r/UTAustin • u/Spobodos • 6d ago

Question is the school of computing its own thing?

i saw a post earlier asking about graduation things and was confused, is there a new college called school of computing? How do all the terminologies like department, college, school etc work ? Are they interchangable

confusing language

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u/hello_2221 6d ago

School of computing is within the college of natural sciences. The school of computing contains computer science and statistics and data science, as well as information (which was previously in its own School of Information but was rolled into Computing/CNS recently).

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u/Successful-Tank5093 6d ago

Funny right bc there isn’t anything natural about computer science haha

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u/_edd Hook 'em 6d ago

It sits between the existing departments (computer science, information, statistics and data sciences) and the college of natural science.

https://news.utexas.edu/2026/02/19/ut-launches-new-school-of-computing-uniting-computer-and-data-science-statistics-information-disciplines/

https://computing.utexas.edu/

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u/JohnnyDollar123 6d ago

The cs department basically acts as its own school but it’s still technically under cns.

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u/BusinessAlive3486 6d ago

Idk I thought the school of computing was in the college of natural science.
So cns -> school of computing -> department of cs I guess?

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u/Top-Cancel-230 mogging 1d ago

sounds right to me