The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin, commonly shortened to UT Austin, UT or Texas, is a public research university in Austin in the state of Texas and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System, opened on 15 September 1883得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（常简称 UT Austin、UT 或 Texas）是位于美国得克萨斯州奥斯汀市的公立研究型大学，也是得克萨斯大学系统的旗舰学府，于 1883 年 9 月 15 日正式开学

With 53,864 students enrolled in the autumn of 2024, among them 43,165 undergraduates and 10,699 postgraduates, it is the largest campus of its system, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed 72nd in the world2024 年秋季在校生共 53,864 人，其中本科生 43,165 人、研究生 10,699 人，是所在系统内规模最大的校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 72 位

History

• The idea of a public university in Texas was first raised in the constitution of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas in 1827, which promised public instruction in the arts and sciences, but no action followed在得克萨斯设立公立大学的构想最早见于 1827 年墨西哥科阿韦拉-特哈斯州宪法，其中承诺提供文理方面的公共教育，但并未付诸实施
• After Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 the constitution of the republic made it a duty of Congress to establish a general system of education, and the Seventh Texas Legislature passed a bill on 11 February 1858 setting aside 100,000 dollars in United States bonds for a University of Texas1836 年得克萨斯脱离墨西哥独立后，共和国宪法把建立普及教育体系列为国会职责，1858 年 2 月 11 日第七届得克萨斯州议会通过法案，为得克萨斯大学拨出十万美元美国债券
• The Civil War delayed repayment of those funds and by 1865 the endowment had shrunk to 16,000 dollars, yet the Texas Constitution of 1876 reaffirmed by popular vote the mandate to establish a university内战耽误了这笔资金的回收，到 1865 年这笔基金已缩水至一万六千美元，但 1876 年得克萨斯宪法仍以公民投票的方式重申了设立大学的授权
• On 30 March 1881 the legislature organised the structure of the university and called a popular vote on its location, and Austin won the site with 30,913 votes while Galveston was designated for the medical department1881 年 3 月 30 日州议会确定了大学的结构并就该校选址举行公民投票，奥斯汀以 30,913 票胜出，加尔维斯顿则被指定为医学部所在地
• The cornerstone of the Old Main Building was laid on 17 November 1882 on the original College Hill site, and the University of Texas officially opened its doors on 15 September 1883旧主楼的奠基石于 1882 年 11 月 17 日在最初的学院山选址安放，得克萨斯大学则在 1883 年 9 月 15 日正式开门办学
• The Victorian-Gothic Old Main Building served almost every purpose on the original forty-acre campus, but by the 1930s it was judged too small, and it was razed in 1934 despite objections from many students and faculty to make way for the present tower and Main Building维多利亚哥特风格的旧主楼在最初四十英亩的校园里几乎承担了全部功能，但到二十世纪三十年代被认为空间不足，1934 年在许多师生反对的情况下仍被拆除，以便建造如今的主楼与塔楼
• In 1916 a bitter dispute broke out between Governor James E. Ferguson and the university over faculty appointments, and his retaliatory veto of the university budget led to his impeachment by the Texas House of Representatives and removal from office1916 年州长詹姆斯·E·弗格森与大学因教职任命爆发激烈争执，他报复性否决大学预算，最终被得克萨斯州众议院弹劾并经参议院定罪去职
• In 1921 the legislature appropriated 1.35 million dollars to buy land next to the main campus, and after oil was discovered on university lands with the completion of the Santa Rita No. 1 well in 1923 the Permanent University Fund grew substantially1921 年州议会拨款 135 万美元购置主校区旁的土地，1923 年圣丽塔一号井完井后大学所属土地上发现石油，永久大学基金随之大幅增长
• The university was admitted to the Association of American Universities in 1929, joining the small group of North American institutions recognised for the strength of their graduate and research programmes学校于 1929 年加入美国大学协会，跻身北美少数因研究生教育与科研实力而获认可的院校之列
• During the Second World War the university was one of 131 institutions that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Programme, which offered students a route to a Navy commission, and academic calendars were compressed to accelerate graduation第二次世界大战期间，学校是参加 V-12 海军学院培训计划的 131 所院校之一，该计划为学生提供取得海军军官委任的途径，教学日历也被压缩以加快毕业
