The Geospatial Information Sciences program was the first from Texas admitted to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.[109] UT Dallas is the fourth university in the nation to receive an accreditation from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) for a Geospatial Intelligence certificate.[110] The GIS program is ranked No. 1 in the nation for GIScience/Computation and Spatial Analysis/Statistics by Geographical Perspectives.[111]