Headcount Enrollment

The fall 2000 enrollment of 49,996 students represents a 2.0% increase from last fall's total of 49,009. This enrollment increase is due primarily to higher than targeted numbers of provisional students and new fall freshmen, and an anticipated increase in undergraduate continuing students. Student enrollment increased for undergraduates by 2.7% and for Law by 1.9%, but decreased for graduates by 0.4%.

The proportion of male and female students enrolled remained the same as last year.

University-wide, enrollment increased for all ethnic groups. The number of foreign students increased by 8.2% (326), Asian American by 4.9% (289), American Indian by 3.2% (7), African American by 2.0% (31), White by 0.7% (221), and Hispanic enrollment by 0.1% (8). There were 375 students for whom ethnicity was not known, an increase of 105 over fall 1999. The proportional representation remained steady for African American and American Indian students, declined slightly for white and Hispanic students, and increased slightly for Asian American and foreign students. (Table S 4).

The proportion of students from Texas decreased slightly from 81.3% in 1999 to 81.2% in 2000, as did the percentage of out-of-state students from 10.6% to 10.2%. The foreign student enrollment percentage increased from 8.1% to 8.6%. (Table S 8). As a group, the largest number of foreign students are from India, followed by the Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan (Table S 11). For fall 2000, approximately 88% of the undergraduate students and 81% of the graduate students attend The University on a full-time basis (Table S 7).

Undergraduate enrollment increased or remained stable for Business Administration, Communication, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Natural Sciences, and Nursing. Graduate enrollment increased or remained stable for Business Administration, Fine Arts, Law, Natural Sciences, Pharmacy, and Intercollegial Programs (Table S 34).

The attrition rate after one year for the 1999 entering freshmen class was slightly lower than the corresponding attrition rate for the 1998 class. On average, the attrition rate of entering freshmen after four years at The University is about 30%. Approximately 32% of all entering freshmen graduate after four years and about 66% graduate after six years, with these rates gradually increasing with succeeding cohorts (Table S 30).

Semester Credit Hours

Total semester credit hour production increased from last fall by 2.3%. Semester credit hour production increased or remained stable at all levels except master's (Table SCH 1). Master's level semester credit hour production decreased for fall 2000 due to a return to the previous policy on classification of incoming graduate students.

Undergraduate semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased or remained stable for all colleges and schools, except Architecture, Library and Information Science, and Social Work. At the graduate level, semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased or remained stable for all colleges and schools, except Architecture, Education, Library and Information Science, and Nursing (Table SCH 1).

University-wide, average student courseloads remained steady for undergraduates and decreased slightly for Law students. Undergraduate Pharmacy, Engineering, and Business Administration students have the highest average courseloads. At the graduate level, the courseloads are highest for Law students, Pharm. D. students, master's students in Business Administration, and master's students in Social Work (Table SCH 4).

Faculty/Staff

Figure FS 4 compares nine years of UT Austin's average faculty salaries (first four ranks) based on faculty appointments with average salaries from our national comparison group of institutions. For 1999-00, UT Austin's average faculty salaries were slightly below the weighted average for the rest of the institutions, and the percentage of tenured faculty for fall 2000 is 48.6%, slightly lower than last year's figure (Table FS 5).

Degrees Conferred

The Colleges of Liberal Arts and Business Administration awarded the largest number of degrees during the 1999-00 academic year (Table D 2). Of all the degrees conferred during this past academic year, 48.8% were awarded to men, 51.2% to women, 64.8% to Whites, 11.3% to Hispanics, 10.5% to Asian Americans, 9.6% to foreign students, 3.1% to African Americans, and 0.3% to American Indians (Table D 2). There were 40 students who were awarded degrees but had not specified an ethnicity.

Finance/Facilities

Figure F 6 shows that for the UT Austin Main Campus there is over 14.7 million gross square feet of space and over 8.3 million assignable square feet (ASF) of space. One-third of the Main Campus ASF is related to the delivery of instruction (F 7).