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unitid 228778 · Austin, TX · public 4-year · city (large)

The University of Texas at Austin

Public research university in the United States

founded
1883
enrollment 2023
55,710
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of The University of Texas at Austin

Kurt Kaiser · CC0

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. wikipedia rev 1360054338 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

27%

3rd pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

42,855

99th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

26%

undergrads on Pell grants

30th pctl among public 4-years

completion

89%

finish within 150% time

98th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$31,247

91st pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$19,857

after aid, aided students

91st pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$75,121

after entry, Title IV students

95th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$20,500

59th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $12,553 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    26%
  • 30-48k
    16%
  • 48-75k
    16%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$53,018
First-generation students
28%
In-state tuition & fees
$11,688

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.7× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Biological and Physical Sciences.866——
Biology, General.590$65,785$21,893
Business Administration, Management and Operations.535$183,281—
Psychology, General.514$55,701$19,750
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.487$79,337$20,995
Computer and Information Sciences, General.470$132,436$20,500
Finance and Financial Management Services.434$116,432$20,500
Computer and Information Sciences, General.350——
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering.342$123,101$20,500
Political Science and Government.340$70,835$20,500
Public Health.313$67,931$21,500
Mathematics.308$86,814$20,500

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

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  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 8,186 people recorded

Memory

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.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

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

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

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Provenance

  • 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.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1360054338), CC BY-SA 4.0.