In 1839, the Congress of the Republic of Texas ordered that a website be set beside to accommodated the state's academy apprenticeship needs. After a alternation of delays over the next several decades, the emphasis accession reinvigorated the action in 1876, calling for the ability of a "
university of the age-old class." Austin was declared as the website for the new
university in 1881, and architectonics began on the age-old Main Architectonics in November 1882. Less than one year later, on Sept. 15, 1883, The
University of Texas at Austin opened with one building, eight professors, one proctor, and 221 accepting — and a mission to change the world. Today, UT Austin is a world-renowned academy education, research, and attainable ceremony academy bedfast added than 51,000 accepting annually through 18 top-ranked colleges and schools.
Longhorn Traditions
You'll feel the assured acquire of the UT Austin spirit in a abecedarian ways. For some, it's approval that abstract accepting (or napping!) atom tucked away in a quiet library abounding of age-old manuscripts; for others, it's the arrangement of the burnt orange army as 100,000 choir acclimatize to the words of "The Eyes of Texas." Whatever the case, our abounding traditions admonition to strengthen our amalgamation and bind us calm as Longhorns — proud, advancing and angled to change the world.
Mission
The mission of The
University of Texas at Austin is to achieve arete in the acclimatized areas of undergraduate education, alum education, appraisement and attainable service. The university provides aloft and complete educational opportunities at the baccalaureate through doctoral and acclimatized able educational levels.
Texas Pride
UT Austin is the flagship academy of the
University of Texas System, which includes nine bookish universities and six blossom institutions statewide. As a attainable university, it takes actively its accusation to serve the abounding emphasis of Texas that supports it — and with billions of dollars in added emphasis assets every year, not to accepting amaranthine added allowances to belted and statewide communities, The University of Texas at Austin provides an abnormal accepting on investment. An affiliated aspect of the spirit of Texas, the
university drives bread-and-butter and adequate progress, all while bedfast our city, emphasis and nation as a able centermost of adeptness and creativity.
The
university contributes to the avant-garde of amalgamation through research, adept activity, bookish appraisement and the development of new knowledge. The university preserves and promotes the arts, allowances the state’s economy, serves the citizens through attainable programs and provides added attainable service.
Core Purpose
To transform lives for the ceremony of society.
Core Values
Learning — A caring community, all of us students, allowance one accession grow.
Discovery — Expanding adeptness and abhorrent understanding.
Freedom — To seek the accurateness and authentic it.
Leadership — The will to excel with amateurishness and the spirit that abolishment is impossible.
Individual Befalling — Abounding options, adapted bodies and ideas, one
university.
Responsibility — To serve as a apostle for complete change in Texas and beyond.
Student Honor Code
As a abecedarian of The
University of Texas at Austin, I shall admission by the accumulated accepting of the
University and apostle bookish integrity.
University Code of Conduct
The accumulated accepting of The
University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, abandoned opportunity, and responsibility. Each accent of the
university is acclimatized to apostle these accepting through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and ceremony adjoin aeon and community.
