18 Characteristics of Texas Public Doctoral Programs

Program1
Degree awarded
Program Web site

Measure

Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

PhD
www.me.utexas.edu/areas/orie/

Operational Definition

Departmental Response

Number of Degrees Per For each of the three most recent years, average of the
Year
number of degrees awarded per academic year.

Graduation Rates

For each of the three most recent years, the average of

2010-11
3

2011-12
8

2012-13
3

75.00%

100.00%

88.00%

5.7

5.4

33.3%
employed

87.5%
employed

84.30%

86.70%

Comments (if needed)

the percent of first-year doctoral students who

graduated within ten years.
3

Average Time to
Degree

Employment Profile (in For each of the three most recent years, the number and
field within one year of percent of graduates by year employed, those still
graduation)
seeking employment, and unknown.

Admission Criteria

Percentage of Full-time
4
FTS / number of students enrolled (headcount) for the
Students
last three fall semesters.

Average Institutional
Financial Support
Provided

For those receiving financial support, the average

monetary institutional support provided per full-time
graduate student for the prior year from assistantships,
scholarships, stipends, grants, and fellowships (does not
include tuition or benefits). If you wish to indicate tuition
and benefits in addition to the Responses here, please
include amounts and reason in "Comments".

17,368.00

Percentage Full-Time
Students with
Institutional Financial
Support

In the prior year, the number of FTS with at least $1000

of annual support / the number of FTS.

91.30%

Number of Core
Faculty

Number of core faculty in the prior year.

10 Student to Core
Faculty Ratio

Updated 7/16/12

For each of the three most recent years, average of the

graduates' time to degree.

Departmental exit survey was not

used during the 2012-2013
academic year

Description of admission factors.

For each of the three most recent years, average of fulltime student equivalent (FTSE) / average of full-time
faculty equivalent (FTFE) of core faculty.

91.40%

5.38

4.88

4.57

18 Characteristics of Texas Public Doctoral Programs

11 Core Faculty
Publications

For each of the three most recent years, average of the

number of discipline-related refereed papers or
publications, books or book chapters, juried creative or
performance accomplishments, and notices of discoveries
files or patents issued per core faculty member

25

12 Core Faculty External

Grants

For each of the three most recent years, (1) average of (1) 5
(2)
the number of core faculty receiving external funds, (2)
230,046
average external funds per faculty, and (3) total external
(3)
1,150,230
funds per program per academic year.5

13 Faculty Teaching Load

Total number of semester credit hours in organized

teaching courses taught per academic year by core
faculty divided by the number of core faculty.

14 Faculty Diversity

Core faculty by ethnicity (White, Black, Hispanic, Other)

and gender, updated when changed.

15 Student Diversity

Enrollment headcount by ethnicity (White, Black,

Hispanic, Other) and gender in program during the prior
year.

16 Date of Last External

Review

Date of last formal external review, updated when

changed.

17 External Program
Accreditation

Name of body and date of last program accreditation

review, if applicable, updated when changed.

We do not have the 2012-2013

information at this time.

(1) 5
(2)
258,003
(3)
1,290,017

(1) 5
(2)
160,071
(3)
960,428

327.3

322.3

353

White
7 (M - 7,
F - 0)

Black
0 (M - 0,
F - 0)

Hispanic
0 (M - 0,
F - 0)

Other
0 (M - 0,
F - 0)

White
5 (M - 5,
F - 0)

Black
0 (M - 0,
F - 0)

Hispanic
2 (M - 2,
F - 0)

Other
25
(M - 17,
F - 8)

6/1/10

SACS

Spring 2013

18 Student Publications & For the three most recent years, the number of disciplinePresentations
related papers & publications, juried creative or
performance accomplishments, book chapters, books,
and external presentations per year by student FTE.

We do not have this information at

this time.

Programs included only if in existence three or more years. Program is defined at the 8-digit CIP code level.

First-year doctoral students. Those students who have matriculated as doctoral students with a doctoral degree objective.

For each academic year, the time to degree is defined as beginning the year students matriculated with a doctoral degree objective until the year they graduated.

Definition of Full Time Student (FTS) is institutional by program.

All external funds received by core faculty from any source including research grants, training grants, gifts from foundations, etc., reported as expenditures.

Updated 7/16/12