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Postgraduates    12,682[4]
Location    Austin, Texas, USA
Campus    Urban, 423.5 acres (1.714 km2)
Former names    The University of Texas
(1883–1967)[5]
Colors    Burnt orange and white[6]        
Sports    Texas Longhorns
Nickname    Longhorns
Mascot    Bevo & Hook 'em
Website    utexas.edu
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The University of Texas at Austin (informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas,[7] or simply Texas[8] ) is a state research university and the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System.[9] Founded in 1883, its campus is located in Austin—approximately 0.25 miles (400 m) from the Texas State Capitol. The institution has the fifth-largest single-campus enrollment in the nation, with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and over 24,000 faculty and staff.[10] The university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university considered as providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.[11][12]
UT Austin was inducted into the American Association of Universities in 1929, and it is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures exceeding $640 million for the 2009–2010 school year. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and the McDonald Observatory. Among university faculty are recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many other awards.
UT Austin student athletes compete as the Texas Longhorns and are members of the Big 12 Conference. The university has won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, and has claimed more titles in men's and women's sports than any other school in the Big 12 since the league was founded in 1996. Current and former UT Austin athletes have won 130 Olympic medals, including 14 in Beijing in 2008 and 13 in London in 2012. The university was recognized by Sports Illustrated as "America's Best Sports College" in 2002.[13]
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Main article: Housing at the University of Chicago
On-campus undergraduate students at the University of Chicago participate in a house system in which each student is assigned to one of the university's 10 residence hall buildings and to a smaller community within their residence hall called a "house". There are 35 houses, with an average of 70 students in each house[124] Freshmen are required to participate in the house system, and housing is guaranteed every year thereafter.[125] About 60% of undergraduate students live on campus.[125]
For graduate students, the university owns and operates 28 apartment buildings near campus.[126]
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Main articles: Doc Films, Summer Breeze (concert), and University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt
Every May since 1987, the University of Chicago has held the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, in which large teams of students compete to obtain notoriously esoteric items from a list.[127] Since 1963, the Festival of the Arts (FOTA) takes over campus for 7–10 days of exhibitions and interactive artistic endeavors.[128] The university also annually holds a summer carnival and concert called Summer Breeze that hosts outside musicians, and is home to Doc Films, a student film society founded in 1932 that screens films nightly at the university. Since 1946, the university has organized the Latke-Hamantash Debate, which involves humorous discussions about the relative merits and meanings of Latke and Hamantash.
See alsoUniversity of Texas at Austin
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"University of Texas" redirects here. For the university system, see University of Texas System.
The University of Texas at Austin
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Motto    Disciplina praesidium civitatis (Latin)
Motto in English    Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy[1]
Established    September 15, 1883
Type    Flagship state university
Space-grant university
Endowment    US$6.0 billion[2]
President    William C. Powers, Jr.
Academic staff    3,018 [3]
Admin. staff    21,000
Undergraduates    38,463[4]

and Football and was a regular participant in the Men's Basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen.[116] However, the university chose to withdraw from the conference in 1946 after University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized var

Main article: Chicago Maroons
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The University of Chicago hosts 19 varsity sports teams: 10 men's teams and 9 women's teams,[116] all called the Maroons, with 585 students participating in the 2008–2009 school year.[116]
The Maroons compete in the NCAA's Division III as members of the University Athletic Association (UAA). The university was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and participated in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball and Football and was a regular participant in the Men's Basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen.[116] However, the university chose to withdraw from the conference in 1946 after University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football.[117] (In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division III team, resuming playing its home games at the new Stagg Field.)
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The university's Reynolds Club, the student center
Student organizations[edit]
Students at the University of Chicago run over 400 clubs and organizations known as Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs).[118][119] These include cultural and religious groups, academic clubs and teams, and common-interest organizations.[119] Among notable RSOs are the nation's longest continuously running student film society Doc Films, organizing committee for the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, the twice-weekly student newspaper The Chicago Maroon, the alternative weekly student newspaper the Chicago Weekly, the nation's second oldest continuously running student improvisational theater troupe Off-Off Campus, and the university-owned radio station WHPK-FM.
Fraternities and sororities[edit]
There are fourteen fraternities and seven sororities at the University of Chicago,[120] as well as one co-ed community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.[121] Four of the sororities are members of the National Panhellenic Conference,[122] and ten of the fraternities form the University of Chicago Interfraternity Council.[123] In 2002, the Associate Director of Student Activities estimated that 8–10 percent of undergraduates were members of fraternities or sororities.[122] The student activities office has used similar figures, stating that one in ten undergraduates participate in Greek life.[120]
Student housing[edit]
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Max Palevsky Residential Commons, a dormitory const