UNT Dallas 2020 Master Plan

CHAPTER 3 SPACE NEEDS PROJECTIONS AND PROGRAM
3.2 SPACE ANALYSIS ASSUMPTIONS
Enrollment targets of 8,000
headcount students in the midterm
and 25,000 students in the
future were used as the basis.
UNT Dallas currently serves approximately 4,000
students (headcount) at its main campus and in the
College of Law, and through online instruction. The
space needs analysis projected the university's space
requirements for current enrollment, and for future
enrollments of 8,000 students in the mid-term and
25,000 students in the long-term. The following
assumptions informed in the analysis:
• Full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment, rather than
headcount, was used to project space needs. FTE
enrollment provides a more accurate measure of
the demand for space, as it accounts for part-time
students, who may only attend one or two courses
at a time.
TABLE 3.1: PROJECTED UNT DALLAS FTE
POPULATION AT ENROLLMENT MILESTONES
Enrollment Milestones 2019 8,000 hc 25,000 hc
Main Campus
Total Enrollment FTE 2,294 4,790 15,510
Undergraduate 2,117 4,400 14,310
Graduate 177 390 1,200
Faculty FTE 151 280 860
Staff FTE 279 530 1,590
College of Law
Enrollment FTE 372 530 620
Faculty FTE 55 80 110
Staff FTE 38 60 90
• FTE enrollment was determined using THECB
metrics, which are based on credit hours, with
15 credit hours for a full-time undergraduate
student, and 12 credit hours for a full-time
graduate student. These metrics generated
FTE enrollments of approximately 2,700 FTE
for 4,000 headcount students, 5,300 FTE for
8,000 headcount, and 16,100 FTE for 25,000
headcount.
• The College of Law has a current enrollment
of 370 FTE. The dean of the college provided
projections for future enrollment, which were
approximately 530 FTE for the overall university
8,000-student enrollment milestone, and 620
FTE for the 25,000-student milestone.
• For the purposes of the analysis, enrollment
in online courses was deducted from the FTE
figures, as these courses do not generate a
demand for space.
• The projections maintained current studentto-faculty
and student-to-staff ratios, and used
industry standards to convert part-time faculty
and staff to FTE.
• The analysis incorporated the university's plans
to provide an additional 900 beds of student
housing for the 8,000-student milestone
goals, and to accommodate 20 percent of FTE
enrollment for the 25,000-student milestone.
Table 3.1 contains a breakdown of enrollment and
faculty and staff FTE today, and for each enrollment
milestone at the main campus and the College
of Law. Historic and projected annual headcount
enrollment from 2015 through 2030 is illustrated
in Table 3.1. Further detail on the assumptions
underlying the space analysis are provided in an
appendix to this report.
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