Headcount Enrollment

The Fall 1999 enrollment of 49,009 students represents a 0.2% increase from last fall's total of 48,906. Student enrollment decreased for undergraduates by 0.1%, but increased for graduates by 1.4% and Law students by 0.2%.

The proportion of female students enrolled increased slightly from last year. University-wide, enrollment declined for all ethnic groups except Asian American and foreign students. The number of Asian American students increased by 5.8% (328 students) and foreign by 4.4% (167). American Indian enrollment declined by 7.1% (17), Black by 4.0% (65), White by 1.3% (425), and Hispanic enrollment by 0.9% (52). There were 270 students for whom ethnicity was not known, an increase of 167 over Fall 1998. The proportional representation for Asian Americans and foreign students increased, while Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and White representation decreased slightly or remained stable (Table S 4).

The proportion of students from Texas increased slightly from 81.1% in 1998 to 81.3% in 1999, while the percentage of out- of-state students decreased from 11.2% to 10.6%. The foreign student enrollment percentage increased from 7.8% to 8.1% (Table S 8). As a group, the largest number of foreign students are from the Republic of Korea, followed by India, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan (Table S 11). For Fall 1999, approximately 88% 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 Architecture, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, and Natural Sciences. Graduate enrollment increased or remained stable for Architecture, Business Administration, Communication, Engineering, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts, Natural Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Affairs, Social Work, and Intercollegial Programs (Table S 34).

The attrition rate after one year for the 1998 entering freshmen class was slightly lower than the corresponding attrition rate for the 1997 class. On average, the attrition rate of entering freshmen after four years at The University is about 31%. Approximately 31% of all entering freshmen graduate after four years and about 65% graduate after six years (Table S 30).

Semester Credit Hours

Total semester credit hour production increased from last fall by 0.4%. Semester credit hour production increased or remained stable at all levels except doctoral (Table SCH 1). Doctoral level semester credit hour production decreased for Fall 1999 due to the change in policy on classification of incoming graduate students.

Undergraduate semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased or remained stable for Business Administration, Education, Engineering, and Natural Sciences, but decreased in other schools and colleges. At the graduate level, semester credit hour production (measured by percent change) increased or remained stable for Architecture, Communication, Engineering, Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, Public Affairs, and Social Work (Table SCH 1).

University-wide, average student courseloads increased at the undergraduate and Law levels, but decreased at the master's, doctoral, and Pharm. D. levels. Undergraduate Pharmacy, Engineering, Nursing, and Business Administration students have the highest average courseloads. At the graduate level, the courseloads are highest for Law students, master's students in Business Administration, Pharm. D. students, and master's students in Public Affairs (Table SCH 4).

Faculty/Staff

Figure FS 4 compares eight 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 1998-99, UT Austin's average faculty salaries fell below the weighted average for the rest of the institutions.

The percentage of tenured faculty for Fall 1999 is 49.7%, 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 1998-99 academic year (Table D 2). Of all the degrees conferred during this past academic year, 49.1% were awarded to men, 50.9% to women, 65.9% to Whites, 11.8% to Hispanics, 9.4% to Asian Americans, 8.9% to foreign students, 3.3% to Blacks, and 0.5% to American Indians (Table D 2). There were 17 students who were awarded degress but had not specified an ethnicity.

Finance/Facilities

Figure F 6 shows that for the UT Austin Main Campus there is over 14 million gross square feet of space and over 8 million assignable square feet (ASF) of space. One-third of the Main Campu ASF is related to the delivery of instruction (F 7).