Admissions & selectivity
The University of Texas at Dallas Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at UT Dallas?
UT Dallas’s reported acceptance rate is 65.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 65.1%
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 Dallas Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Texas at Dallas admitted 65.1% of applicants, a rate below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 36,353 applicants, 25,115 admitted, and 4,948 enrolled first-year students.
What SAT and ACT scores do UT Dallas students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, The University of Texas at Dallas reported class ranks for enrolled first-year students who submitted one. 38% were at or above the ninetieth percentile, 70% at or above the seventy-fifth, and 94% at or above the fiftieth.
These shares describe students who reported a rank, not the entire entering class. The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 1,160 and 1,410.
For ACT submitters, the corresponding range was 24 to 32. Applicants should weigh their own scores against the university's SAT range of 1,160 to 1,410 and ACT range of 24 to 32, because these describe enrolled submitters, not minimums.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at UT Dallas. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1160
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1410
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
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at UT Dallas?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 30.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 32.6%
- First-year retention
- 89.9%
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 36,353 first-year applicants, 25,115 admitted, and 4,948 enrolled. The University of Texas at Dallas enrolls 21,751 undergraduates overall, with 30.0% receiving Pell Grants.
An estimated 32.6% enter as transfers or part-time students, so the undergraduate population mixes direct entrants and students who began their studies elsewhere. The university also reported 5,360 transfer applicants, 3,275 admitted, and 1,911 enrolled.
Students weighing Pell eligibility or transfer entry should review the program pages for their intended field and use the cost calculator to estimate their own price.
The University of Texas at Dallas retains 90.0% of its full-time first-year students, and 75.7% finish within six years. Both figures run above the medians for comparable institutions, which are 83.1% for retention and 65.0% for completion.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 90% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete at 68.2%, which is 7.5 percentage points below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect strong persistence.
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.
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