The University of Texas at Austin places a premium on outstanding instruction and productivity.
Our faculty members are the recipients of numerous distinguished awards including Nobel and Pulitzer prizes and memberships in such prestigious organizations as the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
More than 1,000 privately funded endowed faculty positions exist at the university, and each year about 100 faculty members receive teaching excellence awards.
Graduate Program Rankings
U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools"
The University of Texas at Austin continues to be one of the premier schools for graduate studies, according to U.S. News & World Report’s partial release of its most recent “Best Graduate Schools.” UT made gains in several disciplines, including computer science where all programs rank in the top 10.
Four UT colleges and schools ranked in the top 10: the College of Education (No. 6), College of Engineering (No. 6), the Jackson School of Geosciences (No. 4), and the College of Pharmacy (No. 8). Two specialties ranked No. 1 in the country: Information Systems and Petroleum Engineering. Overall, the University has 50 graduate schools and specialty programs ranked in the top 10 when combined with rankings not updated for 2026.
U.S. News & World Report’s graduate rankings, which are published separately from the yearly ranking of undergraduate programs, are based on surveys of academic leaders and, for select programs, additional quantitative measures including placement test scores, student/faculty ratios, research expenditures, salary by profession, and job placement success. The publication updates some of its specialty rankings each year and republishes the most recent rankings in other areas. UT graduate schools, programs and specialties that U.S. News ranked in the top 25 are listed below.
Specialties ranked No. 1 in the nation are:
Business Information Systems
McCombs School of Business
Latin American History
College of Liberal Arts
Petroleum Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
Sociology of Population
College of Liberal Arts
Graduate and professional schools ranked in the top 10 are:
UT Austin Graduate Programs Ranked in the Top 25
Business - 18
- Accounting – 6
- Business Analytics – 9
- Entrepreneurship – 22
- Finance – 14*
- Information Systems – 1
- Management – 15
- Marketing – 14
- Production/Operations – 12
- Project Management – 3*
- Real Estate – 8
- Supply Chain/Logistics – 22
- Executive MBA – 12*
- Part-Time MBA – 6
Communication
- Audiology – 18
- Speech Language Pathology - 14
Fine Arts – 34
- Sculpture - 6*
Education - 6
- Counseling – 15*
- Curriculum/Instruction – 6
- Education Policy – 10
- Educational Administration/Supervision – 3
- Educational Psychology – 6
- Elementary Teacher Education – 9
- Higher Education Administration – 14
- Secondary Teacher Education – 9
- Special Education – 4
Engineering – 6
- Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering - 8
- Biomedical Engineering - 18
- Chemical Engineering - 9
- Civil Engineering - 4
- Computer Engineering - 8
- Electrical Engineering - 12
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering - 7
- Industrial Manufacturing Systems - 22
- Materials Engineering - 18
- Mechanical Engineering - 16
- Petroleum Engineering - 1
Information – 6
- Archives and Preservation - 6*
- Digital Librarianship - 7*
- Information Systems - 7*
Jackson School of Geosciences - 4
- Geochemistry – 13*
- Geology – 2*
- Geophysics and Seismology – 5*
- Paleontology – 3*
Law – 16
- Business/Corporate Law – 17
- Constitutional Law – 15
- Contracts/Commercial Law – 18
- Criminal Law – 20
- Intellectual Property Law – 11
- International Law – 19
- Tax Law – 20
- Trial Advocacy – 19
Liberal Arts
- African American History – 10*
- American Literature After 1865 – 18*
- American Politics – 20*
- Behavioral Neuroscience – 8*
- Comparative Politics – 18*
- Economics – 21
- English – 17
- History – 13
- Latin American History – 1*
- Modern U.S. History – 16*
- Political Science – 18
- Psychology – 14
- Sex and Gender – 6*
- Social Psychology – 9*
- Social Stratification – 13*
- Sociology – 14
- Sociology of Population – 1
Natural Sciences
- Algebra – 19*
- Applied Math – 7*
- Analysis – 8*
- Analytical – 4*
- Artificial Intelligence – 10
- Biological Sciences – 25*
- Chemistry – 16*
- Computer Science – 7
- Condensed Matter – 22*
- Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity – 10*
- Ecology/Evolutionary Biology – 8*
- Inorganic – 14*
- Mathematics – 13*
- Organic – 20*
- Physical – 14*
- Physics – 13*
- Programming Language – 8
- Statistics – 27*
- Systems – 11
- Theory – 7
- Topology – 8*
Nursing
- Master's - 18
Public Affairs – 14
- Global Policy – 15
- Leadership – 23
- Local Government Management – 21
- Public Policy Analysis – 16
*Ranking not revised for current year. Based on latest available ranking.