Admissions & selectivity
University of Illinois Springfield Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at UIS?
UIS’s reported acceptance rate is 85.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 85.9%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of Illinois Springfield admitted 85.9% of applicants in the reported entering class, a rate that matches the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). That comparison puts its reported admission outcome in line with similar institutions, without indicating how any individual application will be decided.
What SAT and ACT scores do UIS students report?
At University of Illinois Springfield, submitted test scores give a practical view of the academic range among enrolled score submitters, rather than an admission floor. Among enrolled students who submitted scores, the middle half—scores from the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles—ran from SAT 940 to 1,200 and from ACT 21 to 27.
These ranges describe score submitters, not every enrolled student, and they do not establish minimums for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at UIS. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 940
- 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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at UIS?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 37.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 63.9%
- First-year retention
- 74.8%
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.
Transfer pathways are a major part of attendance at University of Illinois Springfield, where an estimated 63.9% of undergraduates enter after beginning coursework elsewhere. Undergraduate enrollment is 2,263, and Pell Grant recipients account for 37.4% of undergraduates.
This mix suggests a campus serving many people continuing prior college work alongside undergraduates using federal grant aid. These figures describe enrolled undergraduates and estimated entry routes, rather than admission priorities.
The persistence picture is above peer reference points, though Pell recipients have a lower completion rate than the overall first-time full-time cohort. For full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students, the retention rate is 74.8%, above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions.
The first-time full-time cohort’s six-year graduation rate is 53.2%, above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 48.1%, below the overall rate by 5.1 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention and completion measures above peer medians, alongside a lower completion figure for Pell recipients.
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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