[10] UT Arlington is the third-largest producer of college graduates in Texas and offers over 180 baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree programs.

Arlington College was established as a private school for primary through secondary level students, equivalent to the modern 1st to 10th grades.

[13] Local merchant Edward Emmett Rankin organized fellow citizens of the city to donate materials and land to build a schoolhouse where the modern campus is now located.

Although the public education system was set to improve, Arlington College was closed and the property was sold to James McCoy Carlisle.

In the fall of 1913, Henry Kirby Taylor moved from Missouri, where he was president of the Northwest State Teachers' College, to set up another military academy called Arlington Training School.

[16] The school was incorporated in 1915 in order to raise funds to make improvements to the existing buildings, but more financial problems arose and another series of lawsuits were filed.

Vincent Woodbury Grubb, a lawyer and education advocate, organized Arlington officials to lobby the state legislature to create a new junior college.

[14] The Great Depression resulted in major cuts to funding and a decline in students, so more general college courses were gradually introduced at NTAC instead of vocational classes.

[21] Davis was also an enthusiastic support of eugenics and believed in the inherent inferiority of Mexicans and African-Americans in regards to literacy and genetics.

[24] The name was changed to Arlington State College (ASC) in 1949 to reflect the fact that agriculture was no longer an important part of the curriculum.

[28] ASC's racial segregation would come to an end in the summer of 1962 due to NAACP member and Dallas lawyer Fred Finch, Jr threatening litigation on behalf of his clients Ernest Hooper, Jerry Hanes, and Leaston Chase III.

President Woolf and Chancellor of the A&M System Harrington would announce the desegregation of ASC on July 11 of that year, and the following fall semester being the first ever to have black students be enrolled.

[31] Rudder and the Texas A&M board of directors, viewing ASC as a threat to the College Station campus, withheld construction funding and blocked degree development.

[33] Controversy erupted in the late 1960s over the use of a rebel theme that was started in 1951, including Confederate symbols and mock-slave auctions as campus traditions.

After several years of efforts by President Frank Harrison to give students an opportunity to pick another theme, the UT System abolished rebels.

Faculty research and publishing was emphasized along with the addition of doctoral programs in science, engineering, business, social work, and public and urban administration.

Surface parking is pushed to the outer edges of campus, particularly south of the academic core, resulting in students getting more exercise than they may want during peak periods.

In 2007, UTA opened the historic and renovated Santa Fe Freight building in downtown Fort Worth for educational purposes.

[51] On August 5, 2024, UTA announced a planned expansion to a 51 acre property in west Fort Worth within the Walsh Ranch development in Parker County.

[73] The college's endowed Goolsby Leadership Academy is a highly selective cohort program for high-achieving undergraduate business students and distinguished faculty.

The college's High Energy Physics group is involved in ongoing experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and made major contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012, working on detectors and computational data analysis.

Also included is the Fort Worth Star-Telegram photo archives, a collection representing over 100 years of North and West Texas history.

Some notable ones include: The U.S. News & World Report consistently ranked UT Arlington in the top 10 in the nation for achieving the most ethnically diverse undergraduate student body.

[100][101] The fraternity and sorority community at UT Arlington consists of dozens of national and local groups with four governing councils.

[114] In 2019, national news services reported that Greek life at Arlington was suspended due to allegations of rape, alcohol abuse, and hazing.

The men's basketball team earned a berth the National Invitation Tournament for the third time during the 2016–2017 season, advancing to the quarter finals.

The quarter-final run included a win at BYU and two home games at College Park Center in front of large crowds (need citation).

In 2011–2012, the men's team advanced to the National Invitation Tournament, falling to the Washington Huskies on their home court in a highly competitive game in the opening round.

The university administration noted major financial losses of about $1 million per year and low average attendance (5,600, the student body at the time was 23,100).

The program was funded by the university's auxiliary enterprise income while the other 14 sports were under-funded, as football accounted for half the total athletic budget.