• After the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 the admission of Black students was briefly rescinded amid the Ford Crisis, and the first Black undergraduates entered in the autumn of 19561954 年最高法院对布朗诉教育委员会案作出裁决后，「福特事件」一度使黑人学生的录取被撤销，首批黑人本科生到 1956 年秋天才入学
• Black students were allowed to live in campus dormitories from 1956 but were barred from campus cafeterias, and the university fully desegregated its facilities and dormitories only in 1965黑人学生自 1956 年起获准住校内宿舍，却被禁止进入校园食堂，直到 1965 年学校才全面取消设施与宿舍的种族隔离
• Following rapid growth in enrolment after the Second World War, the university unveiled an ambitious master plan in 1960 intended to lift it into the ranks of the leading state universities, and in 1965 the legislature granted the Board of Regents the power of eminent domain to buy surrounding land二战后在校生迅速增长，学校于 1960 年推出雄心勃勃的总体规划，力图跻身全美顶尖州立大学之列，1965 年州议会又授予校董会征收权以购置周边土地
• On 1 August 1966 the student Charles Whitman barricaded himself on the observation deck of the Main Building tower and killed fifteen people before police stormed the tower and shot him1966 年 8 月 1 日，学生查尔斯·惠特曼占据主楼塔楼的观景台并杀害了十五人，警方突入塔楼将其击毙
• After the shooting the observation deck was closed until 1968 and closed again in 1975 following a series of suicides, and it reopened to the public in 1999 after the installation of security fencing and other precautions枪击事件后观景台关闭至 1968 年，又因二十世纪七十年代的一系列跳楼事件于 1975 年再次关闭，1999 年在加装安全围栏等措施后重新对公众开放
• On 6 March 1967 the Sixtieth Texas Legislature changed the institution's official name from The University of Texas to The University of Texas at Austin in recognition of the growth of the system1967 年 3 月 6 日第六十届得克萨斯州议会把学校的正式名称从「得克萨斯大学」改为「得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校」，以反映整个大学系统的发展
• The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, the first presidential library built on a university campus, was dedicated on 22 May 1971 in the presence of the former president, Lady Bird Johnson and President Richard Nixon林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊总统图书馆与博物馆是首座建在大学校园内的总统图书馆，1971 年 5 月 22 日在约翰逊前总统、伯德·约翰逊夫人与尼克松总统出席下落成
• On 30 April 2006 the university opened the Blanton Museum of Art, in August 2008 the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center opened as a new gateway to the campus, and in the same year Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium was enlarged to a capacity of 100,1192006 年 4 月 30 日学校开放布兰顿艺术博物馆，2008 年 8 月 AT&T 高管教育与会议中心作为校园新门户启用，同年达雷尔·K·罗亚尔-得克萨斯纪念体育场扩建至可容纳 100,119 人
• In 2020 the university moved most teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic after forty-nine cases emerged from students who had travelled to Mexico during spring break, and it returned to mainly in-person classes in the autumn of 20212020 年新冠疫情期间，在春假赴墨西哥旅行归来的学生中确诊 49 例后，学校将大部分教学转入线上，并于 2021 年秋季恢复以线下授课为主
• In 2024, after four years of test-optional admissions, the university again required SAT or ACT scores for applicants from the autumn 2025 intake, and in the same year it carried out layoffs of about sixty staff after state legislation on diversity programmes2024 年，在实行四年可选提交标化成绩的招生政策后，学校重新要求 2025 年秋季及以后入学的申请者提交 SAT 或 ACT 成绩，同年又在州有关多元项目的立法后裁员约六十人

Academics

• The university is made up of sixteen colleges and schools together with two academic units, among them the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Natural Sciences, both founded in 1883 with the institution itself, and the School of Law of the same year学校由十六个学院与两个学术单位组成，其中包括与学校同在 1883 年成立的人文学院与自然科学学院，以及同年的法学院
