The University of Texas at Austin is public research university which is one of the largest the United States and is the largest institution of The University of Texas System. It was founded in 1883, and since then, it has grown from a single building, eight teachers, two departments and 221 students to a 350-acre main campus with 17 colleges and schools, about 24,000 faculty and staff, and more than 50,000 students. Now, the domain of the university is far and wide with satellite campuses and research centers across Texas, including the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, the Marine Science Institute, the McDonald Observatory, the Montopolis Research Center and the Brackenridge tract. The statistic of enrollment figures up to 11,000 students with more than 3500 master's and docor's degree awarded annualy. Moreover, the Graduate School is a national pioneer with more than 8,700 bachelorâ??s degrees awarded every year in more than 170 fields of study and 100 majors. Being an institute with the most diverse students in Texas, it is a national leader in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded to minority students.
The University of Texas at Austin is accredited by the Commission on Colleges (COC) of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the regional accrediting organization for eleven states in the southeastern United States, including Texas. Read more about the university's accreditation.
