Headcount Enrollment

The Fall 1998 enrollment of 48,906 students represents a 0.1% increase from last fall's total of 48,857. Student enrollment increased for undergraduates by 0.9%, but decreased for graduates by 2.4% and Law students by 2.7%.

The proportion of female students enrolled increased slightly from last year. University-wide enrollment increased for all ethnic groups except Asian American and American Indian. Asian American enrollment increased by 6.0% and American Indian by 3.9%. Black enrollment declined by 6.0%, Hispanic by 3.0%, and White by 1.5%. There was an 11.9% increase in foreign enrollment, the majority of which was from including foreign exchange students in official enrollment figures this fall. There was also 103 students for whom ethnicity was not known. The proportional representation for Asian Americans and foreign students increased (Table S 4). Black, Hispanic, and White representation decreased, and American Indian representation remained stable.

The proportion of students from Texas decreased slightly to 81.1% from 81.3% in 1997, and out- of-state students decreased from 11.8% to 11.2%. The foreign student enrollment percentage increased (see above paragraph) from 6.9% to 7.8% (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 1998, approximately 87% of the undergraduate students and 80% 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, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and Natural Sciences. Graduate enrollment increased or remained stable for Communication, Engineering, Fine Arts, Library and Information Science, Pharmacy, Intercollegial Programs (Table S 34).

The attrition rate after one year for the 1997 entering freshmen class was slightly lower than the corresponding attrition rate for the 1996 class. On average, the attrition rate of entering freshmen after four years at The University is about 32%. Approximately 30% of all entering freshmen graduate after four years and about 64% graduate after six years (Table S 30).

Semester Credit Hours

Total semester credit hour production decreased from last fall by 0.2%. Semester credit hour production increased or remained stable at all levels except master's and Law. (Table SCH 1).

Undergraduate semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased or remained stable for Architecture, Business, Communication, Education, Engineering, 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, Engineering, Fine Arts, and Intercollegial Programs. (Table SCH 1).

University-wide, average student courseloads increased at the master's and Pharm. D. levels, but decreased at the undergraduate, doctoral and Law levels. Undergraduate Pharmacy, Nursing, Engineering, and Architecture 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 seven 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 1997-98, UT Austin's average faculty salaries fell slightly below the weighted average for the rest of the institutions.

The percentage of tenured faculty for Fall 1998 is 51.6%, 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 1997-98 academic year (Table D 2). Of all the degrees conferred during this past academic year, 50.6% were awarded to men, 49.4% to women, 66.3% to Whites, 11.9% to Hispanics, 9.1% to Asian Americans, 8.9% to foreign students, 3.4% to Blacks, and 0.4% to American Indians (Table D 2).