Cockrell School of Engineering

The Cockrell School of Engineering receives a generous amount of donations from alumni, corporations and friends of the Cockrell School. The school awards scholarships recognizing the academic achievements and leadership potential of future students whose sum is more than USD 10 million to undergraduates in merit-based awards. 

Currently enrolled engineering students may complete the Engineering scholarship application by May 1 each year to be considered for scholarship awards and renewals the following year. 

The Cockrell School does not offer scholarships to incoming international students applying for undergraduation. Current international undergraduates may apply for a small number of scholarships available by completing the Engineering scholarship application by May 1. 

The Cockrell School offers various courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students. 

•  For international students the fee structure is a little expensive compared to residents of the USA.  

• The application fee for undergraduate and postgraduate international students is USD 90 (INR 7.71K).  

• The school does not offer scholarship to incoming undergraduate students, but it does offer limited number of scholarships after the international students gets admitted into the school after completion of the Engineering scholarship application by Mar 1 each year. 

• The total fee for international students is USD 69,880 (INR 59.88L) for undergraduates and USD 43,690 (INR 37.43L) for postgraduates. 

Admission to the Cockrell School is competitive and based on criteria similar to the school's requirements. But it should be higher than those students who are also competing for the same admission to the university. 

It gets a bit harder for students to get into the Cockrell School of Engineering as the acceptance rate is relatively higher. The overall undergraduate acceptance rate of the University of Texas at Austin is 29% in 2023-24. The acceptance rate for postgraduates is 25.94%. 

International students who wish to study in the USA at the University of Texas at Austin must have a US students visa. 

The Board of Regents of University of Texas on July 11, 2007, renamed the College of Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, to the Cockrell School of Engineering. The name was renamed to honor the late Ernest Cockrell Jr. of Houston who was a 1936 graduate of the university who did his bachelor and master degrees in petroleum engineering.

Ernest Cockrell Jr. died in 1972 and in 1974 Ernest Cockrell Jr. Hall, a primary engineering building on the campus, was named in his memory. 

Ben Streetman, former dean of the Cockrell School of Engineering, believed that this action by the Board of Regents was the right thing to do. It honored Ernest Cockrell Jr. and the entire Cockrell family for a dream of what the school could become through a steady and generous application of private gifts.