University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, artlessly UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, or Texas in sports contexts, is really a accessible analysis university and the flagship academy of The University of Texas System.Founded in 1883 as "The University of Texas," its campus is amid in Austin approximately 1 mile (1,600 m) from your Texas State Capitol. The academy contains the fifth-largest single-campus acceptance in america, with over 50,000 undergraduate and alum acceptance and over 24,000 adroitness and staff.

The university may be labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a about adjourned university advised as accouterments an excellent of apprenticeship commensurable to those from the Ivy League.

UT Austin was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929, acceptable alone the third university in the American South to become elected. It's a above centermost for bookish research, with analysis expenditures beyond $550 actor for the  academy year. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, such as Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum along with the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates assorted abetting analysis facilities, including the J. J. Pickle Analysis Campus along with the McDonald Observatory. Among university adroitness are recipients in the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, as well as the National Medal of Science, as able-bodied as abounding added awards.

UT Austin apprentice athletes attempt since the Texas Longhorns and therefore are associates in the Big 12 Conference. Its Longhorn Arrangement differs in that it is the alone sports arrangement featuring the academy sports of your individual university. The Longhorns accept won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships and has claimed added titles in men's and women's sports than any added academy in the Big 12 back the alliance was founded in 1996.