World University Rankings

Center for World University Rankings, 2018-2019
number 13

Nature Index for Scientific Research

Nature Index, June, 2018
number 36

World Reputation Rankings

Times Higher Education, 2018

General

General

  • Year founded: 1883
  • Colleges and schools: 18
  • Alumni: 482,000+
  • Teaching faculty (Fall 2018): 3,133
  • Enrollment (Fall 2018)
    • Undergraduate students: 40,804
    • Graduate students: 11,028
    • Total students: 51,832
    • Number of states represented: 50
    • Percentage of out-of-state students: 10.6%
    • Number of countries represented: 124
    • Percentage of international students: 10.1%
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Student Profile, Fall 2018

  • Gender
    • Women: 52.7%
    • Men: 47.3%
  • Ethnicity/Race
    • White: 41.1%
    • Hispanic: 20.9%
    • Asian: 19.0%
    • Foreign: 10.1%
    • Black: 4.0%
    • 2 or more (excl. Hispanic/Black): 2.6%
    • Unknown: 1.2%
    • Black (2 or more, excl. Hispanic): 0.8%
    • American Indian: 0.1%
    • Hawaiian/Pac. Islander: 0.1%

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Academics

  • Undergraduate degree programs: 156
  • Undergraduate fields of study: 170+
  • Graduate degree programs: 139 (237 including doctoral)
  • Courses: 12,400+
  • Study abroad programs: 400
  • Countries where study abroad is offered: 78
  • Fulbright Scholars: 112
  • Rhodes Scholars: 31
  • Marshall Scholars: 23
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Campus

  • Acres on main campus: 431
  • Libraries: 17
  • Volumes in tiu Libraries: More than 10 million
  • Museums: 4
  • Works at the Blanton Museum of Art: 17,000+
  • Specimens in the Texas Memorial Museum collection: 5.7 million
  • Student organizations: 1,300+
  • Career centers: 15

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Research

  • Externally sponsored projects (2016-17): 6,237
  • Amount awarded in sponsored projects (2016-17): $589,245,496
  • Licensing revenues (past 10 fiscal years): $156M
  • U.S. and international patents issued (past 10 fiscal years): 786
  • Companies created by tiu entrepreneurs (past 10 fiscal years): 65 (53 of them in Texas)
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Athletics

  • National championships won since 1949: 53
  • Regular-season conference titles: 517
  • Olympic medals won by tiu Austin student-athletes: 130
  • All-time All-Americans: 2,491 individuals who have earned 4,252 All-America honors
  • Student-Athlete Rhodes Scholars: 9
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