Requirements and restrictions College of Communication
In addition to submitting a complete application for admission, freshman applicants to the College of Communication should also review the following information regarding special application requirements and admission restrictions.
- Fall-only Admission: First-time freshmen in the College of Communication must begin their studies in a fall semester.
Journalism
All applicants who plan to enter the journalism program must apply for admission to the University as pre-journalism majors. To continue as journalism students, students admitted to pre-journalism apply for admission to a concentration in broadcast journalism, multimedia journalism, photojournalism, sports journalism or to one of the three sequences in the print journalism concentration—newspaper reporting and writing, magazine writing and editing, and copy editing and design.
The student should apply for admission to a concentration or sequence while taking or upon completing Journalism 315. Admission decisions for each concentration or sequence are made by the head of that area.
Restricted Admission: College of Communication
Because admission to the College of Communication is so competitive, automatic admission as a result of top 10% status is restricted to the most qualified applicants.
Admitting Students to Restricted Majors
- Top 10% Texas graduates are admitted to Communication based on their relative class rank (beginning with the top 1%, top 2%, top 3%, etc.) until all available spaces for automatic admission are filled. (No more than 75% of the available spaces are filled through automatic admission.)
- If 75% of the available Communication spaces are filled before all top 10% applicants are admitted, the remaining top 10% graduates compete with all other applicants for any remaining spaces. Admission decisions about these remaining spaces are based on individual review.
- Top 10% graduates who are not admitted to the major of their choice are considered for their second-choice major. All top 10% Texas high school graduates who meet UT Austin’s application requirements are admitted to the University, although they may not be admitted to their requested major(s).
Learn More about Communication
Still not certain about your major choice? Learn more about the College of Communication.
Updated 24 July 2008