• Other units include the Cockrell School of Engineering of 1894, the College of Pharmacy founded in Galveston in 1893 and moved to Austin in 1927, the College of Education of 1905 and the McCombs School of Business of 1922其他单位包括 1894 年的科克雷尔工程学院、1893 年在加尔维斯顿创办并于 1927 年迁至奥斯汀的药学院、1905 年的教育学院以及 1922 年的麦库姆斯商学院
• Further schools are the School of Architecture of 1948, the Steve Hicks School of Social Work of 1950, the Moody College of Communication of 1965, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs of 1970 and the School of Nursing of 1976此外还有 1948 年的建筑学院、1950 年的史蒂夫·希克斯社会工作学院、1965 年的穆迪传播学院、1970 年的林登·B·约翰逊公共事务学院与 1976 年的护理学院
• The most recent additions are the Jackson School of Geosciences of 2005, the School of Undergraduate Studies of 2008, the Dell Medical School of 2013 and the School of Civic Leadership of 2023最新增设的学院包括 2005 年的杰克逊地球科学学院、2008 年的本科生院、2013 年的戴尔医学院与 2023 年的公民领导力学院
• The university offers more than a hundred undergraduate degrees and about 170 graduate degrees, and in the 2009-2010 academic year it awarded 13,215 degrees, of which 67.7 per cent were bachelor's, 22 per cent master's, 6.4 per cent doctoral and 3.9 per cent professional degrees学校提供一百多个本科学位与约 170 个研究生学位，在 2009 至 2010 学年共授予 13,215 个学位，其中学士占 67.7%、硕士占 22%、博士占 6.4%、专业学位占 3.9%
• It runs nine honours programmes, including the interdisciplinary Plan II programme, the Business Honors Program, the Turing Scholars Program in computer science, Liberal Arts Honors and the Dean's Scholars Program in the natural sciences学校开设九个荣誉项目，包括跨学科的 Plan II 项目、商科荣誉项目、计算机科学的图灵学者项目、人文荣誉项目以及自然科学领域的院长学者项目
• Research expenditure reached 1.06 billion dollars in the 2023 fiscal year, the university has earned more than three hundred patents since 2003, and its Office of Technology Commercialisation has created a steady stream of start-up companies from campus research2023 财年科研支出达 10.6 亿美元，学校自 2003 年以来获得三百多项专利，其技术商业化办公室持续把校园研究成果转化为初创企业
• Research is concentrated above all in engineering and the physical sciences, with energy as a major thrust covering biofuels, battery and solar-cell technology and geological carbon dioxide storage, and the Energy Institute was founded in 2009 to organise this work研究尤其集中在工程与物理科学领域，能源是重点方向，涵盖生物燃料、电池与太阳能电池技术、地质封存二氧化碳等，2009 年成立的能源研究所负责统筹这项工作
• The university operates the McDonald Observatory in west Texas, which lies about 450 miles from Austin and is home to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the third-largest telescope in the world, along with three other large instruments学校在得州西部运营麦克唐纳天文台，该台距奥斯汀约 450 英里，拥有世界第三大的霍比-埃伯利望远镜以及另外三台大型望远镜
• The J. J. Pickle Research Campus in north Austin houses the Texas Advanced Computing Center, whose supercomputers have included Ranger, Stampede, Stampede2 and Frontera, and also hosts the Microelectronics Research Center with a 15,000 square foot cleanroom位于奥斯汀北部的 J·J·皮克尔研究校区设有得克萨斯高级计算中心，其超级计算机先后包括 Ranger、Stampede、Stampede2 与 Frontera，并容纳拥有 15,000 平方英尺洁净室的微电子研究中心
• Fourteen of the university's seventeen libraries and its seven museums hold more than nine million volumes, making the library system the seventh largest academic library in the United States学校十七座图书馆中的十四座以及七座博物馆共藏书九百多万册，使这一图书馆系统成为美国第七大学术图书馆
• The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center holds one of the only twenty-one remaining complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible and the first permanent photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras, taken by Nicéphore Niépce哈里·兰塞姆人文研究中心藏有现存二十一部完整古腾堡圣经之一，以及尼塞福尔·涅普斯拍摄的首张永久性照片《勒格拉窗外的景色》
• The Blanton Museum of Art, a 155,000 square foot building opened in 2006, is the largest university art museum in the United States and holds about seventeen thousand works from Europe, the United States and Latin America2006 年启用的布兰顿艺术博物馆建筑面积 155,000 平方英尺，是美国最大的大学艺术博物馆，收藏约一万七千件来自欧洲、美国与拉丁美洲的作品
