Student Experience

UT Austin will welcome more than 7,400 students from 46 states, 51 countries and six continents to the Forty Acres during “Mooov-In.”

Summer is winding down, kickoff is getting closer and students are returning to the Forty Acres for the start of classes August 26. Take a look at how Longhorns are getting ready for the school year, and make plans to attend our signature Longhorn Welcome events.

UT Austin is ranked No. 37 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which evaluates more than 1,200 international higher education institutions.

UT Austin will not be relocating the statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson on Saturday, Aug. 15, as initially planned.

The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis will be relocated from the Main Mall at UT Austin to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, where it will become part of a new educational exhibit, university President Gregory L. Fenves announced Aug. 13.

The Task Force on Historical Representation of Statuary at UT Austin delivered its report to President Gregory L. Fenves on Aug. 10.

Since October 2014, eight construction cranes have towered over the UT’s most intense construction effort in decades: the creation of Dell Medical School and the medical district that will surround it. Get a view from the top.

UT Austin and the government of Mexico have renewed and expanded an agreement that will deepen academic relations between the two.

UT Austin has completed the agreement that authorizes Gene Marsh, a national expert on collegiate athletics and academic integrity, to review Texas Athletics’ Student Services division.

Two public forums will gather comment on the historical representation of the statuary on the Main Mall at UT Austin.