Fast Facts
Get to know UT Dallas, a growing public research university with 152 degree programs and more than 30,000 students. Download the UTD Fast Facts Quick Reference Guide (pdf).
Enrollment
29,866 students enrolled in fall 2024.
73% undergraduate; 27% graduate
4,196 freshmen, including 175 National Merit Scholars
Students from 130+ countries
Most students come from Texas, California, Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Washington.
82% are full-time students, 18% are part-time
Oldest student is 83, youngest is 14, average age is 21 (average age is for the entire student body, not just undergrads)
30% of the undergraduate population is made up of transfer students
Academics
152 academic programs across seven schools
- 60 bachelor’s degree programs
- 60 master’s degree programs
- 31 PhD programs
- 1 professional doctorate program (audiology)
Student-to-faculty ratio: 25:1
Four-year graduation rate: 62% (#3 in Texas among public universities)
Six-year graduation rate: 76%
90% of freshmen returned
Cost
61% of UTD graduating seniors have no student debt compared to 49% in Texas and 45% in the nation (2021 TICAS report).
Nearly 70% of our undergraduate students receive some form of need- or merit-based financial aid.
Princeton Review ranks UT Dallas among its Best Value Public Colleges in the U.S. for 2023.
Student Life
400+ campus organizations, 26 fraternity and sorority chapters
66,249 hours of student volunteerism (2024)
UT Dallas earned a STARS Gold ranking for sustainability, achieved Bicycle Friendly University bronze recognition, and has Bee Campus USA and Tree Campus USA certifications.
Sports
Mascot: Temoc (Comet spelled backward)
NCAA Division II Lone Start Conference with varsity teams in men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, golf, tennis, cross country, track and field, men’s baseball, women’s softball and volleyball.
20 conference titles in the past five years
Location
Dallas ranks in the top 10 best-performing large cities by the Milken Institute (2024).
Dallas-Fort Worth is home to:
- 2 airports
- 6 professional sports teams
- 21 Fortune 500 companies, all of which have hired UT Dallas graduates.
- The Dallas-Irving-Plano area topped all U.S. markets for the greatest job gains in the last five years. (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
What We’re Known For
Nationally-ranked programs in STEM, management, liberal arts and social sciences majors.
Nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship. 68 companies have been incorporated through the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2016-2020).
Since 1996, the UT Dallas Chess team has won four President’s Cup titles and has qualified for this national event 19 times out of 23. Our chess program also has recruited over 30 scholars with a Grandmaster title, a lifetime distinction held by only 2,000 individuals worldwide.
Esports. The UTD varsity esports program is ranked #1 in Texas and top 10 in the nation. (BestColleges.com)
Engaged alumni. We have over 140,000 living alumni who have a campus home at the 15,000-square-foot Davidson-Gundy Alumni Center.
Famous Alumnus: Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar PhD’77 came to the U.S. after serving as a physician in Turkey. As a graduate student at the University, he aimed to learn more about DNA repair and studied under the late Dr. Claud Stanley Rupert, who was a pioneer in the field. In 2015, Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first Nobel-winning alum from UT Dallas. The researcher was also the recipient of the University’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.