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The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) is a public university in Austin, Texas. The university opened for enrollment in 1883 and is the oldest and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. The main campus is situated on a land area spanning 431 acres. The campus actually holds 17 libraries, making it the seventh largest academic library in the United States.
UT Austin provides a total of 156 undergraduate degree programs, 139 graduate degree programs, and 98 doctoral programs. Some of its top-ranking programs are in Engineering, Business, Communication, Liberal Arts, and Biological Sciences. The university also has a strong concentration on research, and for the past 10 fiscal years, it had a total of 786 US and international patents issued.
The University of Texas at Austin has been providing higher education programs for more than a century, and since then it continues to take part in the progress of the community. Two of the university's core values are discovery and individual opportunity; and, this is demonstrated through an inclusive campus culture. UT Austin welcomes students from diverse backgrounds and even has programs and resources for students with disabilities and for first-generation college students.