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UT Arlington is the third-largest producer of college graduates in Texas and offers over 180 baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree programs. [11] [12] UT Arlington participates in 15 intercollegiate sports as a Division I member of the NCAA and Western Athletic Conference. UTA sports teams have been known as the Mavericks since 1971.
The UTA Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution in September of that year to increase admission standards, [120] which was approved by the Board of Regents in November to help recruit students. [121] In November 2004, a UTA committee reported to the university provost that the school's graduation rate was too low. [122]
Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States.It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Brigham Young University: Provo: Private (not for profit) Research Universities [11] 34,499 1875 BYU-Hawaii, BYU-Idaho, Jerusalem, Salt Lake City Broadview University: West Jordan: Private (for profit) Baccalaureate / Associates Colleges 69 1977 West Jordan, Salt Lake City Columbia College Utah: Murray: Private (not for profit)
In the mid-1980s, the College of Engineering added three new buildings: Nedderman Hall, the Aerodynamics Research Center, and the Automation & Robotics Research Institute (now known as the UT Arlington Research Institute, or UTARI). The original engineering building, Woolf Hall, was also remodeled.
The specific origins of the College of Engineering Sciences was the Mechanical Arts department. This was organized as a separate department in 1921, although the first teacher at BYU to give classes in subjects related to this department had been Karl G. Maeser (in many ways the intellectual father of BYU). In 1951, the department was renamed ...
Metcalf was the former director of the Harvard Library, and consulted with Tyler about the plans for BYU's new library. [9] BYU commissioned Lorenzo Snow Young to make the plans for addition. [10] The J. Reuben Clark Library was completed in 1961. [11] The library's collection reached 500,000 volumes in 1965, [12] and one million volumes by 1971.
A BYU student team placed #1 at the University of Arizona's annual ethics competition (Duel in the Desert) in 2006 and 2007, [86] and a team of undergraduate accounting students placed #1 in the 2007 Deloitte Tax Case Competition—marking BYU's seventh consecutive first- or second-place finish in this division. [87]