Tex. Educ. Code § 70.03 · Chapter 70. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
COURSES AND DEGREES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may prescribe courses leading to customary degrees offered at leading American universities and may award those degrees. It is the intent of the legislature that those degrees include bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees, and their equivalents.
(b) No department, school, or degree program shall be instituted except with the prior approval of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, or its successor.
(c) Initial programs and departments shall be limited to those which existed in the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies on September 1, 1969. Approval of these programs, their expansion, and initiation of other programs shall be recommended by the board of regents and approved by the coordinating board.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 3164, ch. 1024, art. 1, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1971.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.70.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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