{"id":476534,"date":"2025-12-28T06:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476534\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:29:24","slug":"top-stories-of-2025-with-integration-ut-san-antonio-emerges-as-one-world-class-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476534\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories of 2025: With integration, UT San Antonio emerges as one world-class university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27246 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Artboard-1-e1763585914609-381x600.png\" alt=\"2025 UT San Antonio Today\" width=\"240\" height=\"378\"  \/>Announced in late 2024, the merging of UTSA and UT Health San Antonio to form The University of Texas at San Antonio became official on Sept. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Local and national media outlets widely covered news of the historic integration.<\/p>\n<p>As a merged institution, UT San Antonio now ranks as the third-largest public research university in Texas according to annual research expenditures, behind only Texas A&amp;M University and the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, UT San Antonio leaders spoke about how the union strengthens the university\u2019s commitment to make lives better for the communities it serves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/09\/utsa-and-ut-health-san-antonio-complete-merger-to-become-the-university-of-texas-at-san-antonio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on UT San Antonio Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive and why now is the right time to merge, see <a href=\"https:\/\/sombrilla.utsa.edu\/one-world-class-university\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this story in Sombrilla magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also listen to the Launchpad <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utsa.edu\/2025\/10\/building-texas-future-with-a-stronger-workforce-podcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcast series<\/a> featuring university leaders giving their insight into how the merger advances the academic vision, fuels research and discovery, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announced in late 2024, the merging of UTSA and UT Health San Antonio to form The University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,125984],"class_list":{"0":"post-476534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-ut-san-antonio-integration"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115795786272213212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}