Admissions & selectivity
The University of Texas at Austin Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at UT Austin?
UT Austin’s reported acceptance rate is 26.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 26.6%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
Source: The University of Texas at Austin Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Texas at Austin admitted 26.6% of applicants, a rate well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 90,690 applicants, 20,154 admitted students, and 9,900 enrolled first-year students.
What SAT and ACT scores do UT Austin students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted scores, the middle half of SAT submitters scored between 1,250 and 1,510. The corresponding ACT range is 27 to 33.
These figures describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of submitted scores, not every enrolled student or a minimum for admission. They give applicants a sense of where recent score submitters landed.
Applicants can compare their own results with these ranges. The ranges reflect enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at UT Austin. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1250
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1510
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 27
- 75th percentile
- 33
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at UT Austin?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 25.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 18.6%
- First-year retention
- 96.7%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 90,690 first-year applicants, 20,154 admitted, and 9,900 enrolled. Overall undergraduate enrollment is 42,855, counting full-time and part-time students across all years and entry points.
An estimated 18.6% of all undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 25.9% receive Pell Grants. That mix brings together recent high-school graduates, students who started at another college, and undergraduates who receive Pell Grants.
Anyone applying with Pell eligibility or transfer credits should review how their credits apply toward a degree and estimate their own net price by income band before committing.
The university retains 96.7% of its full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students, a figure that sits above the 83.1% peer median. Six-year completion reaches 88.9%, exceeding the 65.0% median for comparable institutions.
Pell recipients finish at 80.1%, which is 8.8 percentage points below the rate for the cohort as a whole. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 97% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.
For the first-time, full-time fall 2019 entering class, the Common Data Set records a six-year graduation rate of 89.2% and a Pell-recipient rate of 84.0%, below the overall rate.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.