Randolph Duke
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Since we are getting close to visiting campus for the spring game, I thought I would start a thread on what is happening over on the academic side of the university, so that as we walk around campus and check things out, we have some idea what changes are occurring.
Yesterday, the Houston Endowment (a legacy institution of the Jesse Jones estate) published its 2014 Higher Education Almanac which puts some hard numbers on the enrollment figures, ethnic breakdown, graduation rate, full year costs of educating each student, sources of funds, etc for each public two year and four institution in the state. The link is provided below and the report is also attached in pdf format. Make what you want to from the numbers. (the link to the pdf copy of the report is at the bottom on the linked page).
One of the interesting things I noticed was that the cost per full time student at UT Austin is $46,235 (exclusive of room and board). Of that, just $9,480 is charged to the student as tuition and fees. The remainder is split between the institution, the state and the federal government ($15,014 institution revenue, $11,732 in state funding and $10,009 in federal funding). I haven't done any research into how this compares with most other major public universities nationally, but I will. For those wondering, the cost per full time aggy student is $28,873 ($7,873 tuition and fees, $9,069 institution funding, $9,064 state funding and $2,867 federal funding). I have mentioned before that UT has about 5,000 fewer students than aggy but spends more than a billion dollars more than tamu every year on non-capital expenses (professor salaries, equipment, labs materials, etc. The UT annual operating budget is around $2.4 B, for tamu it is around $1.3B). Both schools award roughly the same number of undergrad degrees (9,261 aggy, 9,207 UT). UT awards almost 40% more masters degrees than aggy and almost 70% more doctorate degrees than they do.
The other thing I found interesting was the test scores for enrolling freshman and how they rank against other in-state schools. As expected, UT Austin students have higher SAT and ACT scores on average than students at tamu (proving yet again the old adage that "The only we share in common with most aggys is that we both applied to UT"). Tech students scored, on average, lower than most ags. What really amazed me is that the one institution that was as selective as UT Austin was UT Dallas. UT-D was more selective in its admissions test scores than tamu.
I am looking forward to getting back to campus to check things out and to see the spring game. As some of you know, I am good friends with the associate dean over in the business school. I will do my best to drag him out to the tailgate in case anyone wants to ask him questions about what is happening on the academic side and in case anyone is bringing their kid who might want to ask him questions about admissions or student life on campus these days.
If anyone has anything to add about what is happening over on campus that we should try to check out, feel free to post it.
The report:
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectId=CE293EED-DD31-BCDE-51EB322FF8B856A8&flushcache=1&showDraft=1
Yesterday, the Houston Endowment (a legacy institution of the Jesse Jones estate) published its 2014 Higher Education Almanac which puts some hard numbers on the enrollment figures, ethnic breakdown, graduation rate, full year costs of educating each student, sources of funds, etc for each public two year and four institution in the state. The link is provided below and the report is also attached in pdf format. Make what you want to from the numbers. (the link to the pdf copy of the report is at the bottom on the linked page).
One of the interesting things I noticed was that the cost per full time student at UT Austin is $46,235 (exclusive of room and board). Of that, just $9,480 is charged to the student as tuition and fees. The remainder is split between the institution, the state and the federal government ($15,014 institution revenue, $11,732 in state funding and $10,009 in federal funding). I haven't done any research into how this compares with most other major public universities nationally, but I will. For those wondering, the cost per full time aggy student is $28,873 ($7,873 tuition and fees, $9,069 institution funding, $9,064 state funding and $2,867 federal funding). I have mentioned before that UT has about 5,000 fewer students than aggy but spends more than a billion dollars more than tamu every year on non-capital expenses (professor salaries, equipment, labs materials, etc. The UT annual operating budget is around $2.4 B, for tamu it is around $1.3B). Both schools award roughly the same number of undergrad degrees (9,261 aggy, 9,207 UT). UT awards almost 40% more masters degrees than aggy and almost 70% more doctorate degrees than they do.
The other thing I found interesting was the test scores for enrolling freshman and how they rank against other in-state schools. As expected, UT Austin students have higher SAT and ACT scores on average than students at tamu (proving yet again the old adage that "The only we share in common with most aggys is that we both applied to UT"). Tech students scored, on average, lower than most ags. What really amazed me is that the one institution that was as selective as UT Austin was UT Dallas. UT-D was more selective in its admissions test scores than tamu.
I am looking forward to getting back to campus to check things out and to see the spring game. As some of you know, I am good friends with the associate dean over in the business school. I will do my best to drag him out to the tailgate in case anyone wants to ask him questions about what is happening on the academic side and in case anyone is bringing their kid who might want to ask him questions about admissions or student life on campus these days.
If anyone has anything to add about what is happening over on campus that we should try to check out, feel free to post it.
The report:
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/index.cfm?objectId=CE293EED-DD31-BCDE-51EB322FF8B856A8&flushcache=1&showDraft=1
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