University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at capital of Texas, informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, or Texas in sports contexts, is a public research university and also the flagship establishment of the University of Texas System. Founded in 1883 as "The University of Texas," its campus is in capital of Texas, Texas—approximately 1 mile (1,600 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 twenty four,000 faculty and employees. The university has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies," a publicly funded university thought of to give a top quality of education love those of the conference.
UT Austin was inducted into the yankee Association of Universities in 1929, becoming solely the third university in the yankee South to be nonappointive. It is a significant center for tutorial research, with research expenditures extraordinary $550 million for the 2013–2014 faculty year. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and deposit and the Blanton deposit of Art, and operates various auxiliary analysis facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research field and the McDonald Observatory. Among university faculty area unit recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Emmy Award, and the National Medal of Science, as well as many alternative awards.

UT Austin student athletes vie as the Texas Longhorns and area unit members of the massive twelve Conference. Its Longhorn Network is distinctive therein it's the sole sports network that includes the school sports of one university. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Championships and has claimed more titles in public toilet and women's sports than any alternative faculty within the huge twelve since the league was based in 1996. Current and former UT Austin athletes have won one hundred thirty Olympic medals, including fourteen in Beijing in 2008 and thirteen in London in 2012
The first mention of a public university in Texas will be derived to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although Title half dozen, Article 217 of that Constitution promised to establish public education within the arts and sciences,no action was taken by the Mexican government. After Texas obtained its independence from North American nation in 1836, the Texas Congress adopted the Constitution of the Republic, which, under Section five of its General Provisions, stated "It shall be the duty of Congress, as soon as circumstances can allow, to provide, by law, a general system of education." On April eighteen, 1838, "An Act to Establish the University of Texas" was noted a special committee of the Texas Congress, but was not reported  back for more action. On January twenty six, 1839, the Texas Congress united to set aside fifty leagues of land (approx. 288,000 acres) towards the establishment of a in public funded university. In addition, 40 acres (160,000 m2) in the new capital of Austin were reserved and selected "College Hill." (The term "Forty Acres" is colloquially used to talk to the University as an entire. The original forty acres is that the area from Guadalupe to Speedway and twenty first Street to twenty fourth Street.
In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States. Interestingly, the state's Constitution of 1845 failed to mention the topic of upper education. On February eleven, 1858, the Seventh Texas general assembly approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first in public funded university (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received consistent to the Compromise of 1850 and Texas' relinquishing claims to lands outside its gift boundaries). In addition, the legislature selected land reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction toward the university's endowment. On January thirty one, 1860, the state legislature, wanting to avoid raising taxes, passed an act authorizing the cash put aside for the University of Texas to be used for frontier defense in west Texas to shield settlers from Indian attacks. Texas' secession from the Union and the American warfare delayed reimbursement of the borrowed monies. At the end of the warfare in 1865.