With more than 18,600 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate degree programs, UTSA is the third largest component university in the University of Texas System and has been one of the state's fastest-growing public universities for much of the last decade. UTSA offers 88 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs and with six new doctoral programs in the planning stages, is rapidly moving toward classification as a doctoral-granting institution. The University's three campuses provide access and opportunity for large numbers of historically underserved students. More than 50 percent of UTSA's students come from groups underrepresented in higher education.
Many students are the first in their family to attend a college or university.
There are more than 14 buildings on the 1604 campus. The UTSA Downtown Campus, located at the intersection of Durango Boulevard and Frio Street on the city's near West Side, is a full-service educational center with two major buildings and a third under construction. More than 3,000 students attend classes and pursue degrees at the campus, which opened in 1997. The Institute of Texan Cultures, located on 22 acres just west of I-37 at Durango Boulevard, welcomes more than 300,000 visitors a year to its exhibit floor, which contains more than 50,000 square feet of exhibits about the many ethnic and cultural groups that settled Texas. A third of the ITC's visitors are school children from throughout the state.