The University of Texas at Dallas – Richardson, Texas
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is the largest public university in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It was initially founded in 1961 as a private research arm of Texas Instruments.
The young university has been characterized by rapid growth in research output and its competitive undergraduate admissions policies since its inception. Less than 47 years after its founding, the Carnegie Foundation had classified the university as a doctoral research university with “Highest Research Activity”—faster than any other school in Texas.
The University of Texas at Dallas is associated with four Nobel Prizes
The university is associated with four Nobel Prizes and has members of the National Academy of Science and National Academy of Engineering on its faculty with the most notable research projects including the areas of Space Science, Bioengineering, Cybersecurity, Nanotechnology, and Behavioral and Brain Sciences. UT Dallas offers more than 140 academic programs across its eight schools and hosts more than 50 research centers and institutes.
The college has a Division III athletics program in the American Southwest Conference and fields 14 intercollegiate teams, including a nationally recognized co-ed varsity Esports program. Additionally, the university recruits worldwide for its Top 4 collegiate chess team.
While the main campus is officially under the city jurisdiction of Richardson, one-third of it is within the borders of Dallas County. UTD also operates several locations in downtown Dallas – this includes the Crow Museum of Asian Art in the Arts District as well as multiple buildings in the Medical District next to UT Southwestern: the Center for BrainHealth and the Callier Center for Communication
About The University of Texas at Dallas
Before they founded UT Dallas, Eugene McDermott, Cecil Howard Green, and J. Erik Jonsson had purchased Geophysical Service Incorporated (GSI) on December 6, 1941 – the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. With the rapid increase in defense contracts, the General Instrument Division of GSI grew substantially and was later reorganized under the name Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) in 1951.
However, qualified personnel required by TI were not readily available in the Dallas–Fort Worth area because the region’s universities did not provide enough graduates with advanced training in engineering and physical sciences.
Texas Instruments was forced to recruit talent from other states during its expansion, and the founders observed in 1959 that “To grow industrially, the region must grow academically; it must provide the intellectual atmosphere, which will allow it to compete in the new industries dependent on highly trained and creative minds.”
To compensate for a shortage, McDermott, Green, and Jonsson established the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest on February 14, 1961. While the institute initially was housed in the Fondren Science Library at Southern Methodist University, a nearby empty cotton field was later acquired by Jonsson, McDermott, and Green in Richardson, TX in 1962. The first facility, the Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Science (later named the Founders Building), opened in 1964. The Graduate Research Center of the Southwest was renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in 1967.
On June 13, 1969, Gov. Preston Smith signed House Bill 303, which added the institution to the University of Texas System and created the University of Texas at Dallas (effective September 1, 1969). When Texas Instruments and UTD co-founders officially bequeathed the young university to the UT System, they boldly stated that they envisioned it would one day become the “MIT of the South.”
At the time, the college only accepted graduate students for Masters and Ph.D. programs – no undergraduate Bachelor’s degree programs were offered. Francis S. Johnson served as initial interim president before Bryce Jordan was selected in 1971.
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