• The Benson Latin American Collection holds the largest collection of Latin American materials among university libraries in the United States, and the Perry-Castañeda Library at the heart of the campus houses the central library operations and its map collection本森拉丁美洲收藏在美国各大学图书馆中拥有规模最大的拉美资料，位于校园中心的佩里-卡斯塔涅达图书馆则承载图书馆总馆业务及其地图收藏
• The university is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity, and its faculty have included winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Turing Award and the National Medal of Science学校被列为研究活动极强的 R1 级博士大学，其教师中包括诺贝尔奖、普利策奖、图灵奖与美国国家科学奖章的获得者
• Students from outside Texas made up 9.2 per cent of the student body in autumn 2024 and international students 9.7 per cent, and the three most popular undergraduate majors in 2022 were biology, psychology and computer and information sciences2024 年秋季得州外学生占全校 9.2%、国际学生占 9.7%，2022 年最受欢迎的三个本科专业是生物学、心理学与计算机及信息科学
• Admission is selective: for the autumn 2023 intake 66,109 students applied and 19,253 were accepted, a rate of 29.1 per cent, and 48.8 per cent of those admitted enrolled录取具有选择性：2023 年秋季共有 66,109 人申请、19,253 人获录取，录取率 29.1%，获录取者中 48.8% 最终入学

Campus

• The university owns 1,438.5 acres of property in total, comprising 423.5 acres for the Main Campus in central Austin, the J. J. Pickle Research Campus in the north of the city and other holdings across Texas学校共拥有 1,438.5 英亩土地，包括奥斯汀市中心主校区的 423.5 英亩、位于城北的 J·J·皮克尔研究校区以及在得州各地的其他地产
• The main campus contains 150 buildings with a combined floor area of more than eighteen million square feet, and the declared campus area of 431 acres places it among the largest urban campuses in the United States主校区有 150 座建筑，总建筑面积超过一千八百万平方英尺，校方公布的 431 英亩校园面积使其跻身美国规模最大的城市校园之列
• The central landmark is the Beaux-Arts Main Building designed by Paul Philippe Cret, completed in 1937, whose tower rises 307 feet and is lit burnt orange for athletic victories and academic achievements and darkened on solemn occasions核心地标是保罗·菲利普·克雷设计的布杂风格主楼，1937 年落成，其塔楼高 307 英尺，在体育胜利与学术成就时点亮橘色、在庄重场合则熄灭
• At the top of the tower hangs a carillon of fifty-six bells, the largest in Texas, played on weekdays by student carillonneurs, and the tower's observation deck reopened for weekend tours in 1998塔顶悬挂着得州最大的五十六钟排钟，工作日由学生钟琴师演奏，塔楼观景台则于 1998 年重新开放供周末参观
• The campus is laced with a tunnel system of about six miles built from around 1928 under the supervision of the engineering professor Carl J. Eckhardt Jr. and used for communications and utility services校园内布有约六英里长的隧道系统，始建于 1928 年前后，由工程学教授小卡尔·J·埃克哈特监督修建，用于通信与公用设施
• The university has generated its own electricity since the late 1940s, and its natural gas cogeneration plant now has a capacity of 123 megawatts, while a small TRIGA nuclear reactor operates at the Pickle Research Campus学校自二十世纪四十年代末起自行发电，其天然气热电联产装置现有 123 兆瓦装机容量，皮克尔研究校区还运行着一座小型 TRIGA 核反应堆
• Recent building projects include the Norman Hackerman Building for chemistry and biology opened in 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall, the Belo Center for New Media and the Student Activity Center opened in January 2011近年建成的项目包括 2010 年启用的诺曼·哈克曼化学与生物学大楼、比尔及梅琳达·盖茨计算机科学综合体与戴尔计算机科学馆、贝洛新媒体中心，以及 2011 年 1 月启用的学生活动中心
• The campus has fifteen residence halls, of which eight stand in North Campus and seven in South Campus, with a capacity to house more than 7,100 students and the Jester Center as the largest at 2,945 places校园有十五座宿舍楼，其中八座位于北校区、七座位于南校区，可容纳 7,100 多名学生，最大的杰斯特中心可住 2,945 人
