Thanks all for the info. I think UTD web is a bit outdated, it showed comet19 is $6.54 per meal, that will be $1988 per 16 week semester. The brochure my DD received says $2200. My DD is also in engineering so $8K tuition per semester is a safe bet? It is a little off target cause earlier this year we saw someone said around $6200.
Just found this thread. My son received his AES today. 8k per semester. Last week he got an email stating an anticipated waiver amount per semester. My Question. Is AES included in the anticipated waiver.
Has anyone else received similar. Thanks.
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Thatâs correct. Once NMF are announced and one names UTD as their first choice, they will be awarded the NMS scholarship.
The process is rather long and confusing, but it will all come together at the end.
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Since UTD took away McDermott, raised tuition dramatically, removed Terry for transfer, scaled back AES, will you be able to assume UTD still fully funding NMF this year?
UTD may as well think they are as good as UT Austin and no longer funding or scaling back NMF.
I am wondering the same thing.
My D got a letter in the mail from UTD saying they are fully funding National Merit Finalists.
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Those letters are standard information and may be outdated. UTD hasnât changed their honor web site either since 2019. Tuition estimate also outdated as it is based on 20-21, not 21-22. Since UTD raised tuition every year for the last 8 years it is safe to assume 21-22 is 5-10% more.
I asked admission office and honors on NMF two weeks ago, both didnât give me straight answers. Specifically on the â$4000 stipend and $6000 study aboardâ the answer was âthere is a possibility the college will maintain theseâŠâ
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UTD scaled back their AES scholarships already last year. What you see this year is quite similar to what happened in Dec 2019.
I wouldnât worry about NMF,
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UTD is no match for UT Business, Engineering, Computer science and some natural science programs - they are top rated programs in US. UTD national ranking (142) is not improving over the last 20 years. Also, UTD is no match with UT and TAMU in terms of overall placements and Job offer packages. I understand there is upfront investment needed compared to UTD. Not sure why UTD has increased their tuition 34% in last few years and now they are cutting AES. Just attracting NMFâs does not improve its standing. NMF related scholarships doesnât bring much diversity.
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@martark Interesting remark.
UTD was unknown to many Texans back in early 2000s. People know UTA, UTSA, and UTElPaso, even UT Tyler. UTD was more like community college back then, so UTD did improve their image a lot the last 10 years.
Ranking mainly achieved by research in graduate schools. And thatâs the reason the size of endowment matters when Austin is in billions while UTD has only millions. And ranking sometimes wonât show the reality. UT Austin has an unranked medical school (Dell) but you may not know it is the hardest med school you can get into in Texas now.
UT El Paso and Arlington also achieved R1 tier designation about the same time as UTD.
Tuition surge in UTD (being most expensive public university in Texas for over a decade) is likely because of how they finance AES, it is âpay it backwardsâ- the new freshmen pay for the previous three years they have to honor. If they keep it balanced every year the surge wonât be that significant. That said, scaling back AES may be a financially responsible move and obviously it will hurt their student recruitment effort (they are still advertising the old data so one should expect their drop in student quality in class of 2026 onwards)
As some UTD seniors said in reddit UTD is worth going if you can get in cheap. So the higher average SAT is artificially boosted by AES, and it is not the same as the flagship campus like UIUC, UM, UCB and Austin where high stat students actually compete to go there.
UTD is still a good school. It is same R1 research school like Arlington and El Paso. My dad working HR in Toyota said last year, they hired more UTA graduates than UTD as their post graduate students are equally impressive and UTA has been far more diverse than UTD. (UTD has too many Asians and Toyota is not lack of thatâŠ)
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Agreed, UTD still a good school for students based on their preference - with the cut back in AES awards it doesnât make much of a case for high achieving students with admission to UT and A&M to join UTD by incurring almost similar costs. This will definitely drop UTDâs current best value ranking.
Initial ROI for UT degrees tends to be higher in many of the programs based on the placement numbers posted. Also, with many companies moving to the Astin area demand for UT and A&M grads is going to be high.
These days a lot of research is occurring during undergrad programs; the ranking of schools is also being done specifically based on undergraduate programs.
When does UTD send out honors invitation ?
Depends on what honors you are referring.
National Merit Honors you will need to wait until you receive NMF letter and then submit to UTD.
Department Honors you can apply now. E.g. Business schoolâs Davidson Management Honors Program apply here https://jindal.utdallas.edu/som/application/davidson-mhp/
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Thanks for your response.
D21 is NMSF and would like to apply for computer science honors.
So far havenât seen any option to apply for CS honors.
Want to make sure, she is not missing anything.
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Congratulations to your D21.
CS is the largest department in UTD with over 3300 undergraduates so 1 out of 6 UTD students is studying CS.
For CS2, you have to be an AES recipient since the review committee pick from the poll of AES. A $13K/$16K most likely required but may change due to scaling back this year.
The review is automatic in March and April, right now you can have your D21âs high school teacher/professor/boss (if held a job before) write letters of nomination and submit to UTD. You may also want to submit 12th grade fall updated transcript. The Computer Scholars Honor counts heavily on math and science, so having updated transcript will help (e.g. AP statistics/Calculus BC/Chemistry/Physics1/2/CâŠ). Uploading an expanded resume showcasing previous CS related projects will also help.
Note that each freshman class has about 820 CS students, and they only pick 30 students for honor. Some past CS students mentioned if you have AES, doing the fast track program to get MS degree in CS is also a great option.
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Thanks for the great suggestions. Iâll have my D look into these.
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I think this statement is not nuanced enough. It was not like a community college - it was a graduate school from the 1960s-1990. A specialized graduate institute is completely different than a 4-year undergraduate school. UTD did not welcome freshmen until 1990, and then it was only 100.
And in 1990 when the Texas legislature allowed UTD to begin allowing Freshmen and Sophomores - they put a strict rule in place that they had to have the same high admission standards as UT Austin (Still canât get use to calling it that - my dad, a 1962 grad always said there was UT and then the others). Lawmakers did not want UTD to be poaching freshmen from UT Arlington, North Texas State (UNT), East Texas State (TAMU - Commerce) etc.
So UTD is different in its growth and appeal. And that legacy continues. We are not from the Dallas area - but many students from our âhigh performingâ high school who did not get their major or got CAP at UT - pick UTD over TAMU. While TAMU is very popular in this area - a whole lot of students here do not consider it.
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@BlueBayouAZ Not for the sake of argument I do agree with most of your points.
My dad taught UTD CS data structure and Java from 1999-2005, back then he said most of his students were working adults fulfilling job requirements. Some classes were held in evening in rented Nortel building in Richardson. It was around 2004-05 when he started seeing more real HS graduates.
Now UTD enrolls over 20K undergraduates, and 3300 of them are CS students with dedicated building and research, a very different scenario in a little over a decade.
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And I think @martark made a good point- If a student has high stats, there is no reason to pay more to study in UTD instead of UT Austin and A&M, as many high stat students not getting much from AES this year. For borderline high stats that got capped in UT, if they donât receive significant AES from UTD this year, A&M is a better choice.
If the student is aiming for research, UT and A&M have far more opportunities in research and greater opportunities to more prestigious graduate schools.
UTD has few exceptions, if you are CS Scholars, UTD will have great options for Junior and Senior Internship that earns professional level income. So for high stat students, UTD CS2 may be better than UT Austin without honor, and thatâs for those who aim for jobs right out of school. But note that CS2 is only about 120 out of over 3300 CS students.
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I think this discussion is better served at a âUT VS A&M VS UTD threadâ.
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