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The University of Texas at Austin

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  1. Families earning under $30k paid $12,553 a year after grants and aid, against a published cost of $31,247.

  2. Students who received federal aid earned a median $75,121 ten years after entering, the 95th percentile among public 4-years.

  3. 89% of students finish within 150% of normal time.

Founded
1883
Enrollment, 2023
55,710
Website
utexas.edu
Campus of The University of Texas at Austin

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The University of Texas at Austin is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,864 students as of fall 2024, it is also the largest institution in the system.

From the Wikipedia article “University of Texas at Austin”, revision 1360054338, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

What it costs

The published sticker cost is $31,247 a year; after grants, families who received aid paid between $12,553 and $30,082 a year depending on income at The University of Texas at Austin.

Statement of cost · The University of Texas at Austin

Family income (per year)
Sticker costPublished yearly cost of attendance, all students
$31,247
What families earning under $30k paidYearly net price after grants, for students receiving federal aid
$12,553
Average net price, all incomesAided students, all family incomes
$19,857
In-state tuition & feesLatest reported, 2024
$11,688

Each figure is reported separately; none is computed from another.

Net price by family income

Pick an income bracket above; the marked point follows. Dollars are what aided families paid each year after grants.

Yearly net price by family income, in dollars

under $30k: $12,553; $30–48k: $14,297; $48–75k: $17,207; $75–110k: $24,406; over $110k: $30,082. Shaded band: middle half of public 4-years, from $8,778 to $16,425; dotted line at the median, $12,780.
  • Shaded: the middle half of public 4-years (all incomes), $8,778 to $16,425. Dotted line: the median, $12,780.
Table of the same numbers
Average yearly net price by family income bracket
Family incomePaid per year
Under $30k$12,553
$30k–$48k$14,297
$48k–$75k$17,207
$75k–$110k$24,406
Over $110k$30,082

College Scorecard, 2023–24 aid cohort (students who received federal aid)

What graduates earn and owe

Ten years after entry, the median federally aided student here earns $75,121; the median graduate who borrowed owes $20,500.

Statement, continued

Earnings, 6 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
$60,896
Earnings, 8 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
$68,554
Median earnings 10 years after entryFederally aided (Title IV) students only. Median.
95th percentile among public 4-years
$75,121
Median debt, graduatesStudents who finished and borrowed federal loans.
59th percentile among public 4-years
$20,500
Median debt, all who borrowedEveryone who borrowed, whether or not they finished.
$18,909

Earnings and debt come from federal aid records, so students who never received federal aid are not counted.

Earnings after entry

The shaded band is the middle half of public 4-years at 10 years: $42,655 to $60,720.

6 yrs after entry: $60,896; 8 yrs after entry: $68,554; 10 yrs after entry: $75,121. Median graduate debt: $20,500. Shaded band: middle half of public 4-years at 10 years, from $42,655 to $60,720; dotted line at the median, $50,178.
  • Shaded: middle half of public 4-years, 10 years out ($42,655 to $60,720); dotted line is the median.
  • Dashed: median graduate debt, $20,500.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Hollow marks are rungs with no reported value, not zero.

Table of the same numbers
Earnings after entry and graduate debt
MeasureDollars
Median earnings, 6 yrs after entry$60,896
Median earnings, 8 yrs after entry$68,554
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry$75,121
Median graduate debt$20,500

College Scorecard, federal tax and aid records

What programs pay

Median earnings five years after completing, by field of study. Small programs are privacy-suppressed and shown as not reported, never zero.

