Student Experience

Located at the northeast corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe streets, the $54.8 million Belo Center provides interactive classrooms and meeting space for more than 4,200 students in the college and houses the adjacent KUT Public Media Studios. The Belo Center includes lecture halls, auditoriums, student offices and meeting rooms, as well as spaces for…

New students entering the fall semester at The University of Texas at Austin will be guests of honor during the traditional Gone To Texas welcoming ceremony at 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 28. The event will feature greetings from President Bill Powers and an event finale by the Texas Longhorn Band.

The University of Texas of Austin is No. 35 in the world, according to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

University officials will welcome incoming students and their parents at the annual Mooov-In event while hundreds of volunteers help the students move into campus residence halls.

http://youtu.be/itO9IXiH4Nk Take an aerial view of the Forty Acres in this helicopter flyover of campus. Go to YouTube to share the video http://youtu.be/itO9IXiH4Nk.

In this video, College of Liberal Arts student Maggie Gunn talks about research opportunities at UT.

Numerous amicus briefs are being filed with the United States Supreme Court today in support of The University of Texas at Austin’s holistic admissions process, which looks at an applicant’s race and ethnicity among many other factors.

Today, the University of Texas at Austin filed its brief to the United States Supreme Court as respondent in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. The university’s brief states that “UT has learned through experience that diversity has invaluable educational benefits,” and “better prepares students to become the next generation of…

University of Texas at Austin experts are available to discuss a range of topics related to the London Olympics, from the physical performance of elite athletes to the organization and management of a large-scale international sports event.  

The University of Texas at Austin Police Department, along with agents from the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force, are investigating anonymous hoax phone calls being made to parents and grandparents of students, claiming their children have been kidnapped, injured, or need medical attention.

The Center for World University Rankings has ranked The University of Texas at Austin No. 30 in its inaugural list of the world’s top 100 universities.