Admissions & selectivity
University of Nevada-Reno Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at UNR?
UNR’s reported acceptance rate is 73.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 73.7%
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 Nevada-Reno Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of Nevada-Reno admits 73.7% of applicants, a rate that sits close to the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 19,136 first-year applicants and 15,908 admitted applicants, with 3,747 enrolling.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled UNR students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, University of Nevada-Reno reported that 61% of its entering class submitted ACT scores. The middle half of those ACT submitters scored from 18 to 25.
Among the 16% who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored from 1060 to 1280. Far more of the entering class submitted ACT scores than SAT scores, so the ACT range describes more of the class.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at UNR. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
16% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1060
- Median
- 1170
- 75th percentile
- 1280
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
61% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 18
- Median
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 25
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: University of Nevada-Reno Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at UNR?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 22.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 25.0%
- First-year retention
- 79.7%
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 Nevada-Reno enrolls undergraduates through both direct entry and transfer routes, with Pell Grant recipients making up 22.9% of undergraduates. Federal enrollment data count 15,599 undergraduates, and an estimated 25.0% entered as transfers or part-time students, so the undergraduate population includes people arriving with different college histories.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 3,063 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 1,955 admitted, and 1,073 enrolled. The federal composition figures and the reported transfer counts both show that transfer entry is a visible part of the undergraduate population.
At University of Nevada-Reno, the available persistence measures sit below the middle result for comparable institutions, so enrolled students should expect completion to require sustained progress. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 61.2%, compared with a peer median of 65.0% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
First-year retention among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students is 79.7%, versus 83.1% at those peers. Pell recipients in the cohort complete within six years at 62.8%, above the overall rate by 1.6 percentage points.
The peer comparison is lower on both persistence measures, even though Pell completion is higher than the overall completion figure.
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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