The University of North Texas System (informally UNT System) consists of four educational institutions in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area. The system is headquartered at the UNT System Building (formerly the Universities Center at Dallas), at 1901 Main Street in Dallas.[1].
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The University of North Texas, the UNT System's flagship institution, a four-year general education university in Denton.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (UNTHSC) is a graduate-level institution which includes the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM), the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Public Health, the School of Health Professions, and the UNT System College of Pharmacy.
The University of North Texas at Dallas (formerly known as the System Center and UNT Dallas Campus) is a university established as a branch campus of the University of North Texas in 2000. In April 2009, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board certified this enrollment and granted UNT Dallas status as an independent general academic institution. Now, the freestanding school is known as the University of North Texas at Dallas, the first public university within Dallas city limits. Freshmen and sophomores are being admitted for the first time in the Fall of 2010.
The University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law is a new law school operating under the UNT System until 2014 when the college becomes part of UNT at Dallas.
The system is governed by the University of North Texas Board of Regents, whose members are appointed by the governor to serve five-year terms. The system added its first student regent — a one-year appointment that does not carry voting rights — in February 2006.
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