Headcount Enrollment

The Fall 1996 enrollment of 48,008 students represents a 0.2% increase from last fall's total of 47,905. Student enrollment increased for undergraduates by 2.0%, but decreased for graduates by 5.2% and Law students by 0.8%.

The proportion of female students enrolled increased slightly from last year. University-wide, enrollment increased for all ethnic groups except White (down by 0.2%). American Indian enrollment increased by 14.8%, Asian American by 5.0%, Hispanic by 2.1%, and Black by 0.7% (Table S 5). The proportional representation for Asian American and Hispanic students increased. White representation decreased and American Indian and Black remained stable (Table S 4). There was a decline in foreign student enrollment (6.5%) and proportional representation.

The proportion of students from Texas for Fall 1996 increased to 80.9% from 80.3% in 1995, while the percentage of out- of-state students decreased slightly from 12.3% to 12.2%. The foreign student enrollment percentage decreased from 7.5% to 7.0% (Table S 8). As a group, the largest number of foreign students are from the People's Republic of China, followed by India, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan (Table S 11). For Fall 1996, approximately 87% of the undergraduate students and 79% 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, Education, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, Natural Sciences, and Nursing. Graduate enrollment increased or remained stable for Pharmacy and Social Work (Table S 28).

The attrition rate after one year for the 1995 entering freshmen class was slightly lower than the corresponding attrition rate for the 1994 class. On average, the attrition rate of entering freshmen after four years at The University is about 33%. Approximately 30% of all entering freshmen graduate after four years and about 63% graduate after six years (Table S 24).

Semester Credit Hours

Total semester credit hour production increased from last fall by 2.3%. Increases occurred at all levels except doctoral (Table SCH 1).

Undergraduate semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased or remained stable for Architecture, Business, Communication, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, Library and Information Science, Natural Sciences, and Social Work, but decreased in other schools and colleges. At the graduate level, semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased for Communication, Natural Sciences, Nursing, and Social Work (Table SCH 1). Conclusions cannot be drawn for Pharmacy because semester credit hours are now being generated at the special professional level for the Pharm.D. program, resulting in a redistribution of hours previously counted at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels.

University-wide, average student courseloads increased at the undergraduate, master's level, and doctoral levels, but remained stable for Law. Undergraduate Pharmacy, Engineering, Business, and Architecture students have the highest average courseloads. At the graduate level, the courseloads are highest for Law students, and master's students in Business, doctoral students in Architecture, and master's students in Social Work (Table SCH 4).

Faculty/Staff

Figure FS 4 compares UT Austin's average faculty salaries (first four ranks) for ten years with average salaries from our national comparison group of institutions. For 1995-96, UT Austin's average faculty salaries again fell slightly below the weighted average for the rest of the institutions. (Within our comparison group we dropped from 6th to 7th place, out of 12 institutions.)

The percentage of tenured faculty for Fall 1995 is 52.6%, 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 1995-96 academic year (Table D 2). Of all the degrees conferred during this past academic year, 50.8% were awarded to men, 49.2% to women, 67.1% to Whites, 10.9% to Hispanics, 10.3% to foreign students, 8.3% to Asian Americans, 3.1% to Blacks, and 0.3% to American Indians (Table D 2).