The Student Profile, produced annually by the UT-Austin Office of Admissions, provides a variety of statistical information about the University and its student body. In addition to this year's Profile, the 1996 and 1995 editions are also available online.

You can scroll through the Profile from beginning to end or use this table of contents and hop to individual sections:

 
Campus Facts
Campus Enrollment
First-Time Freshmen
Age
Gender
Geographic Origin
Ethnicity
Matriculation
Graduation Rates
Degrees Conferred
Undergraduate Academic Performance
Fields of Study
Student Fees & Expenses
Financial Aid
Scholarships
Housing
Sports
Organizations & Clubs

Campus Facts

As the academic flagship of the UT System's 15 component institutions, UT-Austin has come far from its beginning in 1883, when it had only one building, eight teachers, two departments, 221 students and a 40-acre campus. Today, it has a main campus of more than 350 acres that is home to approximately 48,000 students, a full-time teaching staff of about 2,700 and about 15,000 staff members. UT-Austin has 15 colleges and schools and it offers degrees in more than 270 programs. Each semester more than 6,000 courses are offered to students.

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Campus Enrollment

A total of 48,008 students enrolled at UT-Austin for the fall semester 1996, a increase of 0.2% from the fall semester 1995.

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First-Time Freshmen

The Admission Process
Of students who applied to the UT-Austin for the fall semester 1996, 61% were admitted. Of those admitted, 61% enrolled for the fall semester. Note: some students who applied for the fall semester first enrolled during summer 1996.

High School Rank

SAT Scores
The middle 50% of entering freshmen score between 1120 and 1300 on the Recentered SAT Total.

The table below deals with the two sections of the SAT - verbal and quantitative - and breaks down the scores, numbers, and percentages of students for each.

Note: all SAT scores have been converted to the new recentered scale in effect after April 1995.

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Age

The median age of undergraduates is 21.2 years.

Nontraditional age students, those 25 years old and over, comprise 10.8% of all undergraduates.

In the Graduate School, the median age is 30.4 years; 11.9% are more than 40 years old.

The average age in Law School is 25.6 years.

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Gender

Overall, 48.3% of the UT-Austin student population are women and 51.7% are men.

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Geographic Origin

UT-Austin students come from 249 of the 254 counties in Texas, from all 50 states, and from 116 foreign countries.

Texans are:

The Texas counties sending the most undergraduate students to UT-Austin are:

International students make up about 7.0% of the campus population; 3.1% of undergraduates and 18.4% of graduate/professional students are from foreign countries. Countries with more than 100 students attending the UT-Austin are:

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Ethnicity

The number and percentage of students by ethnic category within each type of school are shown in the table below.

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Matriculation

Relatively large percentages of first-time entering freshmen at UT-Austin remain enrolled through the start of their sophomore year. Among the first-time freshmen who entered UT-Austin from 1986 through 1995, 85% returned for the fall semester of their sophomore year; approximately 77% returned for the start of their junior year.

The table below shows the percentage of students from the summer and fall 1995 entering class who returned for the start of their sophomore year in the fall of 1996. The data are presented within selected categories of High School Rank and Recentered SAT Total Test score. The original SAT Total Test scores were converted to Recentered SAT Total Test scores to construct this table.

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Graduation Rates

Consistent with national trends, less than half of the first-time freshmen who enrolled at UT-Austin graduated within four years. Of those who entered during 1986-1994:

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Degrees Conferred

In 1995-1996 The University of Texas at Austin conferred 11,090 degrees:

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Undergraduate Academic Performance

The average cumulative grade-point average (GPA) for all undergraduates for fall semester 1995 was 2.85.

The average cumulative GPA by class level was:

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Fields of Study

Listed below is the number of students enrolled in the most popular undergraduate and graduate fields of study for fall semester 1996.

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Student Fees & Expenses

Typical costs for an undergraduate Texas resident living in a university-owned residence hall and taking 13 hours each semester during 1996-1997 are estimated to be:

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Financial Aid

In 1995-96, approximately 18,975 undergraduate students received $109.2 million dollars in financial support.

Of this total amount:

Graduate students earned $91.1 million through scholarships, fellowships, teaching and research assistantships, and other campus employment.

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Scholarships

For 1995-96, The University of Texas at Austin awarded 7,519 scholarships to undergraduates including 886 freshman National Merit Scholars, 29 National Achievement Scholars, and 1,690 Texas Achievement Awards and Texas Achievement Honors Awards. The average stipend was $2,200 per recipient.

A total of 4,554 graduate students received $26.5 million dollars in scholarship and fellowship support for the 1996-1997 school year.

Notable graduate student awards for 1996-97 include:

University fellowships carry a stipend up to $11,000. Tuition and fees may or may not be included, depending on the fellowship.

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Housing

More than 6,000 students, approximately 12% of the total student body, live in university-owned housing. Approximately one half (47%) of freshmen live in residence halls.

In addition, the Division of Food and Housing maintains a listing of off-campus, privately-owned housing to help students locate off-campus rental housing.

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Sports

Students at the UT-Austin participate in intramural sports at a very high rate - 85% of all students were involved in one or more recreational sports activities. In 1995-1996 there were more than 400 touch football teams, 500 softball teams, 500 basketball teams, and 180 soccer teams participating in recreational sports leagues.

In addition, Recreational Sports:

• employs over 1,000 students per semester;
• instructs over 3,000 students per semester in aerobics classes;
• rents outdoor equipment to over 4,500 students each year;
• accommodates over 12,000 different individuals each day in recreational activities.
• accumulates an estimated 2 million hours of recreational sports participation annually.

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Organizations & Clubs

In 1995-96, students at The UT-Austin participated in more than 700 registered student organizations representing their academic, cultural, ethnic political, professional, recreational, religious, service, and social interests.

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06 February 1997
Office of Admissions at UT-Austin
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