University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin | |
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motto | Disciplina praesidium civitatis |
founding | 1883 |
place | Austin , Texas |
country | United States |
president | Gregory L. Fenves |
Students | 50,201 (2008) |
Employee | approx. 16,500 (2008) |
including professors | approx. 2,500 (2008) |
Annual budget | $ 1.7 billion (2008) |
Foundation assets | $ 15.6 billion (2008) |
Networks | Association of American Universities |
Website | www.utexas.edu |
The University of Texas at Austin , often shortened to University of Texas , UT or Texas , is the largest university in Texas and the main campus of the University of Texas System . It was founded in 1883 and is the fifth largest university in the USA with 50,201 students (2008). The UT Austin is one of the best state universities in the USA, a so-called Public Ivy . She is also a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900. UT Austin has produced a total of 12 Nobel Prize winners , most recently in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
The university consists of a 1.4 km² campus in an urban location as well as various branches such as the JJ Pickle Research Campus. UT Austin is also an outstanding center for academic research with an annual third-party budget of over 400 million US dollars.
Numerous European writers have held guest lectureships in Austin, for example Lars Gustafsson , Peter Rühmkorf and many others.
Organizational structure
The university consists of the following 17 units (colleges and schools), each of which is listed with the year of foundation:
- College of Liberal Arts (1883)
- College of Natural Sciences (1883)
- School of Law (1883)
- Cockrell School of Engineering (1894)
- College of Education (1905)
- Continuing Education (1909)
- Graduate Studies (1910)
- McCombs School of Business (1922)
- College of Pharmacy (1893 in Galveston, moved to Austin in 1927)
- College of Fine Arts (1938)
- School of Information (1948)
- School of Social Work (1950)
- School of Architecture (1951)
- College of Communication (1965)
- LBJ School of Public Affairs (1970)
- School of Nursing (1976)
- Jackson School of Geosciences (2005)
- School of Undergraduate Studies (2008)
Ranking
In their controversial university rankings, The Times Higher Education Supplement listed the university at 26th place in 2005, and 15th in 2004, but dropped to 51st in 2007. In 2019 and 2020, the University of Texas, Austin, ranks 38th and continues to be among the top 50 universities in the world . In the Shanghai Ranking , also Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University of Texas, Austin, ranks 40th in 2018 and 45th in 2019. Within the USA, the University of Texas, Austin, ranks 22nd (as of 2019) and thus belongs to the best universities in the country. The School of Law of the University of Texas finished in accordance with the relevant US News rankings in 2018 to 14th place and thus belonged to the T14 law schools , in 2019 and 2020 it occupies as in previous years, the place 16th
Sports
The UT Austin sports teams are the Longhorns . The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference .
Personalities
Current and former professors
Nobel Prize Winner
- Hermann Joseph Muller - Nobel Prize Physiology / Medicine, Geneticist
- Ilya Prigogine - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Physicist and Chemist
- Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize in Physics
More professors
- Edith Clarke (1883–1959), first female professor for electrical engineering at this university (from 1947)
- Bryce DeWitt - physicist
- Edsger W. Dijkstra - computer scientist
- Allen Emerson - Computer Scientist (also a UT graduate)
- Barbara Jordan - first South African American woman in the US House of Representatives
- Charles Willard Moore - architect
- Oran M. Roberts - Texas Governor 1879–1883
- Elliot Lake - astronaut
- John T. Tate - mathematician
- Michael Tye - Philosophy
Graduates
Nobel Prize Winner
- JM Coetzee - Nobel Prize in Literature
education
- Alan Lomax - musicologist and publicist
journalism
- Paul Begala - TV presenter and advisor to Bill Clinton
- Walter Cronkite - CBS News presenter, World War II reporter
- John Moore - photojournalist
- Will Potter - journalist and freedom activist
Arts and entertainment
- Wes Anderson - film director
- Steve Barton - actor
- Berkeley Breathed - comic book artist
- Felicia Day - actress, producer
