The College of Natural Sciences is the second largest college at The University of Texas at Austin, with 9 departments and schools, over 8,000 students, and 33 research units.

Established: 1970
Dean: Dr. Mary Ann Rankin

Faculty

(Updated August 2009)

• More than 600 faculty
• 15 members of the National Academies
• 2 Nobel Laureates
• 1 Turing Award winner
• 17 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1 National Medal of Science
• 1 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
• 1 Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
• 2 Howard Hughes Early Career Scientists

Students

• Approx. 8,000 undergraduates
• Approx. 1,800 graduate students

Extramural Funding

• $99 million/year (average 2002-2006)

National Rankings

(From U.S. News & World Report 2009)

• Ecology, Evolution and Behavior - 8
• Analytical Chemistry - 5
• Computer Sciences - 9
• Artificial Intelligence - 5
• Programming Language - 8
• Computing Systems - 8
• Computing Theory - 10
• Mathematical Analysis - 10
• Applied Math - 9
• Topology - 7
• Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity - 8
• Plasma - 5

By the number

• 3000 strains of living algae in the Culture Collection of Algae
• 11.1 x 9.8 meters - the size of the primary mirror in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, currently the world's third largest optical telescope
• 1,000,000 plant specimens in the Plant Resources Center, the largest herbarium in the southwestern U.S.
• 887 species of moths found at BFL
• 185, 708 acres in the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, managed by the Marine Science Institute to promote research, education and stewardship of coastal estuaries