Admissions & selectivity
University of Central Florida Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at UCF?
UCF’s reported acceptance rate is 40.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 40.1%
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: University of Central Florida Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Central Florida admits 40.1% of applicants, well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university received 59,629 first-year applicants, admitted 25,522, and enrolled 8,103.
What SAT and ACT scores do UCF students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 33% placed in the highest tenth of their high school class. 68% placed in the highest quarter, and 94% placed in the upper half.
These figures describe students who submitted a rank, not the entire entering class. The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores ranged from 1,200 to 1,350.
For ACT submitters, the middle half ranged from 25 to 29. These ranges reflect recent enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not minimums for admission.
Applicants can compare their own scores with the university's SAT range of 1,200 to 1,350 and its ACT range of 25 to 29.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at UCF. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1200
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1350
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
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at UCF?
UCF admitted 40.1% of applicants in the Fall 2024 reporting period. Among enrolled students who submitted ACT scores, the reported range was 25–29.
The SAT chart’s endpoints of 1,200 and 1,350 are approximate: they add section percentiles and are not verified composite-score percentiles. A score inside either range does not establish eligibility or predict admission.
UCF’s Pell Grant share was 32.3% in 2023–24. Its historical first-generation measure was 35.3%, based on pooled 2015–16 and 2016–17 cohorts.
These figures offer context about the populations UCF has served, while the admission rate describes applicants in a separate reporting period.
The 53.4% entering-student measure needs particular care: it covers entrants outside the first-time, full-time group, not transfers alone. It cannot establish that most UCF students transferred in.
First-year retention was 92.3% for the Fall 2023 cohort. Use the current university requirements to assess your application route, and the historical figures to understand the groups behind this profile.
- Pell Grant recipients
- 32.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 53.4%
- First-year retention
- 92.3%
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 Central Florida is a public university in Orlando, enrolling 59,146 undergraduates. An estimated 53.4% of the student body arrives as transfers or part-time students, and 32.3% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.
The campus is defined by multiple entry points rather than a single first-year path. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 59,629 first-year applicants, 25,522 admitted, and 8,103 enrolled.
For transfer students, the counts were 12,709 applicants, 8,826 admitted, and 5,870 enrolled.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class returned at 93%. The same filing shows a six-year graduation rate of 78.0% for the first-time, full-time fall 2019 entering class, with Pell recipients there graduating at 75.0%, below the overall rate.
Federal data show 92.3% of full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students returning after the first year, a figure above the median of 83.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). For the first-time full-time cohort, 78.0% finish within six years, exceeding the median of 65.0% at comparable institutions.
Pell recipients in the federal first-time full-time cohort complete at 56.3%, trailing the overall cohort rate by 21.7 percentage points.
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.