{"id":20146,"date":"2021-02-15T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:21:44","slug":"ihe-enrollment-trends-in-texas-demographic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2021\/02\/15\/ihe-enrollment-trends-in-texas-demographic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"IHE Enrollment Trends in Texas: Demographic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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IHE Enrollment Trends in Texas: Demographic Data<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) recently published more granular enrollment data for all public universities in Texas, providing the first insight into how COVID-19 affected student enrollment across demographic groups. In the previous blog post<\/a>, we showed that\u00a0statewide enrollment at public universities increased from 657,985 in fall 2019 to 667,046 in fall 2020, which represents a 1.4% gain in enrollment. This increase also reversed a one-year dip in university-wide enrollment across the state, as there was a 234 headcount drop from fall 2018 to fall 2019. The remainder of this blog will dig more deeply into enrollment trends based on level of enrollment and demographic variables across Texas, within public university systems, and at public universities.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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As introduced in the previous blog post, we are once again presenting visualizations by using tabs that provide different views of the data under consideration. For example, the first tab,\u00a0labeled STATEWIDE (2015-2020) at the top of the visualization below<\/strong><\/span>, shows statewide data broken down by level of enrollment. Within each fall semester (shown on the x-axis), undergraduate student enrollment across public universities in Texas has comprised roughly 80% of overall enrollment each year, as the over 44,000 headcount increase from 2015 to 2020 represents a 9% increase\u00a0in undergraduate enrollment<\/b>. The graduate enrollment has grown as well, but at a much more moderate rate, increasing by almost 4,200 students since 2015 for a 3.5% gain in graduate enrollment<\/b> across Texas. The smallest portion of the stacked bar chart represents the group of students who are enrolled as post-baccalaureate students, a segment that annually comprises about 1.5% of overall enrollment at Texas public universities.<\/p>\n

The second tab, SYSTEMS (2015 & 2020)<\/span><\/strong>, shows the same data as in the STATEWIDE tab, but broken down by the six public university systems in Texas, with the public independent universities grouped together. At the top of the visualization sits the University of Texas System (UTS), which grew by more than 20,000 students overall from 2015 to 2020, representing a 9.9% increase. Approximately 90% of the UTS growth occurred at the undergraduate level, which increased by more than 18,000 students, or 11.4%. The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) saw a 6.4% increase from 2015 to 2020 overall, including a 10,000-plus gain at the undergraduate level, representing a 9.4% growth. The largest percentage growth was at the Texas Tech University System (TTUS), which grew by over 14% from 2015 to 2020.<\/p>\n

Similar views for each public university in Texas are shown through a succession of tabs at the top of the visualizations that group public universities in Texas by enrollment bands (i.e., \u201c<5K\u201d, \u201c5K-10K\u201d, \u201c10K-15K\u201d, etc.).\u00a0<\/span>Clicking on the tabs will show the university-level enrollment trends from 2015 to 2020.<\/u><\/i><\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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