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Student Engagement and Support

Academic Coaching

Academic coaching sessions provide a safe and trusting place to explore your academic goals, reflect on your progress, and create a plan for future academic success.

What is Academic Coaching?

  • Personalized Guidance: Every session is shaped by your unique needs, learning style, and goals.
  • Collaborative Support: Work alongside a coach who listens, supports, and helps you create an actionable plan you can follow.
  • Skills That Last
    Build strategies for success, including:
    • Time management
    • Study techniques
    • Goal setting
    • Test preparation
    • Decision-making
    • Self-advocacy
  • A Safe Space to Reflect and Grow
    Coaching offers a welcoming, supportive environment where you can reflect on your progress, tackle challenges, and move forward with confidence.

Who Benefits from Academic Coaching?

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, struggling to keep up, or unsure how to manage your time and energy, academic coaching can help. It’s about finding what works for you—so you can pass your classes, achieve your goals, and feel good about your progress.

How Academic Coaching Complements Other Resources

  • Advising: Advisors focus on helping you plan your classes, stay on track for graduation, and navigate academic requirements.
  • Course Support: Your teaching assistant and instructors provide support for specific course content when you need help understanding a subject.

Book Your Coaching Support Appointment

The CS department is committed to providing undergraduates with opportunities and support to enrich their academic experience.

Our undergraduates are involved in extracurricular activities that give them the opportunity to connect their academics with real world applications and professional opportunities. These activities range from undergraduate research to student organization involvement.

Our students have the ability to study abroad all over the world in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, France, Peru, Poland, Spain, South Africa, and Switzerland. Many of these programs include comparable tuition and living expense to a semester at UT and there are scholarships, fellowships, and grants to make it all possible.

Even in the rockiest of economic times, CS students are offered internships and jobs. Natural Sciences Career Services has a database to alert students of career fairs, internship opportunities, on-campus interviews, and information sessions. They also help students with resume critiques, salary negotiation practice, and job search assistance.

CS students are eligible to apply for scholarships through many sources including the university, college, and private sources. Through the generosity of our many donors, the Department of Computer Science is also able to offer our students many scholarships.