Admissions & selectivity
University of Colorado Colorado Springs Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Colorado Colorado Springs?
University of Colorado Colorado Springs’s reported acceptance rate is 97.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 97.4%
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
University of Colorado Colorado Springs admits 97.4% of applicants, a figure that sits above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Colorado Colorado Springs students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted scores, the middle half of SAT submitters scored between 1,010 and 1,220. For ACT submitters, the middle half scored between 20 and 26.
These ranges describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled students who provided scores, not minimums for admission. An applicant whose scores fall within or above these bands can use them as one point of reference, alongside grades and course rigor, when deciding whether to apply.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1010
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1220
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 University of Colorado Colorado Springs?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 37.8%
- First-year retention
- 68.3%
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.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs enrolls 8,697 undergraduates, with 27.3% receiving Pell Grants. An estimated 37.8% of the student body arrives as transfers or part-time students, so a large share of the campus did not start here.
The admission rate is 97.4%, above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Pell-eligible applicants should use the net price calculator to estimate their grant-adjusted cost.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, 68.3% return for a second year, below the peer median of 73.7%. The six-year graduation rate is 46.9%, against a peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 47.9%, which is 1.0 percentage points above the overall rate. The gap is small and runs in the direction of Pell students finishing at a slightly higher rate.
The retention number suggests that the first year is a point of departure for a significant share of the class.
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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