{"id":115408,"date":"2026-01-08T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115408\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:41:05","slug":"ut-san-antonio-emerges-as-one-world-class-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115408\/","title":{"rendered":"UT San Antonio emerges as one world-class university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announced in late 2024, the merging of UTSA and UT Health San Antonio to form The University of Texas at San Antonio became official on Sept. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Local and national media outlets widely covered news of the historic integration.<\/p>\n<p>As a merged institution, UT San Antonio now ranks as the third-largest public research university in Texas according to annual research expenditures, behind only Texas A&amp;M University and the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, UT San Antonio leaders spoke about how the union strengthens the university\u2019s commitment to make lives better for the communities it serves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/09\/utsa-and-ut-health-san-antonio-complete-merger-to-become-the-university-of-texas-at-san-antonio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on UT San Antonio Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive and why now is the right time to merge, see <a href=\"https:\/\/sombrilla.utsa.edu\/one-world-class-university\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this story in Sombrilla magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also listen to the Launchpad <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/10\/building-texas-future-with-a-stronger-workforce-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcast series<\/a> featuring university leaders giving their insight into how the merger advances the academic vision, fuels research and discovery, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announced in late 2024, the merging of UTSA and UT Health San Antonio to form The University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18977,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-115408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-local-impact","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}