About the College

We believe in small-community experiences and unmatched opportunities at scale. UT Austin’s largest college is also one of the biggest science schools in the nation. We are home to 16 programs for undergraduate and graduate students ranked in the top 10 nationally.

Unique to Texas Science

Driving Impact

Join a community where research meets teaching—and innovation is everywhere. Leaders behind some of the most talked-about discoveries of a generation are here, as is the world’s most powerful university supercomputer, the biggest undergraduate research program and stand-out academics.

 

Data Insights

By the Numbers

The College of Natural Sciences includes almost 13,000 high-achieving students on campus and more than 700 individual faculty. Our community of leaders reflect the diversity of Texas.

 

More Facts & rankings

11,700

undergraduate majors 

1,300+

residential graduate students across 15 programs

702

tenured, tenure-track and professional-track faculty

Leadership

A Longhorn at Heart

Dean David Vanden Bout is a native Austin resident, a distinguished teacher, an accomplished chemist and a nationally recognized Inclusive Leadership Award winner. He’s an alum who bleeds burnt orange—and sports a mean bowtie. Together with students, staff and faculty, he is advancing a goal of making UT Austin the highest-impact public research university for science in the world.

 

Where We’re Headed

Our Path to Change

The Texas Science community has bold plans to provide enriching and transformative experiences in all the places where our community members work and learn, while accomplishing in education and research more than any other public research college of STEM. 

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The Forty Acres and More

Austin and Beyond

Just as Austin is a city with something for everyone, so is the college. Texas Science has a presence across more than a dozen buildings on the main campus and hosts a network of living laboratories around the state. Our unique offerings include our observatory and museum. We proudly work and learn in the spaces where Nobel-Prize winning research happened, where game-changing new approaches to education came to be and where countless people and ideas got their start to change the world.

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