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Mascot. Blaze. Website. www.uta.edu. The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) [7] is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of Texas System in 1965.
In April 1965, the Texas Legislature transferred Arlington State College (ASC) from the Texas A&M University System to the University of Texas System (UT System). The following year, Maxwell Scarlett was the first African-American graduate in ASC history. In March 1967, ASC was renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).
[3] [66] [68] From the start of the Nedderman administration to the end, UTA's student demographics changed substantially: the ratio of male-to-female students shifted from approximately 2:1 to nearly 1:1 while African Americans went from 2.6% to 7.2% of the student body, Hispanic students went from 1.9% to 6.3%, and Asian and Pacific Islander ...
Nov. 7, 1974: Lanny Bassham, kneeling, shows a University of Texas at Arlington student some points in target shooting at UTA’s range. Bassham is recognized as one of the world’s two or three ...
ARLINGTON, Texas - The University of Texas at Arlington is launching its new drone course that’s the first of its kind in the state.. This is the first year UT Arlington has added a drone course ...
The engineering program was established in 1959 when Arlington State College was officially given the status of a senior college. The college currently offers 11 baccalaureate, 14 master's, and nine doctoral degrees. The College of Engineering celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009 and is the third largest engineering program in Texas.
The UT System is headquartered in Downtown Austin. It is the largest university system in Texas with 250,000+ enrolled students, 21,000+ employed faculty, 83,000+ health care professionals, researchers and support staff. The UT System's $42.7 billion endowment (as of the 2022 fiscal year) is the largest of any public university system in the ...
Notable faculty and staff. Dereje Agonafer - Mechanical Engineering Professor; first home grown member of National Academy of Engineering. Ishfaq Ahmad - professor of computer science and engineering, IEEE Fellow, and notable researcher in high-performance computing and video coding. Dale A. Anderson - professor of aerospace engineering; former ...