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College Overview

The University of Texas at Austin is ranked among the best values in American higher education, and it is consistently ranked among the best public research universities in the country.

The College of Liberal Arts comprises the largest community at the university with 600 faculty members, 450 staff members and more than 14,000 students. The college offers more than 50 degree plans, more than 5,500 class sections and more than 400,000 semester credit hours.

Each year, the College of Liberal Arts welcomes the best and brightest thinkers to the university. These valedictorians, athletes, student activists and writers embark on the time-tested, transformational study of liberal arts with the support and guidance of the college’s nationally recognized academic advisers.

Our students do not follow the beaten path—they create new ones under the guidance of the college’s internationally recognized researchers and teachers who bring learning to life in their labs and classrooms.

Program Rankings

U.S. News & World Report named The University of Texas at Austin's Latin American History program as the nation's best in its 2009 rankings of America's Best Graduate Schools.

Several other Liberal Arts programs made the list, based on expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students.
  • Latin American History: 1st
  • Sociology of Population: 4th
  • Psychology: 13th
  • Sociology: 14th
  • History: 17th
  • English: 17th
  • Economics: 25th
  • Political Science: 21st

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