About the System
The University of North Texas System serves the North Texas area, boosting economic activity in the region by nearly $2 billion annually. About 36,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs, and system enrollment is projected to increase to about 45,000 students
by 2015.
System/component Highlights

UNT faculty member selected for one-year position as NSF program director
Shobhana Chelliah, a professor in the University of North Texas Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication, has been selected as a Full story...

French horn players try to break Guinness record at UNT
Hundreds of horn players are expected to gather at the University of North Texas on May 19 (Saturday) in an effort to set a Guinness World Record for having the largest horn Full story...

UNT employee receives prestigious national award
for service
Junior Amy Schade was one of 61 students selected nationally for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's 2012 Exceptional Research Opportunities Program. When Amy Schade arrived at the University of North Texas in the fall of 2010, she wasn't sure whether she wanted to pursue a degree in biology or history. But after participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's National Genomics Research Initiative, her path was clear. "In my freshman biology courses we had the opportunity to isolate, purify and sequence viruses that infect bacteria," says Schade. "It was my first exposure to research and I fell in love with it. It solidified my interest in biology." Schade, a junior from Grapevine, had the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research Full story...