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 15 programs for undergraduate and graduate students ranked in the top 10 nationally.
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.
- LEARN ABOUT OUR IMPACT AND VALUES
- DISCOVER OUR CULTURE OF WELCOME AND BELONGING
- SEE WHAT IT’S LIKE WORKING IN THE COLLEGE
- FIND OUT ABOUT OUR COMMITMENT TO WELL-BEING
- EXPLORE HOW WE ADVANCE EXCELLENCE IN STEM
By the Numbers
The College of Natural Sciences includes almost 13,000 high-achieving students on campus and about 700 individual faculty.
undergraduate majors
residential graduate students across 15 programs
tenured, tenure-track and professional-track faculty
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.
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.
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.