- Farrah Fawcett - actress
- Kinky Friedman - writer, musician
- Richard Garriott - video game creator
- Peri Gilpin - actress
- Marcia Gay Harden - actress
- John Hillerman - actor
- Janis Joplin - musician
- Richard Linklater - film director
- Matthew McConaughey - actor
- Jayne Mansfield - actress
- Sterling Morrison - musician, founder of The Velvet Underground
- Rick Riordan - author
- Tex Ritter - actor
- Michelle Shocked - musician
- Bruce Sterling - science fiction writer
- Rip Torn - actor
- Eli Wallach - actor
- Owen Wilson - actor
- Renée Zellweger - actress
Politics and law
- Lloyd Bentsen - US House of Representatives (1948–1955), Senator (1970–1992), and Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton
- Jeb Bush - Florida Governor from 1999 to 2007
- Laura Bush - wife of George W. Bush
- Ramsey Clark - Attorney General
- Lloyd Doggett - Congressman for the 25th District of Texas
- Donald Louis Evans - former Secretary of Commerce under George W. Bush
- Tommy Franks - former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Central Command
- Mike Godwin - inventor of Godwin's law
- Lady Bird Johnson - wife of former American President Johnson
- Bill Owens - Governor of Colorado
- Ann Richards - Former Texas Governor
- Hans Sennholz - German economist and US university professor, important representative of the Austrian School of Economics
- Maman Sambo Sidikou - Foreign Minister Niger
- Fernando Belaúnde Terry - former President of Peru
Sports
- Walt Anderson - dentist and American football referee
- Lance Blanks - basketball player
- Bill Bradley - American football player
- Blake Brockermeyer - American football player
- Doug English - American football player
- Earl Campbell - American football player
- Roger Clemens - baseball player
- Ben Crenshaw - golfer
- Ian Crocker - Swimmer (Olympiad)
- Shane Dronett - American football player
- Kevin Durant - basketball player
- Ox Emerson - American football player
- Leah Fortune - Brazilian soccer player
- Ahmard Hall - American football player
- Brendan Hansen - Swimmer (Olympiad)
- Tom Kite - golfer
- Tom Landry - American football player and coach
- Bobby Layne - American football and baseball player
- Johnny Moore - basketball player
- Tommy Nobis - American football player
- Aaron Peirsol - Swimmer (Olympics)
- Nanceen Perry - Athlete (Olympiad)
- Lyle Sendlein - American football player
- Kyle Shanahan - American football coach
- Diron Talbert - American football player
- Don Talbert - American football player
- Earl Thomas - American football player
- Ricky Williams - American football player
- Vince Young - American football player
economy
- Michael Dell - Founder of Dell Computer Company (no degree)
- David Geffen - music and film producer
- Henning Kreke - CEO of Douglas Holding
Science and technology
- Alan Bean - astronaut
- John Hanke - co-developer of Google Earth and Google Maps , founder of Niantic
- Stephanie Wilson - astronaut
Others
- Jenna Bush - daughter of George W. Bush
- Yuri Slezkine - historian
- Charles Whitman - gunman
Web links
- The University of Texas (English)
- The University of Texas Athletics (English)
- Texas Exes - The University of Texas Alumni Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ various: List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation II. Wikipedia, November 10, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Enrollment & Essentials of the University of Texas at Austin
- ↑ http://www.paked.net/higher_education/rankings/times_rankings.htm
- ^ Times Higher Education: World University Ranking. Times Higher Education, October 11, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities: University Ranking. In: Academic Ranking of World Universities. Academic Ranking of World Universities, October 11, 2019, accessed on October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Top Universities: Top 100 Universities USA Ranking. In: Top Universities. October 11, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Above the Law: Top 14 Law Schools. In: Above the Law. Above the Law, October 25, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ US News: Best Law Schools ranked in 2020. In: US News. US News, October 25, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ US News: School of Law Ranking. In: US News. US News, October 25, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 .
Coordinates: 30 ° 17 ′ 10.1 ″ N , 97 ° 44 ′ 21.9 ″ W.