University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is a public research university in Denton, Texas, about 35 miles north of Dallas. It opened in 1890 as Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute, later operated as North Texas State University, and took its present name in 1961. The Denton campus is the flagship of the University of North Texas System, which also includes a Dallas campus and a health science center in Fort Worth. The institution grew from a teachers college into a comprehensive research university whose College of Music is a defining unit.

Instruction runs through colleges of liberal arts and social sciences, science, engineering, business, education, information, health and public service, visual arts and design, and music, with graduate degrees administered by the Toulouse Graduate School. Fields most associated with the campus include jazz and music education, materials science, information science, education, and logistics. Discovery Park houses engineering laboratories north of the main campus.

About 47,000 students enroll, among the largest totals in Texas, with several thousand in graduate programs. International students come from more than 100 countries. The instructional faculty exceeds 1,000. Alumni include jazz vocalist Norah Jones, football player Joe Greene, and journalist Bill Moyers.

Master's and doctoral work combines coursework with a thesis or dissertation under faculty supervision. The calendar is a fall-spring semester with summer terms. Teaching and research assistantships are the usual support for doctoral students. Denton is a college town on rail links into Dallas-Fort Worth, so graduate students live between a compact campus and the metroplex labor market.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of North Texas lists 3 graduate programs across 3 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in computer science, education and information systems & MIS.