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The university places a premium on outstanding instruction. Its academic programs and professional schools rank largely among the top 20 programs and schools in the country. The faculty includes members of the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as winners of Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. More than 1,000 privately funded endowed faculty positions exist at the university. Each year about 100 faculty members receive teaching excellence awards.

"...For the second consecutive year, Hispanic Business ranked the McCombs School of Business and the School of Law at UT Austin the No. 1 MBA program and law school in the country for Hispanics..."

- In the News at UT Austin
HISPANIC OUTLOOK 07/01/2002

The Chronicle of Higher Education's 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index rates faculty members’ scholarly output and compiles overall institutional rankings on 375 universities that offer the Ph.D. degree.

See more University of Texas at Austin kudos and rankings

2009 U.S. News and World Report *

At the graduate level, forty-three UT programs and specialties rank in the top ten nationally. Fifty-eight others rank in the top 25.

• 18- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
  1 - Accounting
  3 - Information Systems
  9 - Entrepreneurship
  9 - Marketing
  11 - International
  13 - Executive MBA
  15 - Finance
  15 - Production/Operations
  15 - Management
  21 - Supply Chain Logistics
  25 - Part-time MBA
  
  
• COMMUNICATION
  9 - Audiology
  9 - Speech-language/Pathology
  
  
• 10 - EDUCATION
  4 - Special Education
  6 - Administration/Supervision
  11 - Educational Psychology
  11 - Elementary Education
  13 - Curriculum/Instruction
  19 - Education Policy
  24 - Rehabilitation Counseling
  
  
• 11 - ENGINEERING
  1 - Petroleum
  4 - Civil
  4 - Environmental/Environmental Health
  8 - Aerospace/Aeronatical/Astronautical
  8 - Chemical
  9 - Computer Engineering
  10 - Mechanical
  12 - Electrical/Electronic Communications
  18 - Industrial/Manufacturing
  18 - Biomedical/Bioengineering
  19 - Materials
  
  
• 15 - FINE ARTS, MASTER OF
  11 - Printmaking
  18 - Sculpture
  22 - Painting/Drawing
  
  
• 16 - LAW
  9 - Trial Advocacy
  10 - Tax Law
  15 - International Law
  20 - Environmental Law
  25 - Intellectual Property Law
  
  
• LIBERAL ARTS
  14 - Sociology (Ranked in 2005)
  • 5 - Sociology of Population (Ranked in 2005)
  • 16 - Sex and Gender (Ranked in 2005)
  12 - Psychology (Ranked in 2005)
  • 12 - Behavioral Neuroscience (Ranked in 2005)
  • 13 - Social Psychology (Ranked in 2005)
  • 16 - Clinical Psychology
  19 - English (Ranked in 2005)
  • 20 - American Literature after 1865 (Ranked in 2005)
  25 - Economics (Ranked in 2005)
  • 14 - Labor Economics (Ranked in 2005)
  19 - History (Ranked in 2005)
  • 1 - Latin American History (Ranked in 2005)
  25 - Political Science (Ranked in 2005)

• 7 - LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (Ranked in 2006)
  1 - Archives and Preservation (Ranked in 2006)
  3 - Law Librarianship (Ranked in 2006)
  11 - Digital Librarianship (Ranked in 2006)
  11 - Information Systems (Ranked in 2006)
  16 - School Library Media (Ranked in 2006)
  
  
• NATURAL SCIENCES
  23 - Biological Sciences (Ranked in 2007)
  • 8 - Ecology/Evolutionary Biology (Ranked in 2007)
  9 - Computer Sciences
  • 5 - Artificial Intelligence
  • 8 - Systems
  • 8 - Programming Language
  • 10 - Theory
  12 - Chemistry (Ranked in 2007)
  • 5 - Analytical (Ranked in 2007)
  • 14 - Physical (Ranked in 2007)
  • 15 - Organic (Ranked in 2007)
  • 15 - Theoretical (Ranked in 2007)
  9 - Earth Sciences (Ranked in 2006)
  • 5 - Geology (Ranked in 2006)
  • 8 - Geophysics and Seismology (Ranked in 2006)
  • 9 - Paleontology (Ranked in 2006)
  16 - Physics
  • 5 - Plasma
  • 11 - Elementary Particle/Fields/String Theory
  14 - Mathematics
  • 7 - Topology
  • 9 - Applied Mathematics
  • 10 - Analysis
  • 11 - Algebra/Number Theory/Algebraic Geometry
  • 13 - Geometry

• 19 - NURSING (Ranked in 2007)
  23 - Family (Ranked in 2007)

• 4 - PHARMACY
  
  
• 14 - PUBLIC AFFAIRS
  9 - Social Policy
  9 - Information Technology & Management
  10 - Public Policy Analysis
  11 - Nonprofit Management
  14 - Environmental Policy & Management
  17 - Public Management Administration
  18 - Public Finance and Budgeting
  
  
• 6 - SOCIAL WORK

*New rankings for 2009 reflect programs ranked in 2008

National Research Council

Seven UT doctoral programs rank in the top ten nationally, Twenty-two other departments rank in the top 25. (Ranked in 1995)

Civil Engineering - 4	Geography - 14
Computer Science - 7	Geosciences - 15
Aerospace Engineering - 8	Mechanical Engineering - 15
Classics - 8	Sociology - 16
Astrophysics/Astronomy - 10	Psychology - 16
Chemical Engineering - 10	Music - 17
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior - 10	Biomedical Engineering - 19
Linguistics - 11	Art History - 19
Physics - 11	Government - 19
Anthropology - 12	Materials Science Engineering - 20
Spanish and Portuguese - 12	Comparative Literature - 21
Germanic Languages - 13	English - 21
Chemistry - 13	History - 21
Electrical Engineering - 14	Mathematics - 23
	French - 23