University Of North Texas - Wikipedia

The University of North Texas's main campus is located in Denton, a city of approximately 170,000 in the northern part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As the flagship of the University of North Texas System, UNT has steadily expanded its physical presence since 1975, when it acquired a medical school in Fort Worth.

In 1981, the medical school was reorganized as a separate institution under the UNT Board of Regents.[17] In 2009, the University of North Texas at Dallas became the system's second stand-alone university, and that same year, the Texas Legislature approved the creation of the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law, which opened in 2014 in Downtown Dallas. The UNT System itself was established by the board of regents in 1980, 90 years after the founding of the university, and formally recognized by the 78th Legislature in 2003.

In 2004, UNT opened Discovery Park in Denton, a 300-acre (1.2 km2) research and technology campus located five miles (8 km) north of the main campus. It houses facilities focused on science, engineering, and innovation. In 2011, the College of Visual Arts and Design opened the Design Research Center in Dallas's Design District.[18]

To extend access to its academic and research programs, UNT Denton established a satellite campus in Frisco, a suburban city in the northern Dallas–Fort Worth area. Frisco is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of downtown Dallas and 25 miles (40 km) east of Denton. In 2018, UNT at Frisco opened Inspire Park and now serves about 2,000 students each semester across several Frisco and Collin County sites, including Hall Park and the Collin Higher Education Center in McKinney.[19] In 2020, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the development of a new UNT branch campus on a 100-acre (0.40 km2) site donated by the city of Frisco.