2025-2026 Interactive Fact Book

Overview
Gender Male (M), or Female (F).
Ethnicity White, Black, Hispanic, Asian-American, Native American, or International (Mexican/Other).
Classification Freshman – fewer than 30 semester credit hours; Sophomore – 30-59 semester credit hours; Junior – 60-89 semester credit hours; Senior – 90 or more semester credit hours.
Level Undergraduate (UG), Post-Baccalaureate (PB), Masters (GR), or Doctoral (DR).
Post-baccalaureate Students possessing a baccalaureate degree but who have not been admitted to a graduate program.
Full/Part Time Undergraduate students who enroll for at least 12 credit hours and graduate students who enroll for at least nine credit hours are considered full-time students.
New Students
Regular Admit Freshmen who rank in the top half of their class or who score a minimum of 920 on the SAT or a 20 composite on the ACT are automatically admitted to UTEP upon application and submission of the appropriate admission documents. This policy includes admission of graduates of an accredited Texas high school who graduated in the top 25% of their high school class, as described in Chapter 51 of the Texas Education Code.
START (Provisional) Admit

Residents of Texas who do not meet the requirements for regular admission are eligible for provisional admission through the University's START Program. START students must attend Orientation, must be advised by the Academic Advising Center, must select their classes from a list of prescribed university courses, and must take a free, non-credit study skills course.

During the first semester at UTEP, a START student must complete at least 9 semester hours with a minimum grade of C in each course selected from at least two of the following areas: English, Mathematics, Natural Science, Foreign Language, or Liberal Arts (Anthropology, Art, Communication, History, Music, Psychology, Sociology, or Theatre Arts). A minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 must also be maintained. Once these requirements have been met, the student becomes fully admitted to the University and may change majors.
First-time Freshman Student who graduated from high school and who had never attended college prior to enrolling for the first time at UTEP in a fall semester.
First-time, Full-time Freshman Student who graduated from high school and who had never attended college prior to enrolling for the first time at UTEP in a fall semester for at least 12 credit hours.
Enrollment
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Numerous methods are available to calculate FTE students, but only two are used here. The 15-12-9 method divides the total of all undergraduate credit hours by 15, all masters' credit hours by 12, and all doctoral credit hours by 9. The 12-9-9 method counts the number of students taking a full-time load (12 for undergraduate, 9 for graduate) and adds the full-time equivalent of part-time students, which is determined by dividing the credit hours taken by each part-time student by the full-time load at that level.
Majors
Student FTE/
Teacher FTE
Ratio		 Student FTE uses the 15-12-9 method. Teacher FTE is calculated by teaching or administrative appointment percent times which directly supplement the teaching function.
Courses
Semester Credit Hour (SCH) A unit of measurement assigned to a course. Total SCH are computed by multiplying the number of credit hours assigned to a course by the number of students enrolled in the course.
Exceed SCH SCH generated by students whose SCH exceeds the state funding limit: Students whose undergraduate SCH attempted exceed the degree program plus 30 SCH for fall 2006 and later (45 SCH for fall 1999 through summer 2006); Students who have attempted the same course three or more times; Students whose developmental SCH exceeds 18 SCH.
Organized Classes Lectures, laboratories, seminars, or any combination of these types of instruction.
Faculty
Tenured/Tenure-track faculty All faculty with one of the following ranks: Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor.
Nontenure-track faculty All faculty with a rank of lecturer, visiting faculty or specialist. Assistant instructors, teaching assistants, or adjunct faculty are included if they are teachers of record.
Full-time All faculty with one of the following ranks, regardless of the time actually employed: Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor; also, nontenure-track faculty whose percent time is at least 100% in direct instructional activity.
Part-time All nontenure-track faculty whose percent time is less than 100% in direct instructional activity.
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Counts the number of full-time faculty and adds the full-time equivalent of part-time faculty, which is determined by the percent of their time spent in direct instructional activity.