Our programs facilitate our goals to support undergraduate student success and timely graduation. We help build supportive communities for all incoming students, provide supplemental academic resources for students seeking extra support, create alternative routes to becoming a Longhorn, offer incentive-based scholarships tied to performance, and ensure students have more opportunities to succeed once enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin. Combined, these programs are transforming our campus culture around student success.
First-Generation Student Support
First-Generation students come from families where neither parent or guardian has a four-year degree or higher from a college or university. Colleges, schools, and units across campus collaborate to ensure First-Gen Longhorns and their families are aware of and have access to the many resources available to them on campus to support their success.
Graduation Help Desk
The Graduation Help Desk consolidates all the tools available to help students stay on track to graduate and offers students assistance enrolling in classes required to fulfill degree requirements. Graduation Help Desk staff work with students, advisors, and faculty to resolve roadblocks to timely graduation.
Texas Excellence
The Texas Excellence scholarship programs awards students with excellent academic credentials an award of up to $20,000. Texas Excellence students are enrolled in all the colleges and schools at UT and may also be members of honors programs and other university organizations and communities.
Scholarships
Student Success Initiatives partners with the Office of Admissions and the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid to provide scholarships that recognize students’ hard work and help support their timely graduation.
Senior Countdown
Students commit to graduating on time. We help them get there. By enrolling in Senior Countdown, students are given priority access to the Graduation Help Desk and are guaranteed access to courses they need to graduate.
University Leadership Network
A nationally recognized incentive-based scholarship program, the University Leadership Network’s comprehensive four-year plan involves leadership training, peer mentoring, and experiential learning opportunities, helping students develop skills consistent with graduating in four years.
UT for Me – Powered by Dell Scholars
In partnership with The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, UT for Me – Powered by Dell Scholars aims to close the gap in college graduation rates across income levels by dramatically expanding ongoing, individualized support services for Pell-eligible undergraduate students.
