The University of Texas at San Antonio Top Questions

UTSA is a very diverse campus. There are students from all kinds of different backgrounds that come here.

The UTSA student body is diverse and outspoken, even as colleges go. There are strong cultural, degree-based, theistic / atheistic, political, and other groups of all kinds. Minorities in general, and the Latino poulation in specific, are very active and well-placed within the student community. Grossly generalizing, the student body seems to be left-leaning and religious apathetic, but there are also active conservative, moderate, Christian, athiest, and Muslim contingents on campus. Most of the student population comes from locations within Texas, but national and international students are not at all uncommon.

I haven't had any real experiences with certain groups on campus. I do know that there are people of every race, gender, and age here and everyone seems to fit in just fine. It is really great. Students here wear anything, from jeans and tshirts, to slacks and button up shirts, to pajama pants and a sweater. It is a very relax atmosphere, which I think is good because if the students are comfortable, they are more likely to continue school and learn better. All students here interact with each other with no problems that I have seen. When I do go to the JPL for lunch, there is such a mixture of students at each table. Again, different genders, different races, different majors, everything!! I really have no clue where most students here at UTSA come from or about financial backgrounds or about political preferences. Here in the engineering department we do talk about salaries of newly graduated engineers. And it is not so much just to talk about the money, it is more of a way to let us know how much our knowledge and hard work had paid off. When it comes time to getting a job, we need to know where to start discussing offers with employers.