University of Texas at Dallas
 The University of Texas at Dallas (also referred to as UT Dallas or UTD) is a public research university in the University of Texas System. The main campus is in Richardson Texas Telecom Corridor 18 miles (29 km) north of downtown Dallas. The institution established in 1961 as the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest and later renamed the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies (SCAS) began as a research arm of Texas Instruments.