Admissions & selectivity
The University of Texas at Tyler Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at The University of Texas at Tyler?
The University of Texas at Tyler’s reported acceptance rate is 94.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 94.0%
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 Tyler Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Texas at Tyler admitted 94.0% of applicants, a rate above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 5,476 first-year applicants, 5,194 admitted, and 1,542 enrolled.
What SAT and ACT scores do The University of Texas at Tyler students report?
The academic profile at The University of Texas at Tyler is based on score ranges among enrolled students who submitted results, not admission minimums. The middle half of SAT submitters scored from 1,010 to 1,200, covering the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles.
For ACT submitters, the corresponding middle half ran from 20 to 26. Applicants should place their SAT score against the university's 1,010 to 1,200 range and their ACT score against its 20 to 26 range.
Those figures offer context for recent enrolled score submitters, rather than a cutoff, and do not describe every member of the entering class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at The University of Texas at Tyler. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1010
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1200
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
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 26
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at The University of Texas at Tyler?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 39.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 47.7%
- First-year retention
- 76.8%
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.
The University of Texas at Tyler serves an undergraduate body that includes both Pell Grant recipients and many people who began college elsewhere. Pell Grants go to 39.7% of undergraduates, while an estimated 47.7% of entrants transfer in; federal undergraduate enrollment is 7,440.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 5,476 first-year applicants, 5,194 admitted, and 1,542 enrolled. It also reported 2,161 transfer applicants, 2,114 admitted, and 1,261 enrolled.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should compare aid offers and confirm how completed courses will apply. The Pell and transfer figures point to multiple common entry paths into the university.
The University of Texas at Tyler posts retention and completion rates above the relevant medians for comparable institutions. Its first-year retention rate is 76.8%, above the peer median of 73.7%.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 54.1%, also above the peer median of 49.1%. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported a retention rate of 78% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class.
Pell recipients have a six-year completion rate of 53.6%, below the overall rate by 0.5 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect federal retention and completion measures that exceed their relevant peer medians.
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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