Program Overview

University of Texas at Austin Programs

The University of Texas at Austin offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs across various colleges and schools.

Undergraduate Programs

• College of Natural Sciences: Offers programs in fields such as computer science, biology, chemistry, and physics.
  • Computer Science: The Bachelor of Science and Arts in Computer Science requires:
    1. Mathematics: Mathematics 408C or 408N and 408S, Mathematics 340L (or 341), and Statistics and Data Sciences 321 (or Mathematics 362K).
    2. Primary science: Computer Science 311 or 311H, 331 or 331H, 312, 314 or 314H, 429 or 429H, 439 or 439H, and 12 additional semester hours of approved upper-division computer science.
    3. Secondary science: Six semester hours of majors-level coursework chosen from a single field of study: biology, chemistry, or physics.
    4. At least 17 hours of computer science upper-division coursework must be completed in residence.
• Red McCombs School of Business: Offers programs in business administration, including accounting, finance, management, and marketing.
• Moody College of Communication: Offers programs in communication, journalism, and radio-television-film.
• College of Education: Offers programs in education, including athletic training, kinesiology, and special education.
• Cockrell School of Engineering: Offers programs in engineering, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, and electrical engineering.
• College of Fine Arts: Offers programs in fine arts, including art, music, and theatre.
• John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences: Offers programs in geosciences, including environmental science and geosystems engineering.
• School of Information: Offers programs in information, including information security and privacy.
• College of Liberal Arts: Offers programs in liberal arts, including African and African diaspora studies, American studies, and anthropology.
• College of Natural Sciences: Offers programs in natural sciences, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, and physics.
• School of Nursing: Offers programs in nursing, including a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• College of Pharmacy: Offers programs in pharmacy, including a Doctor of Pharmacy.
• Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs: Offers programs in public affairs, including a Bachelor of Arts in Public Affairs.
• Steve Hicks School of Social Work: Offers programs in social work, including a Bachelor of Social Work.

Graduate Programs

• Graduate Study: Offers programs in various fields, including architecture, business, communication, education, engineering, fine arts, geosciences, information, liberal arts, natural sciences, nursing, pharmacy, public affairs, and social work.
• Areas of Study: Offers programs in specific areas, including:
  • Architecture: Architecture, community and regional planning, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban design.
  • Business: Business administration, accounting, business analytics, energy management, finance, information, risk, and operations management, and marketing.
  • Communication: Advertising, audiology, communication studies, journalism and media, radio-television-film, and speech, language, and hearing sciences.
  • Education: Curriculum and instruction, educational leadership and policy, educational psychology, health behavior and health education, kinesiology, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
  • Engineering: Aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical and computer engineering, engineering management, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, and operations research and industrial engineering.
  • Fine Arts: Art education, art history, design, music, studio art, and theatre and dance.
  • Geosciences: Energy and earth resources, geological sciences, and geosystems engineering.
  • Information: Information security and privacy, and information studies.
  • Liberal Arts: African and African diaspora studies, American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, comparative literature, economics, English, French and Italian, geography, Germanic studies, government, history, human dimensions of organizations, humanities, health, and medicine, Iberian and Latin American languages and cultures, Latin American studies, linguistics, Mexican American and Latina/o studies, Middle Eastern languages and cultures, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, rhetoric and writing studies, Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies, sociology, and women’s and gender studies.
  • Natural Sciences: Artificial intelligence, astronomy, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, data science, ecology, evolution, and behavior, human development and family sciences, marine science, mathematics, microbiology, neuroscience, nutritional sciences, physics, plant biology, and statistics.
  • Nursing: Nursing, and stackable certificate programs.
  • Pharmacy: Pharmaceutical sciences, and translational science.
  • Public Affairs: Global policy studies, national security, public affairs, public leadership, and public policy.
  • Social Work: Social work, and courses.

Law School

• Introduction: The University of Texas Law School offers programs in law, including a Doctor of Jurisprudence, Master of Laws, and dual degree programs.
• Admission: Admission as a first-year student, declaration of intention to study law, admission as a transfer student, transfer to another law school, admission as a visiting student, and visiting status at another law school.
• Academic Policies and Procedures: Academic advising, honor system, quantity of work rule, changes in registration, class attendance, auditing a course, withdrawal, examinations, grades and minimum performance standards, honors, and graduation.
• Degrees: Doctor of Jurisprudence, Master of Laws, dual degree programs, combined JD/PhD programs, and graduate portfolio programs.
• Courses: First-year courses, advanced courses, research and seminar courses.

Medical School

• Introduction: The University of Texas Medical School offers programs in medicine, including a Doctor of Medicine.
• Admission: Application procedure, advanced standing, and requirements.
• Tuition and Fees: Refunds.
• Policies and Procedures: Academic policies, admission policies, communication policies, financial policies, health policies, mistreatment policies, pre-matriculation policies, and student conduct policies.
• Degrees: Distinctions, dual degrees.
• Curriculum: First year, second year, third year, fourth year.
• Courses: Dual degree courses.