The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research, liberal arts, fine arts, performing arts, and professional institution of higher learning based in Denton. Ten colleges, two schools, and an early admissions math and science academy for exceptional high-school-age students from across the state comprise the university. Its research is driven by nearly 50 doctoral degree programs. The original campus in Denton had a 2011–2012 budget of $872.3 million, of which $25.4 million was allocated for research.
Founded as a non-secular, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and adopted by the State in 1901, UNT, in more recent years, prevailed in launching three new institutions in the most populated primary statistical area in Texas and the seventh largest in the country: (i) a medical school and hospital in Fort Worth, (ii) a university in South Dallas, and (iii) the only public law school in the region (opening in 2014). UNT and its three sister institutions are governed by University of North Texas System — a system established in 1980 by the Board of Regents and legislatively recognized in 2003 by the 78th Texas Legislature. In 2011, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board identified UNT as one of eight Emerging Research Institutions in its accountability system. Certified enrollment as of the fall of 2011 was 35,694, the fourth largest in the state. For the 2011 academic year, the university awarded 8,608 degrees, of which 24 percent were at the graduate level. North Texas awarded 459 PhD degrees from fiscal years 2009 to 2011.
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