The University of Texas at Austin

Undergraduate Demographics

There are several links off of this page that we think are useful to you in being a successful Computer Sciences major. Other links allow you to explore opportunities in student leadership, research, career preparation, departmental employment, and graduate school preparation.

The Department of Computer Sciences will email weekly news and events to your Unix account, so it's important to check your account. The Weekly News emails will be archived if you happen to miss an announcement.

These resources are intended to supplement your contact with the academic advisors in the CS Undergraduate Advising Office, not supplant it. Please continue to visit the academic advisors in PAI 5.60!

As of Spring 2012, we have 613 Entry-level Computer Science majors and 738 Computer Science majors, giving us a total of 1351 undergraduates. The number of Computer Science majors includes students in the BA and BS programs, as well as our 83 Turing Scholars honors students. The break down of our overall population by class, gender, ethnicity, and residency is given below.

Current Students Students Percentages
Classification
Freshmen 170 12.58%
Sophomores 251 18.58%
Juniors 303 22.43%
Seniors 627 46.41%
Gender
Male 1159 85.79%
Female 192 14.21%
Ethnicity
White 562 41.60%
American Indian 4 0.30%
African American 49 3.63%
Asian American 357 26.42%
Hispanic 221 16.36%
International 50 3.70%
Not reported 108 7.99%
Residency Status
Texas 1203 89.05%
Non-resident 55 4.07%
Foreign 93 6.88%