The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Top Questions

Describe your favorite campus traditions.

Travis

I think our school is probably best known for being conservative, and for bringing about alot of educators into the system.

Brianna

University of Texas Pan-American is best known for being the world leader in nano technology advancements. UTPA is a very community orriented campus in the town of Edinburg, Texas. UTPa also has a large athletic department as well as a large technological department.

Lisa

My school is known best for having one of the best engineering programs in the country.

Felipe

Its ranked as the 32nd school in a list of the top 100 America's Best Public Colleges in the 2009 Forbes magazine. It also ranks 2nd nationally for bachelor's degrees awarded to Hispanics and 3rd for master's degrees.

Sandra

The University of Texas Pan American is mostly known for being the fastest growing university on South Texas and is the 10th largesst in the state of Texas. It is also ranked for the number of degrees awarded to Hispanics. This university also provides students with a variety of activites to keep students involved with there education. One such event is held before finals and is called "Midnight Breakfast". The campus does this to provide students with a meal while they are studying for their finals. Its a great campus!

Dalia

Being composed of mostly hispanics and being a commuter university.

Nancy

In my point of view, it is best known for its Theatre and Film Department. Our University of Texas Pan American is the only university in the Rio Grande Valley that has an active amount of students that have worked with films and have a huge background in professional theatre and have worked with actors like Valente Rodriguez in the star hit comedy show, George Lopez. Even people from Brownsville have traveled to Edinburg to watch plays like Mice and Men, when they adopted a shy and abused dog that played a perfect role in the play.

Juan

It is known for producing the highest number of graduating hispanics in the country.

Christina

My School i believe is best know for its school Spirit and community out reach programs that they sponser. It is alot of fun to work with community projects.

Ricardo

best known for being a commuter hispanic based school. I believe it we have a really great engineering program or so i've heard....Being a communications major I can't really speak for it. I say overall all the programs are more than fairly good and the instruction (or at least the instruction I've had) has always been fair.