LaTeX template for theses and dissertations at the University of Texas at Austin. Most current version available anywhere so far as I know.
I recommend downloading this whole repository as a .zip file, since this whole repo is equivalent to a top-level project directory.
This repository is designed to be useful to both beginning and experienced LaTeX users.
For those just getting started with LaTeX, know you are making a very good decision by writing your thesis in it. The two pdf documents contained here, sample_masters.pdf and sample_phd.pdf, both contain enough of a gentle introduction to LaTeX to get you started, and this project directory helps set you up for some best practices in keeping all your files organized in the project. The source code itself contains as many useful tricks as I found reasonable to include in an introduction too.
For experienced LaTeX users, this repository primarily provides a current version of utthesis2.sty that is compatible with current Graduate School formatting requirements. I strongly recommend also using at least the preamble contents ut_thesis.tex as well, since my changes have introduced numerous new dependencies between it and the version of utthesis2.sty contained in this repository. In particular the generation of front-matter has been completely reworked from previous versions of utthesis2.sty.