UT Tyler Secures Official R2 Carnegie Classification

February 16, 2022

UT Tyler Secures Official R2 Carnegie Classification

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February 16, 2022

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The University of Texas at Tyler’s R2 designation has been affirmed by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

This Carnegie classification indicates UT Tyler is a university with very high research activity. UT Tyler has the highest Carnegie classification in East Texas.

“To have secured the formal designation as an R2 research institution is quite a milestone for UT Tyler,” said Steven Idell, MD, PhD, senior vice president for research. “It recognizes the high-quality research in which our faculty and students are engaged and represents a landmark for expanding those efforts.”

Following the unification of UT Tyler with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, the combined research qualified UT Tyler for an R2 designation.

UT Tyler research, which is conducted by five colleges and three schools, is dedicated to helping to improve the quality of life locally as well as throughout the state and the nation.

Current faculty and student research areas include projects dealing with COVID-19, community health, lung injury and repair, infectious lung disease, engineering, education, business, biological sciences and the liberal arts.

With a mission to improve educational and healthcare outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. UT Tyler recently merged with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (now known as The Health Science Center at UT Tyler). Through its alignment with The Health Science Center at UT Tyler (HSC) and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.