AUSTIN, Texas — Scholar demand and efficiency at The College of Texas at Austin proceed to succeed in all-time highs, in keeping with knowledge collected on the twelfth class day of the Fall 2024 time period. The variety of freshman functions elevated by 10% for the second straight yr, and enrollment reached a file excessive for the third consecutive yr. This yr’s four-year commencement charge, primarily based on college students who started school with distant studying through the pandemic, continued a decadelong upward development.
- A file 72,885 college students submitted freshman functions for Fall 2024, a rise of 10.2% from the earlier yr.
- Whole enrollment rose to 53,864 college students, a 1.5% enhance from final yr’s file.
- This yr’s coming into freshman class of 9,210 is the second-largest class ever.
- First-year undergraduate retention tied its all-time excessive of 96.7%.
- The four-year commencement charge climbed to 74.8%, surpassing the file set through the earlier yr, and almost 23 share factors greater than the 52.0% in 2013.
- 4-year commencement charges for Pell-eligible, first-generation, Black and Hispanic college students proceed to outpace the 10-year good points of all college students.
“Alternative, excellence and outcomes drive demand,” stated UT President Jay Hartzell. “We proceed to rent nice school, create new and distinctive educational alternatives for incoming college students, supply a vibrant campus in a thriving metropolis and state, and discover new methods to make a first-class schooling extra inexpensive. Because of this, demand for The College of Texas is stronger than ever, and as soon as college students arrive, they’re performing higher than ever, graduating sooner, taking up much less debt, launching their careers, and creating extra room for extra college students to come back and be a part of this neighborhood.”
Adjustments in Pell Scholar Commencement Charges Outpace the Pack
Since 2020, will increase in UT’s four-year commencement charges for Pell-eligible college students have outpaced the rise of all undergraduates. Throughout this time, the commencement charge for all undergraduates elevated by 2.6 share factors, whereas the commencement charges for Pell-eligible (67.5%) elevated by 3.6 share factors.
Affordability is a driver of scholar efficiency, lowering scholar time dedication to part-time jobs and growing entry to on-campus housing, the place college students statistically carry out higher.
Packages akin to UT for Me — powered by Dell Students and Texas Advance Dedication — have contributed to considerably reducing the price of attendance, significantly for Pell-eligible college students. The common web tuition for UT undergraduate college students has dropped to $4,152, 28.6% under common web tuition simply 4 years in the past and 35% of the listed price. The College’s housing affordability scholarship, now in its second yr, has made campus housing extra inexpensive for college students with the best monetary want, awarding as much as $2,300 in annual help to pay for UT-owned housing.
Decade-Plus of Unprecedented Features in Commencement Charges
Fall 2024 completes a decade-plus of unprecedented good points in graduation-rate success, together with dramatic will increase in retention and commencement charges for college students throughout all ethnicities and socioeconomic teams attributed to campuswide scholar success packages launched in 2012–2013.
4-Yr Undergraduate Commencement Charges Since 2013
Six-Yr Undergraduate Commencement Charges Since 2013
*Black contains each “Black or African American alone” and “Black or African American Multiracial (excluding Hispanic) | **Displays earliest verifiable knowledge from 2014
Scholar variety continues to be a trademark of Texas’ flagship college, as UT continues to expertise good points in college students of Hispanic, Black and Asian ethnicity. Hispanic and Black college students proceed to comprise 25.5% and 5.4%, respectively, of the College’s undergraduate and graduate enrollment. College students of Asian descent make up 22.4% of the full.
Fall Enrollment (Graduate and Undergraduate) by Gender and Race/Ethnicity, Fall 2023 to Fall 2024
All 2024 figures on this information launch are as of the twelfth class day. Closing figures can be launched on-line in Traits in Scholar Knowledge, the definitive supply of annual knowledge in regards to the College.
