Rankings and Awards

Some of UNT's Nationally Ranked Programs

Environmental Ethics & Philosophy
World's leading graduate program (International Association of Environmental Philosophy, 2000)
Play Therapy Training facility
Largest in the world
School of Music
One of the nation's best (Schools that Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide)
School of Visual Art & Design
One of the nation's most comprehensive
Jazz Studies Graduate Program
Rated nation's best (America's Best Graduate Schools)
Health Librarianship
2nd in U.S. (U.S. News and World Report)
Public Administration - MA
10th in U.S. & 1st in Texas - in city management & urban policy (U.S. News and World Report)
Art Education
13th in U.S. (Studies in Art Education, Fall 1998)
Emergency Administration & Planning - BS
Nation's 1st and largest in U.S.
Management - BBA
First Tier Regional Program (Entrepreneur Magazine, May 2004)
Radio, Television and Film
Top 8 Undergraduate Programs (This Business of Broadcasting, 2005)
Top 5 Graduate Programs (This Business of Broadcasting, 2005)
Rehabilitation Counseling - MS
25th in U.S. (U.S. News & World Report)

Other UNT Rankings

  • Top 4 % of U.S. universities: Doctoral/Research-Extensive (Carnegie Foundation)
  • A major research library with 5.9 million cataloged holdings (U.S. Department of Education)
  • The Best Western Colleges: 121 Great Schools to Consider (Princeton Review)
  • #1 Choice for transfer students in Texas (U.S. News and World Report)
  • Top 100 U.S. universities for Hispanic students
  • Eight Journalism alumni with Pulitzer Prizes, the nation's top award for writing
  • One of the largest logistics and supply chain management programs in southwestern United States
  • One of the nation's top 100 universities (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
  • 60 research and service centers, including the internationally recognized Center for Collaborative Organizations
  • NCAA Division 1-A athletics
  • Center for Spanish Language Media, one of the first comprehensive research and training programs for Spanish-speaking media professionals