• On-campus housing meets only part of the demand, so most students live in private halls, housing cooperatives, apartments or Greek houses, and University Housing and Dining plans to expand its share from 7,000 to 9,000 beds in the campus area校内住宿只能满足部分需求，多数学生住在私人宿舍、住房合作社、公寓或希腊式社团住所，校方住宿餐饮部门计划把其在校园周边约 27,000 个床位中的份额从 7,000 扩至 9,000
• The university runs two public radio stations, KUT for news and KUTX for music, and students, faculty and staff with an active university identification card may ride the regional CapMetro bus network and the campus shuttle system without paying a fare学校运营两家公共广播电台，KUT 播送新闻、KUTX 播送音乐，持有效校园证件的学生与教职工可免费乘坐区域 CapMetro 公交网络与校园班车
• Austin, the capital of Texas and a fast-growing technology centre known as Silicon Hills, provides the setting of the university, and several of its buildings such as Battle Hall, the old library added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, reflect the early twentieth-century campus得州首府奥斯汀是快速发展、被称为「硅丘」的科技中心，也是学校所在的城市，校内的巴斯楼即老图书馆等建筑于 1970 年列入国家史迹名录，体现了二十世纪初的校园风貌

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed 72nd in the world, one of the highest positions held by a public university in the United States in that table在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，学校位列世界第 72 位，是该校在该榜单中所处的高位之一，也是美国公立大学中的领先位置
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places UT Austin tied at 53rd, a rise from 50th in the 2026 edition, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 56th, while the U.S. News national table of 2025 placed it tied 30th among all American universities2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列为并列第 53 位，较 2026 年版的第 50 位有所变化，2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为第 56 位，而在 2025 年美国国内榜单中该校并列全美第 30 位
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2025 it stands 49th in the world, a position that reflects the scale of its research output, and it was ranked 36th in the world by the Center for World University Rankings in 2025在 2025 年世界大学学术排名中位列世界第 49 位，这一位置体现了其科研产出的规模，2025 年世界大学排名中心则将其列为世界第 36 位
• The OpenAlex database attributes 357,924 works to the university with 25,122,234 citations, and its research expenditure of 1.06 billion dollars in the 2023 fiscal year places it among the leading American research universitiesOpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 357,924 篇成果、被引 25,122,234 次，其 2023 财年 10.6 亿美元的科研支出使其位居美国领先研究型大学之列
• Thirteen Nobel Prize winners, twenty-five Pulitzer Prize winners, three Turing Award winners, two Fields Medallists, two Wolf Prize winners, three Abel Prize winners and one Dan David Prize winner have been associated with the university as alumni, faculty or researchers与该校相关的有十三位诺贝尔奖得主、二十五位普利策奖得主、三位图灵奖得主、两位菲尔兹奖得主、两位沃尔夫奖得主、三位阿贝尔奖得主与一位丹·戴维奖得主，他们或是校友、或是教师、或是研究人员
• The university is regarded as a Public Ivy, a public institution offering an Ivy League style experience at a public price, and it has appeared on virtually every list of Public Ivies since the term was coined by Richard Moll in 1985学校被视为「公立常春藤」，即以公立学费提供常春藤式教育体验的公立院校，自理查德·莫尔 1985 年提出这一说法以来，它几乎出现在每一份公立常春藤名单上
• Its accounting programme and its Latin American history programme have repeatedly been ranked first in the nation by U.S. News, and more than fifty other programmes in science, the humanities and the professions rank within the top twenty-five nationally其会计项目与拉丁美洲史项目多次被美国新闻评为全美第一，另有五十多个科学、人文与专业项目位居全美前二十五
• The College of Pharmacy has been listed third in the nation and the School of Information sixth in library and information science, while the School of Social Work has ranked seventh, the Jackson School of Geosciences eighth in earth sciences and the School of Law fifteenth药学院曾列全美第三、信息学院在图书馆与信息科学领域列第六，社会工作学院曾列第七、杰克逊地球科学学院在地球科学领域列第八、法学院列第十五
