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 business, which now has nine programs ranked in the top 10.
UT maintained its top 10 spot for six colleges and schools: the College of Education (No. 6), School of Information (No. 6), School of Social Work (No. 8), College of Pharmacy (No. 6), Cockrell School of Engineering (No. 7) and Jackson School of Geosciences (No. 7), ranked under Earth Sciences. Four specialties ranked No. 1 in the country: Accounting, Petroleum Engineering, Latin American History and Sociology of Population. Overall, the University has 51 graduate schools and specialty programs ranked in the top 10, when combined with rankings not updated for 2025.
U.S. News & World Report’s graduate rankings, separate from the magazine's yearly ranking of undergraduate programs, are among the most widely regarded ratings in higher education. They are based on surveys of academic leaders and, for select programs, additional quantitative measures including placement test scores, student/faculty ratios, research expenditures and job placement success.
Specialties ranked No. 1 in the nation are:
Accounting
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 - 16
- Accounting – 1
- Business Analytics – 8
- Entrepreneurship – 10
- Finance – 14
- Information Systems – 3
- Management – 8
- Marketing – 9
- Production/Operations – 10
- Project Management – 3
- Real Estate – 8
- Supply Chain/Logistics – 17
- Executive MBA – 12
- Part-Time MBA – 6
Communication
- Audiology – 18
- Speech Language Pathology - 14
Fine Arts – 23*
- Sculpture - 6*
Education - 6
- Counseling – 15
- Curriculum/Instruction – 10
- Education Policy – 10
- Educational Administration/Supervision – 3
- Educational Psychology – 8
- Elementary Teacher Education – 11
- Higher Education Administration – 12
- Secondary Teacher Education – 10
- Special Education – 6
Engineering – 7
- Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering - 9
- Chemical Engineering - 8
- Civil Engineering - 4
- Computer Engineering - 8
- Electrical Engineering - 11
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering - 7
- Petroleum Engineering - 1
Information – 6
- Archives and Preservation - 6*
- Digital Librarianship - 7*
- Information Systems - 7*
Jackson School of Geosciences - 7
- Geochemistry – 13*
- Geology – 2*
- Geophysics and Seismology – 5*
- Paleontology – 3*
Law – 14
- Business/Corporate Law – 18
- Constitutional Law – 14
- Contracts/Commercial Law – 13
- Criminal Law – 16
- Intellectual Property Law – 12
- International Law – 26
- Tax Law – 12
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 - 12
Public Affairs – 11
- Public Policy Analysis - 15*
*Ranking not revised for 2024-25. Based on latest available ranking.