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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.

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 (admission process, high school rank, SAT scores)
Age
Gender
Geographic Origin
International Students
Ethnicity
Undergraduate Retention
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 48,857 students enrolled at UT-Austin for the fall semester 1997, a increase of 1.8% from the fall semester 1996.

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First-Time Freshmen

The Admission Process

Of those students who applied to UT-Austin for the fall semester 1997, 78.1% were admitted. Of those students admitted, 60.5% enrolled for the fall semester.

Note: Some students who applied for the fall semester first enrolled during summer 1997.

High School Rank

SAT Scores

The middle 50% of entering freshmen score between 1110 and 1310 on the 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.

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Age

The median age of undergraduates is 21.1 years.

Nontraditional age students, those 25 years old and over, comprise 9.7% of all undergraduates.

In the Graduate and Professional Schools, the median age is 30.3 years; 11.1% are more than 40 years old.

The average age in Law School is 25.6 years.

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Gender

Overall, 49.0% of the UT-Austin student population are women and 51.0% are men.

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Geographic Origin

UT-Austin students come from 241 of the 254 counties in Texas, from all 50 states, and from 115 foreign countries.

Texans are:

• 91.4% of undergraduate students;
• 50.3% of graduate/professional students.

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

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International Students

International students make up about 6.9% of the campus population; 3.0% of undergraduates and 19.2% of graduate/professional students are from foreign countries.

The countries with more than 100 students attending 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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Undergraduate Retention

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 1987 through 1996, 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 1996 entering class who returned for the start of their sophomore year in fall 1997. The data are presented within selected categories of High School Rank and SAT Total Test score.

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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 1986-1992:

• 30.1% graduated within four years;
• 56.9% graduated within five years;
• 63.4% graduated within six years.

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Degrees Conferred

During the 1996-1997 academic year The University of Texas at Austin conferred 11,063 degrees:

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Undergraduate Academic Performance

The average cumulative grade-point average (GPA) for all undergraduates for fall semester 1996 was 2.88.

The average cumulative GPA by class level was:

• 2.78 Freshman;
• 2.85 Sophomore;
• 2.88 Junior;
• 2.97 Senior.

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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 1997.

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Student Fees & Expenses

Typical costs for an undergraduate taking 13 hours each semester during 1997-1998 are estimated to be:

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Financial Aid

In 1996-1997, approximately 20,620 undergraduate students received $138.5 million dollars in financial support.

Of this total amount:

Graduate students earned $109.4 million through scholarships, fellowships, teaching and research assistantships, and other campus employment.

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Scholarships

For 1996-97, The University of Texas at Austin awarded 7,851 scholarships to undergraduates including 905 freshman National Merit Scholars, 37 National Achievement Scholars, and 1,677 Texas Achievement Awards and Texas Achievement Honors Awards. The average stipend was $2,650 per recipient.

A total of 5,250 graduate students received $26 million dollars in scholarship and fellowship support for the 1997-1998 school year.

Notable graduate student awards for 1997-98 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 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 1996-1997 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 1996-97, 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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19 February 1998
Office of Admissions at UT-Austin
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