What programs pay at The University of Texas at Austin
ProgramCredentialGraduatesEarnings, 5 yrsMedian debt
Biological and Physical SciencesUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma866not reportednot reported
Biology, GeneralBachelor's Degree590$65,785$21,893
Business Administration, Management and OperationsMaster's Degree535$183,281not reported
Psychology, GeneralBachelor's Degree514$55,701$19,750
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied CommunicationBachelor's Degree487$79,337$20,995
Computer and Information Sciences, GeneralBachelor's Degree470$132,436$20,500
Finance and Financial Management ServicesBachelor's Degree434$116,432$20,500
Computer and Information Sciences, GeneralUndergraduate Certificate or Diploma350not reportednot reported
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications EngineeringBachelor's Degree342$123,101$20,500
Political Science and GovernmentBachelor's Degree340$70,835$20,500
Public HealthBachelor's Degree313$67,931$21,500
MathematicsBachelor's Degree308$86,814$20,500
Show all 27 programs
Remaining programs
ProgramCredentialGraduatesEarnings, 5 yrsMedian debt
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular BiologyBachelor's Degree303$73,667$19,000
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and HumanitiesBachelor's Degree294$65,567$19,052
EconomicsBachelor's Degree294$97,244$21,125
LawFirst Professional Degree278$159,411not reported
Mechanical EngineeringBachelor's Degree275$104,021$18,750
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/FitnessBachelor's Degree272$67,127$22,361
Radio, Television, and Digital CommunicationBachelor's Degree262$55,238$23,044
Neurobiology and NeurosciencesBachelor's Degree262not reported$23,612
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications EngineeringMaster's Degree0$174,177not reported
LawDoctoral Degreenot reportednot reportednot reported
LawBachelor's Degreenot reportednot reportednot reported
Engineering-Related FieldsBachelor's Degreenot reportednot reportednot reported
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationBachelor's Degreenot reportednot reportednot reported
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and AdministrationDoctoral Degree15not reportednot reported
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical NursingDoctoral Degree32not reportednot reported

Source: College Scorecard field-of-study data.

Who goes here

The University of Texas at Austin: 42,855 undergraduates; 26% of students receive Pell grants; 27% of applicants are admitted.

Admission rate

27%

3rd percentile among public 4-years

Undergraduates

42,855

99th percentile among public 4-years

Pell share

26%

of undergraduates receive Pell grants

30th percentile among public 4-years

Completion

89%

finish within 150% of normal time

98th percentile among public 4-years

First-generation

28%

parents did not attend college

Median family income

$53,018

78th percentile among public 4-years

Students by family income

Share of students in each family-income bracket, for students who received federal aid.

  • Under $30k26%
  • $30k–$48k16%
  • $48k–$75k16%
  • $75k–$110knot reported
  • Over $110knot reported
Show as a table
Students by family income
Family incomeShare of students
Under $30k26%
$30k–$48k16%
$48k–$75k16%
$75k–$110knot reported
Over $110knot reported

Who Wikipedia remembers

Wikidata records 8,186 people who studied at The University of Texas at Austin, most often in science & academia (52%). That is the archive's memory, not a census.

What the recorded alumni are remembered for

Share of recorded people by field, in a fixed order so schools compare.

Fields of the people the archive recorded for this school, in a fixed order: science & academia 52% (3,729 people); medicine 1.0% (72 people); law 2.9% (205 people); politics & gov 4.5% (319 people); business 2.9% (209 people); engineering & tech 4.5% (322 people); writing & journalism 7.2% (514 people); film & stage 3.5% (252 people); music 2.4% (170 people); visual arts 2.4% (173 people); sports 16% (1,116 people); religion 0.2% (13 people); military 0.9% (67 people). These are shares of people recorded in Wikidata, the archive's memory, not a census of alumni.
Table of the same numbers
Fields of the people the archive recorded for this school (the archive's memory, not a census)
FieldPeople recordedShare
science & academia3,72952.1%
medicine721.0%
law2052.9%
politics & gov3194.5%
business2092.9%
engineering & tech3224.5%
writing & journalism5147.2%
film & stage2523.5%
music1702.4%
visual arts1732.4%
sports1,11615.6%
religion130.2%
military670.9%

Source: Wikidata, via the archive's memory (not a census).

most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,196) · university teacher (884) · basketball player (523) · politician (282) · writer (263) · American football player (262) · academic (245) · lawyer (185)

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

Counts reflect who the archive records, not a census.

Share of women among recorded alumni, from 16% for the 1870s to 35% for the 2000s. Decades with fewer than 5 recorded people are not drawn, and 2 decades are marked not reported for women. The line breaks at every decade not drawn.

Counts only people the archive records with a gender. Hollow marks are decades with no women reported or fewer than 5 recorded, not zero.

