The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas. It is member of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the U.S. to have a majority Mexican American student population (about 80%) after the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the university's School of Engineering is the nation's top producer of Hispanic engineers with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.[6]