• Among engineering schools the Cockrell School has been tied for tenth nationally with its undergraduate programme tied for eleventh, the McCombs School of Business tied for sixteenth with its undergraduate business programme tied for fifth, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs seventh in public affairs在工程学院中，科克雷尔工程学院曾并列全美第十、其本科项目并列第十一，麦库姆斯商学院并列第十六、其本科商科项目并列第五，林登·B·约翰逊公共事务学院则在公共事务领域列第七
• Across the major tables the university has moved from 68th in the QS 2026 edition to 72nd in 2027 and from 65th in the U.S. News global table of 2025 to 56th in the 2026-2027 edition, while holding a place in the world top fifty of the Academic Ranking of World Universities在各大榜单中，该校由 2026 年版 QS 的第 68 位变为 2027 年的第 72 位，由 2025 年美国新闻全球榜单的第 65 位升至 2026 至 2027 年版的第 56 位，同时在世界大学学术排名中保持世界前五十的位置

Student life

• The motto of the university is the Latin phrase Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis, rendered as education is the guardian of the state, a Latinisation of Mirabeau B. Lamar's remark that the cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy学校校训为拉丁语「Disciplina Praesidium Civitatis」，意为「教育乃国家之护卫」，系把米拉波·B·拉马尔「有教养的心智是民主的守护神」一语拉丁化而成
• At athletic events students sing the fight song Texas Fight and display the Hook 'em Horns hand gesture, which mimics the horns of the university's mascot Bevo, a Texas Longhorn steer在体育赛事中，学生会高唱战歌 Texas Fight 并比出 Hook 'em Horns 手势，这一手势模仿学校吉祥物、一头名为 Bevo 的得州长角牛的双角
• The Texas Cowboys maintain Smokey, a 1,200-pound replica Civil War artillery cannon fired at football games, and the university's alma mater The Eyes of Texas is sung at the close of major gatherings得州牛仔会保管着斯莫基——一门 1,200 磅重的内战火炮复制品，在橄榄球赛时鸣放，学校校歌 The Eyes of Texas 则在重大集会结束前唱响
• Athletics are organised as the Texas Longhorns, who have won fifty national championships, forty-two of them sanctioned by the NCAA, including four national football titles in 1963, 1969, 1970 and 2005校队以「得州长角牛」之名参赛，共夺得五十项全国冠军，其中四十二项为美国大学生体育协会认可的冠军，包括 1963 年、1969 年、1970 年与 2005 年四次全国橄榄球冠军
• The baseball team has reached the College World Series thirty-five times, more than any other university, and won the title in 1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002 and 2005, while the men's and women's swimming and diving teams claim sixteen NCAA titles棒球队三十五次打进大学世界系列赛，次数超过任何其他大学，并在 1949 年、1950 年、1975 年、1983 年、2002 年与 2005 年夺冠，男子与女子游泳跳水队则共获十六项美国大学生体育协会冠军
• About fourteen per cent of undergraduates belong to fraternities or sororities, and with more than sixty-five national chapters the Greek community is among the largest in the country, most of its houses lying west of the Drag in the West Campus neighbourhood约百分之十四的本科生加入兄弟会或姐妹会，拥有六十多个全国性分会，是规模最大的希腊式社团群体之一，其会所多位于 Drag 街以西的西校区一带
• Student media include The Daily Texan, described as the most award-winning daily college newspaper in the United States, the humour magazine Texas Travesty, the television station Texas Student Television and the radio station KVRX学生媒体包括被称为全美获奖最多的大学日报《得州日报》、幽默杂志《得州滑稽报》、电视台得州学生电视以及电台 KVRX
• Alumni and staff are served by Texas Exes, the official alumni association, and its magazine The Alcalde, founded in 1913校友与教职工由官方校友组织 Texas Exes 及其创办于 1913 年的杂志《阿尔卡尔德》联系
• Below the age of the classical campus, the university lives within a city of music and technology, and the surrounding West Campus and Guadalupe Street corridor, known as the Drag, forms the everyday social centre of student life在古典校园的底色之下，学校处在一座以音乐与科技著称的城市之中，周边被称为 Drag 的西校区与瓜达卢佩街一带构成了学生日常社交的中心

Notable people

• The university was established by the State of Texas under the constitution of 1876 and opened in 1883, and its first president, Ashbel Smith, a physician and diplomat who had served as surgeon general of the Republic of Texas, laid the cornerstone of the Old Main Building in 1882学校依据 1876 年宪法由得克萨斯州设立，1883 年开学，其首任校长阿什贝尔·史密斯是一位医生兼外交官，曾任得克萨斯共和国军医总监，并于 1882 年安放了旧主楼的奠基石
