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The 350-acre campus breeds Texas Longhorns, as passionate about football (and other sports) as they are about academics (it has one of the country's top research libraries). The university is the largest employer in Austin (even more than the state government), employeeing more than 80,000 people. The number of students here is staggering, too: 39,000 undergraduates and 11,000 at the graduate level. Come to the grounds any time to stroll on your own, visit one of the museums or libraries (the Ransom Center, for example, is the repository for the Watergate papers), or attend a fun annual event like Explore UT, Gone to Texas, and commencement, which includes fireworks.

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