Table of the same numbers
Recorded alumni by birth decade
BornWomenMenShare women
1850s1not reportednot reported
1860snot reported12not reported
1870s52616%
1880s112531%
1890s174229%
1900s2410019%
1910s2011814%
1920s3018414%
1930s4121116%
1940s10630826%
1950s12539024%
1960s12930630%
1970s13122836%
1980s8714637%
1990s7812139%
2000s468535%

Source: Wikidata, via the archive's memory (not a census).

Wikipedia attention, by month

Wikipedia attention

monthly views

Monthly Wikipedia article views from 2015-07 to 2026-06; peak 65,994 in 2016-09.
Table of the same numbers
Wikipedia article views by month
MonthViews
2026-0623,608
2026-0528,793
2026-0428,250
2026-0332,403
2026-0229,001
2026-0131,189
2025-1236,516
2025-1141,992
2025-1037,630
2025-0940,310
2025-0840,018
2025-0729,887
2025-0629,467
2025-0534,211
2025-0436,139
2025-0340,064
2025-0235,034
2025-0153,422
2024-1261,075
2024-1149,052
2024-1054,682
2024-0958,233
2024-0849,584
2024-0745,616
2024-0636,837
2024-0542,797
2024-0451,078
2024-0350,228
2024-0243,596
2024-0162,258
2023-1250,347
2023-1147,603
2023-1049,538
2023-0958,717
2023-0851,598
2023-0741,677
2023-0639,850
2023-0544,116
2023-0446,844
2023-0357,007
2023-0240,400
2023-0149,613
2022-1245,691
2022-1148,584
2022-1051,430
2022-0956,742
2022-0849,191
2022-0742,169
2022-0646,814
2022-0544,630
2022-0443,725
2022-0344,591
2022-0241,887
2022-0147,506
2021-1244,503
2021-1153,362
2021-1052,429
2021-0954,101
2021-0854,952
2021-0759,857
2021-0634,349
2021-0536,891
2021-0443,088
2021-0352,024
2021-0236,574
2021-0151,948
2020-1248,006
2020-1157,036
2020-1055,429
2020-0935,931
2020-0833,787
2020-0731,850
2020-0635,366
2020-0545,197
2020-0448,613
2020-0342,103
2020-0245,347
2020-0150,798
2019-1248,717
2019-1153,073
2019-1057,481
2019-0963,389
2019-0848,173
2019-0741,349
2019-0637,311
2019-0544,877
2019-0447,890
2019-0353,732
2019-0240,409
2019-0156,567
2018-1253,078
2018-1158,407
2018-1065,056
2018-0962,429
2018-0852,877
2018-0745,757
2018-0642,056
2018-0550,768
2018-0451,201
2018-0355,489
2018-0241,793
2018-0140,656
2017-1241,127
2017-1145,998
2017-1048,572
2017-0950,960
2017-0846,244
2017-0738,513
2017-0637,440
2017-0550,968
2017-0448,794
2017-0349,777
2017-0244,619
2017-0148,502
2016-1247,194
2016-1149,906
2016-1051,009
2016-0965,994
2016-0849,861
2016-0738,616
2016-0640,907
2016-0545,182
2016-0446,494
2016-0346,829
2016-0244,533
2016-0143,328
2015-1243,960
2015-1146,276
2015-1051,481
2015-0950,171
2015-0841,771
2015-0739,214

Source: Wikimedia pageviews.

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Hermann Joseph Muller Medicine 1946
  • J. M. Coetzee Literature 2003
  • Michael W. Young Medicine 2017
  • James P. Allison Medicine 2018

The portrait wall

Ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).

Show all 15 portraits

Similar schools

These are the nearest neighbors in the same sector. The list is not an ordering.

Sources & caveats

Figures come from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. Built 2026-07-17.

not reported
Not reported: suppressed for privacy or never collected. It is not zero, and nothing has been filled in.
Percentiles
A percentile compares this school with others in its own sector (for example, public 4-year schools). It describes position, not quality.
Earnings
Earnings cover students who received federal (Title IV) aid, measured from the year they entered. Students who never received federal aid are not included.
Provenance notes
  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.

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