The University of Texas at Austin, informally UT
Austin, UT, University of Texas, or Texas in sports
contexts, is a public research university and the flagship institution of The
University of Texas System. Founded in 1883 as "The University of
Texas," its campus is located in Austin—approximately 1 mile
(1,600 m) from the Texas State Capitol. The institution has the fifth-largest
single-campus enrollment in the nation, with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate
students and over 24,000 faculty and staff. The university has been labeled one
of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered to
provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.
UT Austin was inducted into the American
Association of Universities in 1929, becoming only the third university in
the American South to be elected. It is a major center for academic
research, with research expenditures exceeding $550 million for the 2013–2014
school years. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries,
including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Blanton
Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J.
J. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Among
university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize,
the Wolf Prize, the Emmy Award, and the National Medal of Science, as
well as many other awards.
UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas
Longhorns and are members of the Big 12 Conference. Its Longhorn
Network is unique in that it is the only sports network featuring the
college sports of a single university. The Longhorns have won four NCAA
Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National
Baseball Championships and has claimed more titles in men's and women's sports
than any other school in the Big 12 since the league was founded in 1996.
Current and former UT Austin athletes have won 130 Olympic medals, including 14
in Beijing in 2008 and 13 in London in 2012. The university
was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports
College" in 2002.
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