This is the starting point for learning how to become part of the University. In considering your application to UT-Austin, you may first want to review the various undergraduate or graduate degrees we offer.

The information you need as a prospective student depends on the type of applicant you are. Each category below includes information on admission requirements and procedures, and describes how to contact the appropriate campus office by conventional postal service, telephone, fax, or e-mail. Except for the School of Law, each category also provides a link to UT's online admission application and, for those with applications already on file, an online application status check.

International
Student

An international student is anyone who is not a U.S. citizen and does not hold a U.S. Permanent Resident Visa (i.e. "Green Card"). This category includes international applicants at all levels (entering freshman, transfer, and graduate). Prospective international students can request a graduate or undergraduate application online.

Entering
Freshman

If you are, or soon will be, a high school graduate with no previous college attendance, apply as an entering freshman. You can apply as an entering freshman if you have taken college courses while still in high school, but if you graduated from high school and took any college coursework afterward you should apply as a transfer student (see below).

Undergraduate
Transfer
Student

If you attended a college or university after leaving high school, apply as a transfer student. You are considered a transfer student even if you withdrew from the college before earning any credit or if you earned only nontransferable credit; completion of at least 24 semester hours (or the equivalent) of transferable credit is required for transfer admission consideration.

If you already have a bachelor's degree and want to earn a second undergraduate degree you should apply as a transfer student, but if you just want to take UT undergraduate courses without pursuing a second degree apply as a nondegree undergraduate.

Graduate
Student

If you have at least a bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, from an accredited college or university and wish to pursue a master's or doctorate degree, apply as a graduate student. Prospective graduate students can request an application online.

Re-admission
Student

If you are a former UT-Austin student and wish to resume study at the University, apply as a Re-admission student. (Note: if you are a former UT-Austin graduate student seeking to return at the graduate level it may be necessary for you to apply as a graduate applicant. Read the Re-admission page first to determine which procedures apply in your case.)

Summer
Transient
Student

If you are a student at another college or university and wish to attend UT-Austin as a visiting student during the summer only, apply as a transient student.

Law
School
Admission

The School of Law has its own admission office, separate from the main campus, with distinct procedures, requirements, and Web presence.

Other
information
for
prospective
students

• On-campus housing information, from the Division of Housing & Food Service.

• Financial aid information, from the Office of Student Financial Services.

• Orientation information, from the Dean of Students Office.

• Catalogs, course schedules, & the official University calendar, published online by the Office of the Registrar.

• Typical undergraduate expenses and current tuition rates for all student categories.

• Immunization requirements for all entering students, from University Health Services.

• How to establish Texas resident status for tuition & admission purposes.

• Course placement and credit-by-exam opportunities from the Measurement & Evaluation Center.

• Transfer credit information, including online access to UT's course equivalency database, community college Transfer Guides, common transfer credit problems, and catalog policies governing transfer of credit.

• How to take guided tours of the campus.

• Honors Central provides information about honors programs available at the University.

• The 1999 Student Profile: statistical information about the UT-Austin student body. (For trendwatchers, the 1998, 1997, 1996, and 1995 editions are also available.)

• The Houston Admissions Center, our pied-à-terre in the Bayou City.

• Exes for Texas (for alumni) and SHARE (for current UT students) give you the opportunity to get involved in UT's recruitment effort. Help us attract top students to your University!

• Evening class opportunities, without need of formal UT admission, from University Extension.

• The first interactive Aggie joke on the World Wide Web. A UT exclusive, consistently popular for three years running!