Hey, what's up?

I'm Ferrari St. Paul,
with YOUniversity TV,

where we put you
in university.

Today we're here at
the University of Texas

at Arlington,
home of the Mavericks.

Come join us on our tour.

UT Arlington is centrally
located in Arlington, Texas,

about halfway between
Dallas and Fort Worth,

offering students a wealth
of cultural entertainment,

careers and educational
opportunities.

Arlington is a marvelous
place to live.

It's also the fourth largest
metropolitan area

in the United States.

We are technically
the entertainment district.

Here pretty soon we're gonna get
the Dallas Cowboys' stadium.

We have the Texas Rangers'
stadium right up the street.

We have Six Flags,
we have Hurricane Harbor.

We have all the
restaurants right there.

Yeah, lots of different
places to go hang out.

UT Arlington's main campus
features a beautiful college

town look, and includes more
than a hundred buildings,

spanning from classic brick
exteriors to modern design.

The university also has
a downtown Fort Worth campus.

If you see a crowd of students
gathered around Hereford's head,

you know it's finals week.

They must be trying to
get their last bit of luck

before the big test.

Nearly 25,000 students
attend UT Arlington,

and about 5,000
live on campus.

The university features
a diverse student body

with minority and international
students making up almost

half of the population.

Here at UTA there's so much
culture and so much diversity

that not only am I learning
in the classroom, but I'm also

learning from my peers
around me because

everybody has a
different background.

It's not one majority culture.

Admission to the University
of Texas at Arlington is based

on a sliding scale incorporating
several factors like class rank

and SAT or ACT scores.

Students graduating in the top
25% of their high school class

are automatically admitted
as long as SAT or ACT scores

are submitted.

Yearly tuition for full-time
students taking 14 or more

credit hours is
just over $7,000.

If you're only taking 13
credit hours or less,

you'll pay less, just under
$7,000 a year.

My dad when I came to
orientation was in Iraq.

So my mother, she didn't know
how to go about getting loans,

so this young lady
named Jasmine,

she was an orientation leader,
she took my mother to

Davis Hall, got her a loan.

She just made my mother
feel comfortable,

which made me
feel comfortable,

'cause somebody took care of
my mother in a stressful time

of our lives.

If it's choices in education
you seek, UT Arlington offers

more than 180 different
Bachelor's, Master's,

and Doctoral degree programs.

Some of the most popular
majors include Engineering,

the Sciences, Nursing,
Architecture, Education,

and Business.

Kalpana Chawla is a UT
Arlington Engineering Alum.

She was the first Indian born
woman to travel into space.

This hall was built
in her honor.

The 1,100 faculty members
at UT Arlington are nationally

and internationally recognized
for their cutting edge research,

teaching expertise and
engagement in the community.

Fourteen men's and women's
Maverick athletic teams compete

at the Division I level in
the Southland Conference.

And the wheelchair
basketball team has won

the national championship
seven times.

UT Arlington students voted
to make Blaze their mascot.

To be a Maverick is much
more than a saying,

it means to be a visionary,
to be a leader.

Six residence halls,
17 apartment communities

and Greek housing gives
students at UT Arlington

a wealth of choices for
modern on-campus living.

The really great thing about
living in the dorms here

at UT Arlington is that we have
a living and learning program.

So you live in different
parts of the dorms that

adhere to the type of
major that you're in.

And in that way you get to know
people who are in the same major

or department that you are,
and you kind of build this uh,

this area of people that you can
go to when you have problems.

As if living in a large
metropolitan area

doesn't offer enough to do,
there are over 300

student organizations,
intramural, and club sports,

well known national
and international speakers,

and free Friday night concerts.

Just to name a few.

There's always something
to do in this area.

The options are endless.

In case you didn't know,
research is big at UT Arlington,

with expenditures reaching
$40 million in 2006-2007.

And that number is expected
to grow even higher.

To support that growth,
the university is building

a huge Engineering and
Science research building,

center for Structural
Engineering,

and a Civil Engineering
lab building.

Here at UT Arlington,
there is a growing emphasis

on involving Undergraduates
early on in real experiences,

not only in Physics,
or Physics research,

but in other departments
across the campus.

The university is also investing
in other parts of the campus,

with the recent addition
of a new activities center,

and the opening of
its Smart Hospital.

They also spend time here
in the Smart Hospital,

working with our
simulated patients,

which are human patient
simulators that are babies

and children.

They come in here and work
through scenarios just like

real life they would see in
a hospital or a clinic setting.

They work on skills
to assess the patient,

they work on skills to figure
out what kind of treatment

the patient needs,
and even work on skills

as to how to carry out
an order that a physician

or a nurse practitioner
would give them.

If you're looking for a forward
thinking university that offers

challenging real world
educational opportunities,

in the middle of one
of the largest metropolitan

areas in the country,
be sure to check out

the University of Texas
at Arlington today.

Thanks for joining us on our
tour of the University of Texas

at Arlington.

I'm Ferrari St. Paul,
and I am outta here.