The Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will start teaching as a full-time film professor at the University of Texas at Austin this fall.

McConaughey began working at the university as a visiting instructor in 2015.

Since then, the movie star has become a cult hero on campus and even helped drive students home from campus in a golf cart in 2016.

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Starting this fall, film students at the University of Texas at Austin will start seeing a lot more of Matthew McConaughey.

The Academy Award winner and university alumnus was officially added to the list of faculty as a "professor of practice."

The Moody College of Communication announced its new professor in a tweet on Wednesday morning.

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McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the university in 1993.

McConaughey has roamed the university's campus as a visiting instructor for the past four years and become somewhat of a cult hero. The actor won over the hearts of students when in 2016 he drove students home in a golf cart as part of the university's safe-ride program.

McConaughey was first brought on to teach the "Script to Screen" film-production class with another professor, Scott Rice. McConaughey helped design the curriculum for the class, which he will continue to teach as a full-time professor.

"It's the class I wish I would have had when I was in film school. Working in the classroom with these students gives me a chance to prepare them," McConaughey told UT News. "Making movies, turning words on paper into film, is both a science and art — no matter the time or generation. The elements of truth and genuine joy for the process are timeless. That will always be our classroom focus."