About University of Texas Dallas

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public the academy with its main campus in Richardson, Texas. It is the largest public college circles in the Dallas Place and the northernmost campus of the University of Texas system. It was initially founded as a private research arm of Texas Instruments.

While the main campus is officially below the city jurisdiction of Richardson, one-third of it is within the borders of Dallas County and it has an on-campus DART train station on the Silver Line (which will be completed in 2022). UT Dallas furthermore operates several locations in downtown Dallas – this includes the Crow Art Museum in the Arts District as well as several buildings in the Medical District adjoining UT Southwestern: the Center for BrainHealth, the Callier Center, and the extra Translational Biomedical Engineering and Sciences building (under construction).

The young college circles has been characterized by rushed growth in research output and its competitive undergraduate admissions policies in the past its inception. Less than 47 years after its founding, the Carnegie Foundation had classified the academic circles as a doctoral research the academy with “Highest Research Activity”—faster than any other assistant professor in Texas. The the academy is joined with four Nobel Prizes, and has members of the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Engineering on its faculty. Research projects enhance the areas of Space Science, Bioengineering, Cybersecurity, Nanotechnology, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

The University of Texas at Dallas offers exceeding 140 academic programs across its eight schools and hosts over 50 research centers and institutes. From July 2018 to June 2019, the academic circles granted 4,225 bachelor’s degrees, 3,430 master’s degrees, and 238 PhDs for a sum of 7,893 degrees.

The college has a Division III athletics program in the American Southwest Conference and fields 14 intercollegiate teams including a nationally qualified co-ed varsity Esports program. The academic circles recruits worldwide for its Top 4 collegiate chess team and has an award-winning debate team.

Richardson is a city in Dallas and Collin counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2019 American Community Survey, the city had a total population of 121,323. Richardson is an thriving inner suburb of Dallas. It is home to the University of Texas at Dallas and the Telecom Corridor, with a tall concentration of telecommunications companies. More than 5,000 businesses have operations within Richardson’s 28 square miles (73 km2), including many of the world’s largest telecommunications and networking companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Cisco Systems, Samsung, ZTE, MetroPCS, Texas Instruments, Qorvo, and Fujitsu. Richardson’s largest employment base is provided by the insurance industry, with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas’s headquarters, a regional hub for GEICO, regional offices for United Healthcare, and one of State Farm Insurance’s three national regional hubs located in the community.