Graduation Statistics

The Graduate Program at the University of Texas at Austin has always had an excellent record of graduating students. We have the normal attrition of students who voluntarily leave the program for various professional and personal reasons, but instances of students being formally asked to leave the program for academic reasons are rare. We endeavor to give students the support they need to persevere and succeed. The table below shows the retention statistics for the last 17 years. The years 1993-1996 had anomalously high attrition rates due to the number of students who transferred to computer science or related employment. Over the past 10 years, only a few students have been dismissed for academic reasons.

Year
 		Students
Entered
 		Received
PhD
 		Still in
Program
 		% Completed
or Continuing
1991
 		7
 		6
 		0
 		86%
1992
 		5
 		3
 		0
 		60%
1993
 		10
 		5
 		0
 		50%
1994
 		6
 		2
 		0
 		33%
1995
 		4
 		2
 		0
 		50%
1996
 		11
 		5
 		0
 		45%
1997
 		3
 		2
 		0
 		67%
1998
 		7
 		5
 		0
 		71%
1999
 		7
 		6
 		0
 		86%
2000
 		17
 		11
 		0
 		65%
2001
 		6
 		2
 		2
 		67%
2002
 		12
 		1
 		9
 		83%
2003
 		5
 		1
 		4
 		100%
2004
 		8
 		0
 		7
 		88%
2005
 		10
 		0
 		10
 		100%
2006
 		12
 		0
 		12
 		100%
2007
 		3
 		-
 		3
 		100%
TOTALS
 		132
 		51
 		46
 		73%