Admissions & selectivity
University of Arizona Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Arizona?
Arizona’s reported acceptance rate is 86.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 86.1%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Arizona admits 86.1% of applicants, above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Arizona students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted scores, the middle 50% of SAT scores ranges from 1,150 to 1,420, and the middle 50% of ACT scores ranges from 21 to 29. These ranges describe the enrolled class, not minimum requirements.
Applicants can use the 1,150 and 1,420 SAT figures, or the 21 and 29 ACT figures, as a benchmark for the academic profile of recent entering students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Arizona. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1150
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1420
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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Arizona?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 25.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 26.3%
- First-year retention
- 82.8%
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 Arizona is a public university in Tucson, Arizona, enrolling 42,537 undergraduates. Pell Grant recipients make up 25.7% of the student body, and an estimated 26.3% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students.
That composition points to a campus where federal grant aid and transfer pathways are both common entry points, rather than one defined by a single route.
Among first-time, full-time students, 82.8% return for a second year, close to the peer median of 83.1%. The six-year graduation rate for that cohort is 67.5%, above the peer median of 65.0%.
Pell Grant recipients in the same entering cohort complete at a rate of 55.5%, below the overall six-year rate. Enrolled students can expect a university where the majority of first-year students persist, and where graduation outcomes for the entering class as a whole exceed those of comparable institutions.
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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