Admissions & selectivity
The University of Texas Permian Basin Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at The University of Texas Permian Basin?
The University of Texas Permian Basin’s reported acceptance rate is 94.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 94.9%
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 Permian Basin Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Admission is relatively broad at The University of Texas Permian Basin, where 94.9% of applicants were admitted. That rate is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 1,563 first-year applicants and 1,508 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled The University of Texas Permian Basin students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year SAT submitters scored from 900 to 1090, and 40% submitted SAT scores. These figures describe submitted scores among enrolled students, rather than admission minimums.
The ACT range for the middle half of enrolled submitters was 17 to 23, with 5% submitting ACT scores. Among first-year students with a reported class rank, 18% ranked in the upper tenth of their high-school class and 24% ranked in the upper quarter.
Applicants should compare their scores with the university’s 900 to 1090 SAT range or 17 to 23 ACT range, recognizing that each describes enrolled score submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at The University of Texas Permian Basin. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
40% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 900
- Median
- 1010
- 75th percentile
- 1090
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
5% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 17
- Median
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 23
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: The University of Texas Permian Basin Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at The University of Texas Permian Basin?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 38.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 51.4%
- First-year retention
- 60.9%
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.
At The University of Texas Permian Basin, transfer routes form a prominent part of undergraduate enrollment: an estimated 51.4% enter as transfers or part-time students. 38.7% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, and federal data list 3,911 undergraduates.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 851 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 819 admitted, and 572 enrolled. The enrollment mix includes aid recipients alongside many people continuing coursework begun elsewhere.
At The University of Texas Permian Basin, both retention and completion trail comparable institutions, so enrolled students should read the cohort outcomes closely. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 62% of the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class returned the next fall.
Federal data place first-year retention at 60.9%, below the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 39.7%, below the peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients complete within six years at 30.8%, below the overall rate by 8.9 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect these rates to describe past cohorts rather than any individual path through college.
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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