Admissions & selectivity
University of Maryland-Baltimore County Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Maryland-Baltimore County?
University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s reported acceptance rate is 72.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 72.4%
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.
Source: University of Maryland-Baltimore County Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of Maryland-Baltimore County admits 72.4% of applicants, a rate that sits below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 14,802 first-year applicants and admitted 10,949, with 2,271 enrolling.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled University of Maryland-Baltimore County students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-time, first-year students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1250 and 1400. 33% of enrolled first-time, first-year students submitted SAT scores.
For the ACT, the middle half of submitters scored from 26 to 31, though only 3% of enrolled first-time, first-year students submitted ACT scores. These ranges describe enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not admission cutoffs.
Among enrolled first-time, first-year students with a reported class rank, 21% graduated in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 53% in the highest quarter. Applicants can use the university's own 1250 to 1400 SAT range and the class-rank shares as context for the profile of recent enrolled students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
33% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1250
- Median
- 1320
- 75th percentile
- 1400
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
3% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 26
- Median
- 28
- 75th percentile
- 31
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: University of Maryland-Baltimore County Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at University of Maryland-Baltimore County?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 30.0%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 26.4%
- First-year retention
- 85.1%
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 Maryland-Baltimore County enrolls 10,701 undergraduates, with 30.0% receiving Pell Grants. An estimated 26.4% enter as transfers or part-time students, so the campus draws from more than one entry route.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 14,802 first-year applicants, 10,949 admitted, and 2,271 enrolled. For transfer students, it reported 1,963 applicants, 1,635 admitted, and 874 enrolled.
Pell-eligible students should check the typical price paid by families in their income bracket after grants and scholarships.
Students who start full time at University of Maryland-Baltimore County persist and complete at rates that run ahead of comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate is 85.0%, and the six-year graduation rate is 70.0%.
The peer medians for institutions of the same type and size are 83.1% and 65.0%. Pell Grant recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 64.1%, which is 5.9 percentage points below the overall rate.
Enrolled students can expect a campus where most who start return, and where Pell students finish within a few points of the overall rate.
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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