About UNT
As one of the nation's largest universities, we offer 105 bachelor's, 88 master's and 37 doctoral degree programs. By providing access, welcoming diversity and strengthening our collaborations with our many educational, business and community partners, as well as building new partnerships across the globe, UNT's faculty and staff work each day to prepare students for the challenges they will meet in our changing world.
Location
A metropolitan area offers a wealth of job opportunities, plus entertainment, culture, shopping and professional sports. A college town offers a peaceful haven for study and research. UNT has the advantages of both. The university is located in Denton, a town of about 136,000 people only 36 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth, the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.
Mission and plans
UNT's Mission
At the University of North Texas, our caring and creative community prepares students for careers in a rapidly changing world.
UNT's Purpose
Our students will be the innovative leaders of tomorrow.
UNT's Vision
We will become globally known for collaborative and imaginative educational innovation and scholarly activity that transforms our students and benefits the world around us.
Faculty
At the heart of our efforts to carry out UNT's mission is the faculty. Faculty leadership in teaching, research, creative activities, performance and service activities has created national and international reputations for excellence for a number of academic programs within the university's 14 schools and colleges.
Faculty by college or school
Reports and facts
Research
Faculty and students engage in innovative research and creative activities that consistently break new ground. The exciting scholarship at UNT is broad based and far reaching, incorporating research in the humanities, social sciences and the arts, as well as the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Global partnerships
Fostering global understanding and promoting cultural appreciation are central to preparing tomorrow's successful global leaders. Our strategic international partnerships seek to improve quality of life, facilitate the exchange of ideas and culture, and allow for important research addressing global issues. UNT hosts visiting scholars and faculty from more than 50 countries and offers global learning and experience programs in more than 37 nations. UNT's campus also benefits from a rich diversity of international students.
Student access and success
As a public university, we bear a special responsibility to advance and improve society. Our faculty, staff and students take seriously this obligation to do more to make a difference.
UNT Emerald Eagle Scholars program
Gives academically talented undergraduates who have high financial need the best chance at success.
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Supports Texas' Closing the Gaps initiative by staffing Go Centers in high schools, where students can get information from current college students about college life and details about aid and admissions.
New Student Orientation and Transition Programs
Connects new students to campus resources and plugs them into UNT's academic and social community so they are more likely to graduate.
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Helps students start their college career off strong, define their future and take control of their success.
Diversity
We have a history of maintaining an unpretentious and accepting atmosphere that welcomes anyone who strives to achieve his or her personal best. UNT possesses and values an increasing diversity among the individuals who make up its community. This is one of our greatest strengths.
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Provides resources, information, educational opportunities and events that build inclusion by focusing on five areas of diversity: race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, interfaith and disability.
Fine arts
UNT offers more than 1,000 music concerts, art exhibitions and dance and theatre productions annually.
The College of Visual Arts and Design
Among the country's largest and most comprehensive public arts schools, CVAD offers lectures and artists' talks as well as rotating art exhibitions in four primary galleries.
The Murchison Performing Arts Center
Features two venues — Winspear Hall and the Lyric Theater — that showcase student talent. The outstanding acoustics in Winspear Hall are on par with the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas and the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth as premier music halls in the North Texas region.
The university's nationally recognized College of Music
Offers more than 1,000 concerts per year, most of them free. Concerts range from intimate solo and chamber music concerts to large-scale choral, orchestral, jazz and operatic productions.
The Department of Dance and Theatre
Provides an eclectic mix of drama, comedy and dance concerts each year.
UNT history and tradition
Join us
Education opens doors, changes lives and improves society. At UNT, we are committed to helping our more than 39,000 students succeed at whatever endeavor they seek to pursue. And we celebrate our more than 434,000 active alumni who use their UNT education to make a difference every day.