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The University of Texas at Brownsville was awarded 96 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is homeland security, law enforcement & firefighting.
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College Factual ranked The University of Texas at Brownsville as #1,777 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when The University of Texas at Brownsville held the #1,954 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
The University of Texas at Brownsville is also ranked #94 out of 115 schools in Texas.
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If you are worried about getting into The University of Texas at Brownsville, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio at The University of Texas at Brownsville is 21 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at The University of Texas at Brownsville is 35%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 47% rate at The University of Texas at Brownsville is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,777 undergraduates at The University of Texas at Brownsville with 2,173 being full-time and 6,604 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,276 | $3,906 | $6,392 | $8,925 | $9,496 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of The University of Texas at Brownsville, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At The University of Texas at Brownsville, approximately 8% of students took out student loans averaging $4,120 a year. That adds up to $16,480 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at The University of Texas at Brownsville is 0.5%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for The University of Texas at Brownsville are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, TX 78520 |
| Phone: | 956-295-3600 |
| Website: | www.tsc.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UTB.TX |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/utbrownsville |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2020-2021, 5,511 students took at least one online class at The University of Texas at Brownsville. This is an increase from the 868 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 5,511 | 322 |
| 2019-2020 | 868 | 131 |
| 2018-2019 | 528 | 76 |
| 2017-2018 | 307 | 46 |
| 2016-2017 | 237 | 51 |
Learn more about online learning at The University of Texas at Brownsville.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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