The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has achieved its stellar reputation in graduate education based on a simple formula: engage top students with top faculty, and together they create the technological knowledge needed to solve critical global problems.
As a graduate student at the Cockrell School, you become part of a longstanding tradition of excellence and success. Whether your focus is local or global, your graduate education generates opportunities for truly making a difference across every spectrum of society.
The Cockrell School awarded its first masters degree in 1921 to J. Guiton Morgan in civil engineering. In 1935, Frank Van Lue Patten received the first doctorate in chemical engineering. Since then, more than 15,100 masters and 5,100 doctor degrees have been awarded to men and women from every state and more than 95 countries around the world. Today, the Cockrell School has an enrollment of 885 masters and 1,150 doctor students, and awards more than 650 graduate degrees annually.