• Mirabeau B. Lamar, president of the Republic of Texas, is remembered as the father of Texas education, and his phrase that the cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy underlies the university's Latin motto得克萨斯共和国总统米拉波·B·拉马尔被誉为得州教育之父，他「有教养的心智是民主的守护神」一语成为学校拉丁文校训的由来
• James P. Allison, an immunologist and graduate of the university, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018 for the discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation, and E. Donnall Thomas, another alumnus, received the same prize in 1990 for work on bone-marrow transplantation该校毕业生、免疫学家詹姆斯·P·艾利森因发现通过抑制免疫负调控来治疗癌症的方法，于 2018 年共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，另一位校友 E·唐纳尔·托马斯则因骨髓移植研究于 1990 年获同一奖项
• J. M. Coetzee, who took his doctorate at the university, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, and Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News anchor once called the most trusted man in America, also studied there在该校取得博士学位的 J·M·库切于 2003 年获诺贝尔文学奖，曾被称作全美最受信任之人的哥伦比亚广播公司晚间新闻主播沃尔特·克朗凯特也曾在此就读
• Michael Dell founded the computer company Dell from his student room in Austin in 1984, and Rex Tillerson, a graduate and former chief executive of ExxonMobil, served as United States secretary of state from 2017 to 2018迈克尔·戴尔 1984 年在奥斯汀的学生宿舍创办了计算机公司戴尔，校友、埃克森美孚前首席执行官雷克斯·蒂勒森则于 2017 至 2018 年出任美国国务卿
• James Baker, a graduate, was White House chief of staff, secretary of the treasury and secretary of state, and Tom C. Clark served as attorney general of the United States from 1945 to 1949 and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967校友詹姆斯·贝克曾任白宫办公厅主任、财政部长与国务卿，汤姆·C·克拉克则于 1945 至 1949 年任美国司法部长、1949 至 1967 年任最高法院大法官
• Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Laura Bush, wife of President George W. Bush, both graduated from the university, as did their daughters Lynda Johnson Robb and Jenna Bush Hager总统林登·B·约翰逊的夫人伯德·约翰逊与总统乔治·W·布什的夫人劳拉·布什均毕业于该校，她们的女儿琳达·约翰逊·罗布与珍娜·布什·哈格也是如此
• Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who studied at the university, served as president of Peru, and Salam Fayyad, who took a doctorate in economics there, became prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority曾在该校就读的费尔南多·贝朗德·特里曾任秘鲁总统，在该校取得经济学博士学位的萨拉姆·法耶兹则出任巴勒斯坦民族权力机构总理
• Robert Cade, a professor at the university, led the team that invented the sports drink Gatorade in 1965, and the astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon, was an alumnus该校教授罗伯特·凯德在 1965 年率领团队发明了运动饮料佳得乐，第四位在月球上行走的宇航员艾伦·比恩也是该校校友
• Among actors and film-makers, Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger graduated from the university and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson wrote their first feature, Bottle Rocket, while studying there, and Janis Joplin also attended在演员与电影人中，马修·麦康纳与蕾妮·齐薇格毕业于该校，韦斯·安德森与欧文·威尔逊在校期间共同写出了他们的首部长片《瓶装火箭》，歌手詹尼斯·乔普林也曾在此就读
• Athletes who passed through the university include the basketball most valuable player Kevin Durant, the golfer Jordan Spieth and the seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, and the university's students and alumni had earned 155 Olympic medals by 2021曾在该校就读的运动员包括篮球最有价值球员凯文·杜兰特、高尔夫球手乔丹·斯皮思与七次获赛扬奖的罗杰·克莱门斯，截至 2021 年该校学生与校友共获得 155 枚奥运奖牌
• Cindy Yen, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, producer and actress, graduated in 2008 with degrees in piano performance and broadcast journalism, and the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Admiral William H. McRaven, who organised the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, are also alumni台湾创作歌手、制作人兼演员袁咏琳于 2008 年毕业，取得钢琴演奏与广播新闻双学位，天体物理学家尼尔·德格拉斯·泰森与策划了致本·拉登死亡突袭行动的海军上将威廉·H·麦克雷文同样是该校校友