President’s Message
Pathway to ERU
Student Success
Educational Opportunities
Research Impacting the RGV and beyond
Health and Medical Education
Institutional Advancement
Community Engagement
Construction
Pillars of Success
President’s Message
Pathway to ERU
Student Success
Educational Opportunities
Research Impacting the RGV and beyond
Health and Medical Education
Institutional Advancement
Community Engagement
Construction
Pillars of Success
President ’s Message
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is proud to present our 2016-17 Annual Report. This report highlights a few of our most significant accomplishments over the past year and highlights UTRGV’s progress toward becoming an emerging research university. We have much to be proud of as we enter our third year; we also have much work to do. All of the accomplishments mentioned throughout this report and all of those not mentioned reflect the hard work and dedication of our students, faculty, and staff. It also reflects the incredible support we receive from our alumni, donors, elected officials, and other members of the Rio Grande Valley community. We continue to have the most exciting opportunity in American higher education, and we look forward to continuing our work together to take advantage of this opportunity and to make UTRGV a success.
Guy Bailey, UTRGV President
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Educational Opportunities
Research Impacting the RGV and beyond
Health and Medical Education
Institutional Advancement
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Educational Opportunities
Research Impacting the RGV and beyond
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Construction
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Student Success Over 10,000
79%
Degrees awarded since UTRGV opened in 2015.
First-year retention rates for Fall 2016 full-time students.
35.5%
1,324
Students enrolled in at least 15 hours for Fall 2017.
Transfer students, an increase of 292 from Fall 2015.
60%
79%
Undergraduate students receiving Pell Grants.
Students receiving some form of financial aid.
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Educational Opportunities
New Graduate and Professional Programs: Traditional:
MS in Ocean, Coastal and Earth Sciences MS in Agricultural, Environmental, and Sustainability Sciences BS in Hospitality and Tourism Management (Fall 2018)
Accelerated:
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership MS in Nursing Administration MS in Nursing Education
Expansions:
Mathematics and Science Academy (expanded to Edinburg Campus) Physician Assistant studies program (from 50 students to 100 by 2019)
13
New graduate programs under development.
12
Gilman Scholarships awarded to students for study abroad, the second most in the UT System.
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Research Impacting the RGV and beyond
Health and Medical Education
Institutional Advancement
Community Engagement
Construction
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Research
Impacting the Rio Grande Valley and Beyond 48%
Current students majoring in STEM/ health fields.
$28.7 million
Research expenditures for 2016-17, a 60.7% increase from three-year average (FY 2013-15) of legacy institutions.
$27.1 million Projected 2017-18 research expenditures.
$15 million
Awarded to the School of Medicine by The Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation to help establish the UTRGV Institute of Neurosciences.
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Health and Medical Education
50
139
Medical students enrolled in the School of Medicine’s second cohort (104 overall).
Medical residents working at four hospitals and other institutions throughout the Valley.
92.48%
Over 1,500
Pass rate of nursing students on board exams.
Patients served, so far, by the medical mobile unit, Unimóvil.
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Institutional
Advancement $33,652,324 Private fundraising total for 2016-17.
$62,069,664
Private fundraising since UTRGV inception.
$87 million
UTRGV’s total endowment, an increase of 13% from the combined endowment ($77 million) of the legacy institutions in 2015.
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Community Engagement 26,153
Volunteer/Service learning hours in the community logged through Engagement Zone.
Over 20,000
Campus visitors who experienced the “T-Rex named Sue” exhibit during its three-month run.
Over 100,000
Students and their chaperones participated in the 15th Annual Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technology (HESTEC) Week.
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Construction Projects Underway:
Music, Science and Learning Center in Brownsville Science Research Building in Edinburg Interdisciplinary Engineering and Academic Building in Edinburg STARGATE Building on Boca Chica Beach Medical Research Facility at DHR in McAllen Community Garden in Brownsville MPAC – Interdisciplinary Academic Building in Brownsville Weslaco Center for Innovation and Commercialization Lab and Dock for Coastal Studies in Port Isabel
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Affordability UTRGV has the third-lowest resident undergraduate tuition and fees among Texas public universities. Rates are guaranteed not to increase for up to four years and are capped at 12 semester credit hours (some exclusions apply). In addition, more than three-quarters of UTRGV students receive some form of financial aid, and UTRGV is ranked No. 1 in lowest overall costs for low-income students among all the nation’s fouryear public research universities.
Quality UTRGV was ranked in Forbes Magazine America’s Top Colleges each of the past two years and debuted in this year’s U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. UTRGV also ranked fourth among the “Top 20 Best Online Colleges in Texas” by OnlineCollegePlan.com, and is the eighth best college in Texas, according to CollegeConsensus.com
Impact UTRGV has been recognized for its ability to enroll a large number of students from low-income backgrounds and graduate them into promising careers that help them climb the income scale. UTRGV was named a Social Mobility Innovator (SMI) by CollegeNET Inc., which ranks four-year U.S. colleges and universities according to social mobility. UTRGV also ranked fifth nationally among the “Top Colleges by Mobility Rate.”