Blog · From the data · October 2, 2026
Texas lists point mostly at Texas
- The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M together hold 15.2% of all the students counted across the 18 Texas lists that print numbers.
- 90 Texas high schools publish a list of where their graduates went. 18 of them print a count beside each college.
- Westwood High School in Austin stands first on the UT Austin board, at 90 students a class year.
Ninety Texas high schools publish something about where their graduates went. A matriculation list is where a school says which colleges its graduates enrolled in. Most Texas lists give names, with no counts. Eighteen print a number next to each college: 12 private schools and 6 public ones.
Those 18 are the lists we can add up. Here are the colleges with the largest totals.
| College | Students across the 18 Texas lists |
|---|---|
| University of Texas, Austin | 641 |
| Texas A & M University, College Station | 453 |
| Rice University | 158 |
| Austin Community College | 143 |
| Southern Methodist University | 133 |
| Texas Christian University | 115 |
Those totals are our sums of the counts the schools printed. No school published a total like this. The lists also cover different spans of time, from one graduating class to five. So read the column as volume, not as a rate per year.
The first two rows carry the point. UT Austin and Texas A&M together hold 15.2% of the students counted across all 18 lists. Five more Texas campuses fill out most of the rest of the table. The largest names from outside Texas are New York University and Tulane University, at 89 students each.
One Austin school leads the UT Austin board
Westwood High School in Austin stands first on the UT Austin feeder board, at 90 students per class year. Its Class of 2026 list names 137 colleges. LASA, also in Austin, is second at 54, from a Class of 2025 list of 115 colleges.
The same two schools stand first and second on the Texas A&M board and on the Austin Community College board as well.
A list without counts cannot be ranked this way. Highland Park High School in Dallas names 125 colleges for its Class of 2025 and prints no numbers. That list tells a family the range of places the class landed. It is not part of any total above.
What this data is
Every figure here comes from a school's own published college list, copied as printed. Class years are the years each school states, which is why the spans differ. Counts are the numbers the school printed; a list with names and no numbers carries no counts.