Admissions & selectivity
University of Kansas Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Kansas?
University of Kansas’s reported acceptance rate is 93.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 93.5%
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 Kansas admits 93.5% of applicants, a rate that sits well above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Most students who apply are offered a place.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Kansas students report?
The middle half of SAT scores from enrolled submitters ran from 1,070 to 1,300. The middle half of ACT scores from enrolled submitters ran from 20 to 28.
Those ranges describe recent submitters, not cutoffs for admission. Prospective students can measure their own SAT and ACT results against the university's 1,070 to 1,300 and 20 to 28 ranges.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 26% of enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank placed in the upper tenth of their high school class. Among that same group, 53% ranked in the upper quarter and 84% in the upper half. 53% of the entering class reported a rank.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Kansas. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1070
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1300
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
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Kansas?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 20.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 19.5%
- First-year retention
- 86.5%
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 Kansas enrolls 21,217 undergraduates. Pell Grant recipients make up 20.5% of the student body, and an estimated 19.5% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 26% of enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank were in the highest tenth of their high-school class. The share in the highest quarter was 53%. About 53% of the entering class reported a rank.
The six-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time students is 68.8%, above the peer median of 65.0%. The first-year retention rate of 86.5% also sits above the peer median of 83.1%.
Both figures point in the same direction: students who start at the university tend to stay and finish at rates that exceed comparable institutions. Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate of 50.8%, which is below the overall six-year rate by 18.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a university where persistence and completion run ahead of the peer benchmarks, though the experience differs by financial background.
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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