1201 W. University Drive
Edinburg, TX 78539-2999

University of Texas-Pan American, located in the Rio Grande Valley, is the tenth largest university in the state and the fifth largest in the University of Texas System. UTPA leads the nation in the number of bachelor's and master's degrees awarded to Hispanics. The main campus of the University of Texas-Pan American is in Edinburg, Texas, less than a half-hour from the U.S.-Mexico border.

More than 17,000 students, from 28 different states and over 40 countries, comprise the student body. Most of the University of Texas-Pan American's students are from Texas. Students can pursue from 54 bachelor's and 50 master's degrees, two doctoral and one cooperative doctoral pharmacy program. More than 2,000 of the University of Texas-Pan American's graduate students are enrolled in 48 graduate level programs.

UTPA offers a Ph.D. in business Administration with an emphasis in International business, one of half a dozen such degree programs in the United States.

Quick Facts

The University of Texas-Pan American student body is more than 85 percent Hispanic--the highest number and highest percentage of Hispanics enrolled in any Texas public university.

UTPA educates the most Mexican-American students in the nation.

Thirty-five percent of the faculty is Hispanic and more than 50 percent are minority.

Approximately 28 percent of the graduating class awarded a Bachelor's of Science in nursing are males, compared to the national average of 10 percent.

On average, sixty two percent of UTPA students who apply to medical schools are accepted.

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