Marks of Excellence
Our Commitment to Access and Excellence in Education
- UTSA is one of the fastest-growing institutions of higher education in Texas.
- Fifty-seven percent of UTSA’s students come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
- UTSA's College of Education and Human Development is the third-largest producer of teacher education degrees for Hispanics in the United States.
- UTSA received a $585,000 HUD grant to fund a Child Development and Community Resource Center, south of the UTSA Downtown Campus. The inner-city school will serve 60 neighborhood pre-kindergarten children and function as a teaching laboratory and community center.
- UTSA’s College of Business is the most comprehensive business school in South Texas and among the 40 largest business schools in the nation.
- UTSA is one of only 66 universities in the nation designated as a National Center of Excellence in Information Assurance by the National Security Agency.
- U.S. News and World Report ranked UTSA’s College of Engineering No. 46 in the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs in the United States.
Our Commitment to Research
- In 2006, UTSA was awarded more than $40.5 million in grants and sponsored programs.
- UTSA’s new Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research provides information to a network of 45 university, state, regional and municipal agencies. The institute’s Texas State Data Center, led by state demographer Steve Murdock, provides state population estimates used by state agencies and other organizations for planning purposes.
- Three UTSA College of Sciences, Department of Biology faculty members were contributors in a U.S. Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research grant. Karl Klose, Bernard Arulanandam and Hans Heider collaborated in a $48 million grant to fund interdisciplinary research that will lead to new and improved therapies and vaccines to protect against bioterrorism and infectious diseases.
- UTSA and Brooks City-Base’s Center of Excellence in Biotechnology and Bioprocessing Education and Research (CEBBER) trains both military and civilian personnel for containment in biosafety level three laboratories and bioprocessing to prepare San Antonio as a key contributor of needed expertise to address national biotechnology needs.
- In 2003, a UTSA Center for Archaeological Research team discovered more than 2,000 artifacts near the site of the city’s original military post in downtown San Antonio.
- UTSA is one of 10 institutions nationwide selected to partner in developing a research center for biophotonics, the use of light and other energies to better understand and work with biological materials, such as cells and tissues.
- UTSA is partnering with two other universites to form one of 12 Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research. The centers are intended as a venue for state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research into the causes and treatments of Parkinson’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders.
Our Students’ Achievements
- In 2004, UTSA’s American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter won first place for best overall design and most aesthetic design in the Online National Timber Bridge Design Competition.
- UTSA’s student chapter of the Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists received the 2002 National Outstanding Chapter of the Year award.
- In 2001, a team of UTSA School of Architecture students won the TSA/Herman Miller Design Charette at the Texas Society of Architects Annual Convention in Dallas. The UTSA team designed a building that would be part of “Fair Park Dallas,” a proposed site for the 2012 Olympic Games.
- The Roadrunners made school history in 2004 as both NCAA Tournament participant and Men’s Final Four host.
Last modified Jan. 4, 2007
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