University of North Texas

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University of North Texas
University of North Texas seal.png
Former names
Texas Normal College and
Teacher Training Institute
(1890�1894)
North Texas Normal College
(1894�1901)
North Texas State Normal College
(1901�1923)
North Texas State Teachers College
(1923�1949)
North Texas State College
(1949�1961)
North Texas State University
(1961�1988)
Type Flagship state university[1]
Established 1890
Academic affiliations
APLU[2]
Phi Kappa Phi[3]
URA
SACS[4]
ORAU
Endowment $192 million[5]
Budget $865,343,896[6]
Chairman Brint Ryan
Chancellor Lesa Roe[7]
President Neal Smatresk
Provost Jennifer Cowley
Academic staff
1,063 full-time
145 part-time
10 modified services
382 teaching fellows
548 teaching assistants[6]
Students 38,454 (Fall 2018)[8]
Undergraduates 31,405 (Fall 2017)[8]
Postgraduates 6,676 (Fall 2017)[8]
Location Denton, Texas, U.S.
33�12'35?N 97�9'0?WCoordinates: 33�12'35?N 97�9'0?W
Campus University town;[9][10] 1,200 acres (4.9 km2)[11]
Colors Green, White and Black[12]

Nickname Mean Green

Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I FBS� Conference USA
Mascot Scrappy the Eagle
Website www.unt.edu
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The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton,
Texas. Eleven colleges, two schools, an early admissions math and science academy
for exceptional high-school-age students from across the state, and a library
system comprise the university core. Its research is driven by about 38 doctoral
degree programs. North Texas was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private
teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later.[13]
UNT is the flagship institution of the University of North Texas System, which
includes additional universities in Dallas and Fort Worth. UNT also has a satellite
campus in Frisco.

Contents
1 Population, economic setting, and major location developments
2 Official designations
3 Enrollment
4 Academics
4.1 College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
4.2 College of Science
4.3 College of Business (G. Brint Ryan College of Business)
4.4 College of Education
4.5 College of Engineering
4.6 College of Information
4.7 College of Merchandising, Hospitality, and Tourism
4.8 College of Music
4.9 College of Health and Public Service
4.10 College of Visual Arts and Design
4.11 Honors College
4.12 Mayborn School of Journalism
4.13 Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
4.14 Toulouse Graduate School
4.15 Libraries
4.16 The Intensive English Language Institute (IELI)
5 Student life
5.1 Residential life
5.2 Student residence halls
5.3 Pohl Recreation Center
5.4 Social Greek organizations
6 Traditions
6.1 Primary colors
6.2 Mascot
6.3 Nickname for intercollegiate athletics
6.4 Fight song
6.5 Alma mater
6.6 Other traditions
7 Broadcast, print, and digital media
7.1 Broadcast
7.2 Student publications
8 Intercollegiate athletics
9 Arts in the community
10 Notable alumni
10.1 Music
10.2 Intercollegiate and pro sports
10.3 Sports entertainment
10.4 Government and public service
10.5 Broadcast media and entertainment
10.6 Science and research
10.7 Primary and secondary education
10.8 Higher education
10.9 Architecture
10.10 Business and commerce
10.11 Humanities
11 Sustainability
12 Further reading
13 References
14 External links
Population, economic setting, and major location developments
The Denton campus is located in the largest populated region of Texas under two
categories defined by the U.S. Census: (i) core based statistical area (CBSA;
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington�4th largest, nationally) and (ii) combined statistical
area (CSA; Dallas-Fort Worth�7th largest, nationally). From an economic
perspective, the Denton campus lies within the Dallas-Fort Worth�Arlington
metropolitan area, as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which as
of 2011, had the sixth highest GDP (aka gross metropolitan product) of the nation's
366 metropolitan areas.[14] As a state, Texas, as of 2011, had the second highest
GDP in the country.[15]

On behalf of the state, the university, in its civic advocacy for the state,
prevailed with three new-location, capital-intensive expansions over the last
forty-three years.

The university acquired in 1975 and subsequently developed a medical school in Fort
Worth
The university created a campus in South Dallas in 2000
The university laid the groundwork for establishing the first and only public law
school in the region
In 1981, the university spun off its new medical school as its own independent
institution under the UNT Board of Regents.[16] In 2009, the University of North
Texas at Dallas became its own independent institution. That same year, the Texas
legislature approved the creation of University of North Texas at Dallas College of
Law, opening in 2014 in Downtown Dallas as part of UNT Dallas. UNT and its three
sister institutions are governed by the University of North Texas System, a system
established in 1980 by the Board of Regents and legislatively recognized in 2003 by
the 78th Texas Legislature.

Hurley Administration Building

In 2004, North Texas opened UNT Discovery Park � 290 acres (1.2 km2) � in Denton,
north of the main campus with technology incubator facilities dedicated to science
and engineering. In 2011, the College of Visual Arts and Design launched the Design
Research Center in downtown Dallas in the Design District as a laboratory dedicated
to design-driven solutions in a community of real-world professionals.[17]

Official designations
In 1985 the Governor's Select Committee on Higher Education recommended that North
Texas be designated an "emerging national research university." Nine years earlier,
in 1976, the Carnegie Foundation designated North Texas as a "Class 1 Doctorate-
Granting Institution." Four decades later, in February 2016, Carnegie elevated
North Texas to its top category � Doctorate-Granting Institutions with "highest
research activity." At that time, Carnegie had 115 universities listed at that
level.

In 1988, U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett cited UNT for its innovative
approach to undergraduate education in the Classic Learning Core,[18] an integrated
liberal arts curriculum similar to those usually found only in small, private
colleges. In 1992, UNT was elected to full membership in the Association of Public
and Land-grant Universities.[2] And, in 2011, the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board included UNT as one of eight Emerging Research Institutions in
its accountability system.

Enrollment
Certified enrollment as of the fall of 2017 was 38,081,[6] the sixth largest in the
state. For the 2011 academic year, the university awarded 8,608 degrees, of which
24 percent were at the graduate level. North Texas awarded 459 PhD degrees from
fiscal years 2009 to 2011.[19]

Academics
Main article: University of North Texas academics
University rankings
National
ARWU[20] 99�119
Forbes[21] 500
U.S. News & World Report[22] 230-301
Washington Monthly[23] 135
Global
ARWU[24] 301�400
U.S. News & World Report[25] 627
US News & World Report
(2016)
Graduate school rankings
Public Affairs 59
Library and Information Sciences
(Information)* 21
Health Librarianship
(Information) 6
School Library Media
(Information) 8
Political Science
Arts and Sciences 56
(1994�1997)
(every year that USNWR ranked the category)
Jazz Studies
(Music) 1
US News & World Report
(2016)
Departmental rankings
City Management and Urban Policy
(Public Affairs and Community Service) 8
Rehabilitation, Social Work and Addictions
(Public Affairs and Community Service) 15
Fine Arts
(Visual Arts and Design) 59
Audiology
(Public Affairs and Community Service) 48
US News & World Report
(2016)
Best online programs
MBA 47
Of the thirteen constituent collegiate units, ten sponsor 97 bachelor's degree
programs, and the remaining three units serve other roles. The Toulouse Graduate
School coordinates admissions, recruiting, and other aspects of the 81 masters and
38 doctorate degree programs offered by the ten collegiate units. The Honors
College, the eleventh college, is described below. The Texas Academy of Mathematics
and Science�for exceptional high-school-aged Texas scholars�awards high school
diplomas that reflect two years of accelerated and enriched college classical core
academics in biology, chemistry, physics, lab work, mathematics, English, history,
political science, interdisciplinary seminar, and electives.